Jean-Marie Wynants writes in Le Soir on Alfredo Jaar's exhibition La Fin du Monde.
In the center of the vast nave of the Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, a glass cube houses a unique artwork. A tiny work at the heart of an immense space, bathed in red light. A small cube measuring 4 × 4 × 4 cm, presented as a wonderfully precious jewel. And indeed, the elements that compose it are today among the most sought-after minerals on our planet Earth: ten thin layers of lithium, rare earths, cobalt, copper, tin, nickel, manganese, coltan, germanium, and platinum.
Ten minerals for a piece as sober and radical as it is unsettling, presented under an apocalyptic title: The End of the World.
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