Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks - Couverture rigide

Wearing, Gillian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0892075589 ISBN 13 : 9780892075584

Editeur : Guggenheim Museum, 2021

Synopsis

From prescient proto-selfies to COVID and AI: the democratic portraiture of Gillian Wearing
One of the most influential conceptual artists of her generation, Gillian Wearing first gained recognition in the 1990s for groundbreaking photographs and videos that recorded the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriended through chance encounters. In its candor and psychological intensity, her work extends the traditions of portraiture initiated by Sander, Weegee and Arbus. Yet in her ongoing attention to technology’s role in the presentation of self, Wearing has presciently identified defining aspects of contemporary ual ture, from reality teleion to the rise of the selfie.
Published for Wearing’s first North American retrospective, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks traces the acclaimed artist’s practice from her earliest Polaroids and videos to her most recent production, including large-scale photographic self-portraits of Wearing in the guise of other artists; a more intimate body of self-portraits titled Lockdown ; and installations and commissioned public spture. Essays by co-curators Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman provide an overw of Wearing’s oeuvre, and a “self-interw” by Wearing offers a revealing firsthand account of the artist’s practice, including her ongoing project Your ws (2013–), in which she has recently responded to the pandemic, and her exploration of AI technology in the video work Wearing, Gillian (2018).

Gillian Wearing (born 1963) became associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs) after graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1990, and went on to win the Turner Prize in 1997. She works equally in photography, video, spture, installation and, most recently, painting.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guggenheim Museum
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0892075589
• ISBN 13: 9780892075584
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible