In BeauxArts magazine, Maïlys Celeux-Lanval writes on Alfredo Jaar's exhibition at the gallery La Fin du Monde.
He worked on it for five years. He invested time, money, sweat, and extraordinary energy to find each of the ten materials used in the final sculpture. And yet it is tiny, taking the form of a cube just four centimeters high…
Exhibited—alone, absolutely alone—on a pedestal in the middle of the 1,000 square meters of the gigantic Valérie Bach Gallery in Brussels (a former ice rink), La Fin du monde by Alfredo Jaar (born in 1956) is probably the most impressive work you will see these days in the Belgian capital.
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