Boris Groys is a key contemporary German thinker and writer, his reflections on contemporary art developed in some important essays like Art Power (2008); Going Public (2010); Introduction to Antiphilosophy and Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media (2012).
We had the opportunity to discuss with Boris Groys some aspects of these books. Some of these topics constitute a core theme that also substantiates both the subsequent philosophical and curatorial productions of the author, as for as Utopia. In the introduction of Going Public, for instance, Boris Groys refers to the aesthetic experience “of a utopian vision that could lead away from present conditions to a new society in which beauty reigns”. In the essay on modern design and its reductionism at the beginning of the twentieth century, however, he speaks of the “redesigning the old man into the New Man”. A project that today “continues to have an >>>