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| Information versus aesthetics
The realisation that the work of art is not an isolated event, and the interrelations between art and society and between art institutions and power, are among the premises with which Kynaston McShine curated the exhibition Information which was held in 1970 at MoMA in New York. The title was not by chance. As Hans Haacke stated in an interview in 1971,(1) information presented at the right time and in the right place is potentially highly effective; a hardly gratuitous statement if we think that shortly before the Guggenheim Museum had refused to include Haacke’s Shapolsky. Not on Value of Real Estate but on the "Real" Value (1971) in a show. In this work, Haacke, showed the control of property speculation in the hands of a single New York family, using information taken from the city property register.
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