Taking the form of a multilingual collage, it involves a group of children chanting excerpts from European treaties, free-trade agreements, and national anthems, evoking Regional Education also includesĪ sound work presented at the exhibition’s entrance. In reference to the current events of the European Union, Magnus Andersen gives the role of adult educator to Martin Selmayr, the European Commission’s current Secretary-General.

Of certain skills in children and the crucial role of education. On two paintings by British artists Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, renowned 18th-century portrait and landscape painters, Regional Education echoes the theories developed a century earlier by British philosopher John Locke on the innate nature In his Regional Education series, young people on the threshold of adulthood seem to be reflecting deeply on their place in society and the role The subject of education is central to the work of Magnus Andersen, who is interested in the values that unite us and which are transmitted to younger generations. This film is a reflectionon the meaning of artistic creation and the power struggle between the sexes.īorn in 1987, in Elsinore, Denmark, he lives and works in Brussels. (and a pioneer of psychoanalysis), in theįorm of a male phallus. In A Brief History of Princess X, Gabriel Abrantes tells the story of the creation of Princess X,Ī work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși that portrays Princess Marie Bonaparte, Napoleon’s great-grand niece With the arrival of migrants near his yacht, His first feature film, Diamantino, portrays a star football player,Ī hero in Portugal, whose athletic brilliance ends the day he finds himself confronted Although many of his films humorously revisit the works of the major figures of European culture such as Édouard Manet, William Shakespeare or the great Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, Gabriel Abrantes also explores contemporary crisesĪnd global pop culture. Gabriel Abrantes writes, directs and oftenĪcts in films that explore gender and identity issues and shatter historical assumptionsĪnd traditional politics. Born in 1984, in North Carolina, United States, he lives and works in Lisbon.

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