Loading…Loading…Loading…We value your privacy
We use cookies and ads to keep CinEvo free. You can accept or decline personalized ads.
Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with his provocative works. In 2013, Hirschhorn built a monument for Italian philosopher and communist Antonio Gramsci in a public housing project in the Bronx. The contentious artist collaborated with neighborhood residents whose everyday life is impacted by poverty, unemployment and crime. Conflicts and misunderstandings are bound to arise as Hirschhorn’s absolute devotion to art is confronted with the resident’s lack of prospects and fatalistic outlooks. The «Gramsci Monument» becomes a summer-long experiment where diverse worlds collide: blacks and whites, the art elite and street kids, party people and poets, politicians and philosophers. A nuanced film about art, politics and passion.
January 29, 2015
SRF, soap factory
1 person
Thomas Hirschhorn
Himself
Directing
2000
2004
2017
2013
2018
2006
2012
2004
2025
2006
2018
2022
2020
2022
2012
1968
2016
2011
2024
1996
2016
1990
2006
2013
2002
2012
2020
2023
1977
1993
2003
1994
2017
2023
2012
2026
2008
2007