Martin Gantman "Empire: Davos"

AC Institute

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AC [Direct] I and II presents the first complete showing of Martin Gantman's new project "Empire: Davos." Each January the founder and President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Wachs, announces the opening of the Forum's annual conference with the words: "Welcome to Davos." The conference is populated with elite members who have been selected and invited from the worlds of business, politics and entertainment. They are there, ostensibly, to discuss issues of global importance with respect to improving the quality of life of the world's inhabitants and the ecological systems within which they reside.

"Empire: Davos" strives to portray in a discernible way the seemingly contradictory notions of bottom line economic performance and human benefit. Centered on Davos, Switzerland where the World Economic Forum conference is held, the work projects, as a device for representing the above notions, Davos as the capital of an economic empire, as was Rome its empire's capital. The project to date includes direct correspondences with heads of state and CEOs of international corporations and NGOs, two-dimensional works, a book and a revisited globe of the Earth.

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Schedule

from February 19, 2009 to March 14, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-02-19 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Martin Gantman

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