Alfredo Jaar Chilean, b. 1956
Self Portrait, 1977
Pigment print
Print: 142.2 x 142.2 cm (56 x 56 in)
Frame: 152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in)
Frame: 152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in)
Edition 2 of 3 + 2 AP
Further images
Produced five years after the coup, the early self portraits of Jaar as a young artist are anguished and pained. Jaar used binary computer code to generate nine different poses...
Produced five years after the coup, the early self portraits of Jaar as a young artist are anguished and pained. Jaar used binary computer code to generate nine different poses and facial expressions which range from the neutral to hand gestures to emanate feelings of grief and pain. Approaching Jaar’s self-portrait as a young artist, his collaborator and friend, the Chilean writer Adriana Valdés has asked three questions: ‘How does a young man, so young, live through such times? How does he manage to see himself? What can he do?’.
Provenance
Direct from artist's studioExhibitions
Estudios Sobre la Felicidad, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014
Alfredo Jaar: The Way It Is. An Aesthetics of Resistance. NGBK, Berlinische Galerie & Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Publications
Alfredo Jaar: The way it is. An Aesthetics of Resistance. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), 2012.
Alfredo Jaar: Estudios Sobre la Felicidad. Exhibition catalogue. Buenos Aires: SALA PAyS Parque de la Memoria, 2014.