Fiona Banner, Brognon Rollin, Jack Goldstein, Jenny Holzer, Kay Rosen, Michaela Spiegel - Art Basel Paris - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -

On the occasion of documenta 7 in 1982, Jack Goldstein wrote an aphoristic essay that began with the assertion that 'the media are sensational'. Today we might even say that they are sensationalist, designed to provoke intense attention and emotion.

The artist also points out that media technology can replace our own experience. He writes: 'Technology does everything for us, so that we no longer have to function in terms of experience, but in terms of aesthetics. Art then becomes a means of countering this world entirely controlled by the media'.

We will be showing works that could provoke astonishment, amazement, stupor and questioning, such as:

Fiona Banner's Heart of Darkness,

Brognon Rollin's Tell The Dogs,

Jack Goldstein's Aphorisms: If he doesn't know what to do?

Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays, x 20,

Kay Rosen's The Man,

Michaela Spiegel's Pol 6.104.

But all of them will enable us to regain control of reason... and to reason.

All these works question the philosophy of science, social philosophy, contemporary communication theory and the arts. They speak to us directly, and beyond the collapse of reality, they may well enable us to rebuild the world.