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Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, The Ambassador's Diary

Text by Claire Bishop, Text by Vittoria Martini, Text by Thomas Hirschhorn, Text by Lisa Lee, Text by Mignon Nixon, Text by Marcus Steinweg, Designed by Neil Holt

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The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdamâ€™s south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its â€œAmbassadorâ€, art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this â€œprecariousâ€ work. A term Hirschhorn sees as positive and creative: a means of asserting the importance of the moment and of the place, of asserting the Here and Now to touch eternity and universality. Appreciating the art historianâ€™s presence as a central element of his sculpture, Hirschhorn consciously challenged the certainties of the profession by empowering and activating the role, thus leading Martini to find a new working methodology that she calls â€œprecarious art historyâ€. Accompanying the readers through her experience of the physical existence of The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, Martiniâ€™s commentary leads to the profound understanding of how a work that no longer exists physically, can live on in the mindâ€” elsewhere, at some other timeâ€”because in the meantime it has become universal.

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