Among other contributors to the catalogue, Pierre Gaudibert also condemned “the symbolic violence of the Western world” and Mark Francis ironically stigmatized the “condescending position” of those who had excluded non-Western artists from their museums for so long. Interestingly, in each case, the planisphere was reoriented in such a way that the referent dot remained at the center. It also included references to the 104 exhibited artists, presented in an unusual manner: the two pages allocated to each artist offered biographies and reproductions of works, as well a small planisphere indicating their geographical location. This unusual catalogue, formatted akin to an atlas, appeared to be a radical manifesto against the iniquities of the Western world, offering a body of political texts, photos, illustrations, and collages. “The common statement that artistic production can only exist in the Western world can be blamed on the arrogance of our culture,” wrote Jean-Hubert Martin, chief curator of the Magiciens de la Terre exhibition, in the catalogue.
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