Ruth Asawa All Is Possible /anglais - Couverture rigide

Asawa, Ruth/moleswort

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 164423078X ISBN 13 : 9781644230787

Editeur : David Zwirner, 2022

Synopsis

Ruth Asawa All Is Possible, 9781644230787

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

The American artist, educator, and arts advocate Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is known for her extensive body of wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form through their emphasis on lightness and transparency. Over the course of more than a half century, Asawa created a cohesive body of sculptures and works on paper that, in their innovative use of material and form, deftly synthesizes a wide range of aesthetic preoccupations at the heart of postwar art in America.

Makeda Best is a curator, writer, and historian of American photography. Since 2016, she has served as the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a MFA in studio photography from CalArts.

Taylor Davis is a visual artist living in Boston. Davis has exhibited widely, with work included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Honors include a Rauschenberg Residency, a Radcliffe Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the ICA Boston Foster Prize. Davis is a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and co-chair and faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Ruth Erickson is the Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, where she has curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including solo projects with the artists Kevin Beasley, Mark Dion, Wangechi Mutu, Tschabalala Self, and Vivian Suter, as well as traveling group exhibitions on Black Mountain College. She has edited and contributed to multiple exhibition catalogues, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, and has presented and published her work widely. She received an MA and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2022 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow.

Briony Fer is an art historian who has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Her research interests have consistently moved between the history of the avant-gardes and the work of contemporary artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Roni Horn, Vija Celmins, and Tacita Dean. Her books include On Abstract Art (1997), The Infinite Line (2004), Eva Hesse: Studiowork (2009), and Gabriel Orozco: thinking in circles (2013). She cocurated the Anni Albers retrospective, with Maria Muller-Schareck and Ann Coxon, at Tate Modern and K20 Dusseldorf in 2018. She is a professor of the history of art at University College London and a fellow of the British Academy.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Known for her intricate and distinct artistic language, Asawa produced numerous sculptures, drawings, and prints that are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. Her works on paper and “continuous” looped-wire sculptures suggest a field of fluctuating positive and negative forms, a means of reshaping how we perceive the world. Personal motifs reappear throughout in the most comprehensive look at the artist’s oeuvre to date––ceramic casts of faces of her family, friends, and neighbors; the carved front door Asawa and her family made for their home; and drawings of her children, grandchildren, and husband sleeping––all providing an expansive look into the artist’s life.

A document of the breathtaking and surprising exhibition Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible, organized by Helen Molesworth, this book records and expands upon the show, offering new insight from writers and curators with a selection of sixty-four works from Asawa’s spectacular oeuvre. With an introduction by Molesworth, this book features focused texts from Makeda Best, Taylor Davis, Ruth Erickson, Briony Fer, Jennifer L. Roberts, and John Yau.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David Zwirner
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164423078X
• ISBN 13: 9781644230787
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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