Spectres of Marx

Artist Bruce Barber
Period 2014-15
Length 10 min 26 sec
Country Italy / Canada / New Zealand
Tags
Format Digital Video / Silent

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A time lapse video of a performance produced for the exhibition Personal Structures: Crossing Borders (2015) at at Palazzo Mora Venice, Italy. The work consists of a mural painting Spectres of Marx, which Barber paints, then erases, leaving only the figure of Antonio Gramsci remaining.

Read an essay on this work by Mark Williams. 

Credits: 

Personal Structures: Crossing Borders was curated by Rene Rietmeyer, Valeria Romagnini and Rachele De Stefano of the non-profit Dutch based Global Art Affairs Foundation. Spectres of Marx is accompanied by an 80 page catalogue with an essay by Marc James Leger.