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Lyon Contemporary Art Biennial addresses modernity

2015-09-11 9 Dailymotion

The Lyon contemporary art biennial, now a must-see event on the contemporary art scene, is open. <br /><br /> For this 13th edition under the theme “La vie moderne”, 60 artists from 30 different countries are offering visitors their personal view of the world with all its contradictions.<br /><br /> Ralph Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward Gallery, is the curator: “We know, obviously, that there is a big difference between information, which we are bombarded by all the of time, and meaning. <br /><br /> “A lot of information can be meaningless and art is really about creating possibilities for new meanings, and that is something that happens with the audience: it’s a dance, it’s a conversation. But artists, I think, one of the strengths of art in our culture is that it is a place where meanings can be generated,” he tells euronews correspondent Wolfgang Spindler. <br /><br /> Rugoff has taken on the challenge laid out by the biennial’s artistic director, Thierry Raspail, who instructed him to shape his curatorial vision ar

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