M9 Artist Kendell Geers - Monument (Fired Up) talk at Art 43 Basel: Art Salon

foto/photo: Kristof Vrancken

Saturday, June 16 - 6–6:30pm
Art Salon is a dense program of talks, panels, book signing and other presentations - often informal - by figures active in the international artworld. (Hall 1, Auditorium)

Art Salon takes place daily, Thursday, June 14 to Sunday, June 17, 2012.
Download the full program here


More about Kendell Geers
b. 1968, Johannesburg, South Africa; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Monument (Fired Up), 2012. Bronze and gas fire, 300 x 50 cm

Having been a passionate opponent of apartheid in his home country of South Africa, Kendell Geers’s highly political, confrontational and often iconoclastic sculptures and installations examine power structures, social injustices, and establishment values.

Monument (Fired Up) can be read in symbolic terms as a discredited beacon, and a warning light for skewed notions of ‘progress’ in the continuing industrial age.

Art Salon is curated by Maike Cruse.

Relevant links
E-Flux
Art Basel Art Salon
Kendell Geers on our Flickr-page