[DIG_A.HIS.08294_030 / Enregistrament sonor] Set of works
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Enregistrament sonor
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[DIG_A.HIS.08294_030 / Enregistrament sonor] Set of works
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With his neon letters on the wall, Peter Friedl reminds us that writing is also a form of drawing. "Badly Organized" features the handwriting of Herbert Marcuse, a mentor of the student revolt of the 1960s and a colleague of Theodor W. Adorno at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. An American editor once turned down the English translation of Adorno’s book, "Philosophy of New Music", on the pretext that it was ‘badly organized’. Friedl aligns himself with those who argue that art should support life. As in his drawings, with this neon work of philosophical resonances and polysemic semantics open to multiple readings, the artist seems to be wondering how he can construct a subjectivity capable of exercising agency.

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