Abstract:In 1995, the Hayward Gallery in London organised an exhibition entitled Art and Power. The aim of the exhibition was to explore the 'totalitarian' aesthetics of a different era. With a sense of nostalgia for the lost utopias that only materialised into tormenting nightmares, the exhibition was filled with threatening pictures of dictators, oversized statues of sexless bodies and ephemeral pavilions celebrating the glory of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or Communist Soviet Union. In between, a reference to the S… Show more
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