Chen Zhen
Andreas Gursky
Julie Mehretu
Alfredo Jaar
Mark Lombardi
Globalization reflects a post cold war world that has been radically monetized and encouraged by technology. Like art, globalization is about communication. What many of these artists are communicating is a contradiction of loss during a bountiful period. The individual is being rendered anonymous, a sense of alienation abounds. Alfredo Jaar, Julie Mehretu, Mark Lombardi, and Andreas Gursky point to the larger powers of finance and policy. The struggle for identity and individual values that were so important through much of the Twentieth Century are now subsumed by broader forces. Economics has a great deal to do with the shifting global structure and the pluralistic art scene. With the rise of the BRIC's (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) American hegemony is coming to an end. Eurocentric dominance is shifting to include the previously overlooked. Are these other cultures really overlooked? Or is it exponent of assimilation, we only perceive them to be overlooked because of our position?
A globalized world infers decentralization, unilateral negotiation, lack of consensus.
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