Jonas Staal
Jonas Staal utilizes the urban environment as an arena for opinion, conflict, and public debate, and renders the moral and mental limits of this public sphere visible with his controversial way of working. His work entails interventions in public space, exhibitions, lectures, and publications.
He always involves himself expressly in political issues and developments. Examples of his approach are 'Car Bomb,' and the 'Geert Wilders Works,' small altars with photos, funeral flowers, and tea lights that popped up in Rotterdam and The Hague in 2005. Staal wrote the manifesto 'Post Propaganda' in 2010, in which he argues that the relationship between politics and the art institution, is a relationship that's denied by both parties. With this text he further stimulated the discussion on art and politics, by making a plea for politicized art, and the 'artification' of politics.
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