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Essay / Analysis of the exhibition Les...
Martin presented a vision of the world that was still incomplete but broader and it was therefore necessary to develop corresponding understandings. O'Neill (2012) highlights how The Magicians' representations of otherness took the approach of postmodernist pluralism (p. 57), highlighting the diversity and difference that aligns with a global art world of a much broader scope. By opening the field of the art world, the Western gaze is slowly but radically evolving to understand this awareness of what contemporary art was defined as on a global scale. An example of the opening of opportunities that followed can be drawn from Alfredo Jaar's (2014) reflections on the progress made since The Magicians. Jaar commented on how he found New York "provincial" upon his arrival from Santiago, Chile in 1982. The city was considered a "capital" of art but was completely absorbed in its own production and being originally from Chile , it was impossible for him to operate outside. minority areas. His view is that The Magicians shattered this central Euro-American vision and that the more global art world in which it can now exist is the result of these breakthroughs in what he calls "Western art". ยป.