TRANSLATION

This catalogue was published on the occasion of Translation, a show with works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, organized by the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2006. After 20th-century modernism, which aspired to the international language of abstraction, artists of today seek to translate the particularities of their specific cultural identity and their social singularity into a contemporary language. It is a “translation” in both the literal sense of the word and in its original Latin implication of something “carried over” or “transferred”. The show, which was curated by graphic designers M/M (Paris), brings together major artworks by some of the leading artists of the last two decades, including Jeff Koons, Maurizio Cattelan, Vanessa Beecroft, Takashi Murakami, Mike Kelley, Shirin Neshat, Nari Ward, Liza Lou and many more. Plunged by M/M (Paris) into an unexpected multiform graphic context, essential works of art go through multiple “translations”.

Edited by:

M/M (Paris)

Year of publication:

2006

ISBN:

960-86973-5-2

Clothbound / 25,5 x 32,5 cm / 140 pages / 75 color