Issa Mª Benítez Dueñas /// In conversation with Thomas Hirschhorn

Although Thomas Hirschhorn can be considered one of the paradigmatic artists of our time one could never say that he is a typical artist. Throughout his career he has developed a way of working, a particular aesthetic and an overall poetic that is both attractive and challenging for critics, viewers and collectors. If before him many artists devoted to political, social and critical subjects have been comfortably moulded and fitted into the art system, Hirschhorn has had, through his work, the ability and stubbornness to make the art system adapt to what we can call his modus operandi. Mercilessly even.