Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam - 17 definitions of paradox

These constructions are thus related to current as well as to future work, while their status as ?failures? is paradoxically enough both addressed and completely negated in a provocative manner.
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In particular he became fascinated by the paradox, especially in relation to the First World War, that such a gruesome battle could have been fought with what to our eyes seem such primitive means.
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The core of the works is the paradox that despite or perhaps because of the fact that the world is now within everyones reach through television, the Internet and cheap flights, our position as observer has only become more fragmentary.
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An aerial study of Las Vegas and the surrounding desert landscape, where the artist abstains from tourist clichés by accompanying the images with muffled sounds of explosions, and thus underscores the paradox of this entertainment capital, imperturbable in the face of the energy crisis and terrorist attacks.
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In Militant Bourgeois, Evans has sought explanations for this paradoxical state of affairs in Existential philosophy on the one hand and Dutch history on the other, particularly Amsterdams Golden Age when Rembrandt and his contemporaries found patrons amongst the newly rich merchants presiding over what was then the financial centre of the world.
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The starting point of this exhibition also stems from the paradox that tourism still involves romantic, if not paradisiacal imagery, whereas the tourist experience is actually shattered by all kinds of forces that haunt our daily lives: commercialism, gentrification, the complex entanglement of migration and tourist destinations, war, and fear of terrorism.
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