Swoon - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0977868664 ISBN 13 : 9780977868667

Editeur : Deitch Projects, 2008

Synopsis

When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York's Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like Newsday, raved--crediting her intricate paper cut-outs and hand-pulled block prints of realistically-rendered street people (often friends and family doing ordinary things) with depicting no less than "the poetry of urban life." Her figures, according to Newsday, are rendered with "breathtaking precision [and] radiate humanity and compassion." Most people know of Swoon through her wheat-pasted cut-outs, which have appeared throughout New York for the better part of the last decade. Usually seen in a state of decay, they are powerful time-based public artworks that only get more potent as they age. For the past two years, Swoon has been traveling the world, creating exhibitions and workshops. Published to accompany the artist's highly anticipated fall 2008 exhibition at Deitch's Long Island City project space, this first monograph documents exhibitions from 2005 to 2007, as well as collaborations created in Russia, Ukraine and throughout the United States.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This monograph is the first to explore the work of the street artist Swoon, drawing readers into her imaginative world and showcasing the full range of her artistic practices, from street art to studio work and junkyard boats to spontaneous street parties. Arranged around a loose chronology, the book focuses first on her street art: life-size prints and paper cutouts of figures that take on a new life as natural elements slowly erode and destroy the paper. The same faces she once pasted on the street corners of New York starting ten years ago begin to appear in gallery spaces and in installations that have been exhibited around the world. Also included are her most recent and highly publicised projects, the Swimming Cities, created by scavenging junk to craft makeshift steamships that are part floating artwork, part performance and part experiments in communal living. With the help of friends and volunteers, Swoon launched a group of these riverboats first down the Mississippi River, then the Hudson River and in June of 2009 into Venice for the Biennale. Also featured are images of her art collective Toyshop, which orchestrates a form of organic public theater that could include anything from a ragtag band patrolling Manhattan's Lower East Side to a pirate takeover of the Staten Island ferry. The texts include essays from fellow artists and collaborators such as famed gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, playwright Lisa D'Amour, writer and activist Rollo Romig and artist Jeff Stark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Deitch Projects
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0977868664
• ISBN 13: 9780977868667
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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