Museum of American Art (U.S.A.)
invited by Tirdad Zolghadr

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon

Courtesy de Museum of American Art
Avec le soutien de Sikkens-Vachon

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (UNITED STATES)
The Lyon Biennial is hosting an exhibition devoted to the Museum of American Art, an international programme for the promotion of American art launched in the 1950s and featured at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1955. Considered since the 1970s as no more than cultural propaganda, the exhibitions nonetheless had a marked influence on the European art scene, shifting the emphasis from “national schools” to the “international style”.

TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
born 1973 in Iran
Critic, documentary filmmaker and freelance curator, Tirdad Zolghadr contributed to the 10th Biennial of the Moving Image in Geneva (2003), co-organised the 7th Biennial in Sharjah (2005) and writes regularly for “Frieze”.