Thomas Hirschhorn: 10 years Gramsci Monument Celebration

Celebration will take place at Forest Houses on September 16^th from 3 to 7 PM

The “10-years Gramsci Monument" celebration is an important event. It is important because the idea, the initiative, and the desire to celebrate the memory of the "Gramsci Monument" 10 years after its venue in 2013, comes from Forest Houses. Precisely from Erik Farmer, President of the Forest Houses Tenants Association, who 10 years ago, was already the 'key-figure' of this work of art, during its creation and its daily production. This Celebration is also important for me, as the artist who created the work, for Yasmil Raymond, the project-curator and for Dia Art Foundation, the producer of the work. This celebration testifies and proves after 10 years, the power that this artwork has—precarious as it was in its form—through the density of its memory and the ramifications of its outcome. The "Gramsci Monument" is therefore a sustainable, eternal artwork. Okwui Enwezor once told me: "There is a time for work and there is a time for the celebration of the work."

 

Thomas Hirschhorn

Sep 16, 2023