An electronic billboard installation with the words “This is Not America” overlaid on a map of the Americas will light up New York’s Times Square starting on Friday, 1 August. For 3 minutes each night, just before midnight, This Is Not America (A Logo for America), 1987, by the Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar will be displayed on 15 signs and 45 screens. Alfredo Jaars installation questions US cultural dominance. “The use of the word America in the USA, erroneously referring only to the USA and not to the entire continent, is a clear manifestation of the political, financial and cultural domination of the USA over the rest of the continent”, said Jaar. The work is part of the exhibition “Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today” (until 1 October) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. #art #culture #NewYork #America #museum #TimesSquare #USA #Chile #design #continent #billboard #LatinAmerica #Guggenheim
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:18:59 +0000