Sense of Humor

[from the "blurb": ]
Humor, dressed as irony, as biting criticism, as disguised rudeness or visual ingenuity, has been present in art for a long time, but the difference is that today the framework for art has expanded to such an extent that virtually everything fits. Artistic media and materials, especially photography and video, have broadened their possibilities of direct expression or subtle strategy so that humor has benefited and has been reinvented progressively as a narrative element.
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In this issue of EXIT, in addition to the articles by Rosa Olivares, Jose Maria Parreno, Luis Francisco Perez and Ana Vigara, more than 20 international artists offer diverse approaches to sense of humor through their works. The two main artists pose very different ways of facing the world with a smile. Never with a burst of laughter. Teun Hocks' melancholic gaze, which is inevitably linked to painting and surrealism, contrasts with the post-colonial irony linked to sculpture, film and performance, with which Erwin Wurm expresses a critique of contemporary society and (why not?) contemporary artistic forms themselves.
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And there are more artists: Anna & Bernhard Blume, Olaf Breuning, Miguel Calderon, Carles Congost, Wim Delvoye, Elliot Erwitt, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Pedro G. Romero, Tybor Gienis, Karen Knorr, Peter Land, Marcos Lopez, Urs Luthi, Isaac Montoya, Yoshua Okon, Martin Parr, Plonk & Replonk, Liliana Porter, Philippe Ramette, Paul M. Smith and William Wegman all participate in this volume full of humor and irony, demonstrating to us that every one of them laughs or smiles at what they want and with what they can.
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