Goethe Universität Frankfurt: ‘Monument and mobility´

The Goethe University of Frankfurt is hosting the symposium ´Monument and mobility´ within the framework of the Eduardo Chillida Chair, promoted by the Etxepare Basque Institute.

This symposium addresses the notion of the monument, as a fundamental concept of sculpture as well as a site of political controversy, and its signi­ficance in recent art.

The speakers are Christian Berger (Goethe Universität Frankfurt), Rhea Dehn Tutosaus (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Heather Diack (University of Miami), Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph) and Elixabete Ansa (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Ansa will give the conference about Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza: ‘Jorge Oteiza in/from Latin America: A Proposal Beyond Monumentality’.