Once Upon A Time - Couverture souple

Haacke, Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907317643 ISBN 13 : 9781907317644

Editeur : Black Dog Publishing London UK, 2013

Synopsis

This book focuses on Hans Haacke's 2010 site-specific work, Once Upon a Time... in the desacralised church of San Francesco in Como, Italy. Alongside the work Hans Haacke completed with students during his course as Visiting Professor at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in 2010. A new series in collaboration with Fondazione Antonio Ratti, each book focuses on the work of a different artist having contributed to the foundation s Summer School programme and its Advanced Course in Visual Arts. Black Dog Publishing start this series with the internationally acclaimed artists Hans Haacke and Susan Hiller. The books focus on the individual artists and their work, as addressed in and through the course. Hans Haacke's work defies easy categorisation. Throughout his career he has explored various mediums, from sculpture to painting, to installation and, sometimes, the express participation of the public. For the installation Once Upon a Time..., Haacke projected live five major Italian television channels into gaps in the badly damaged seventeenth century frescoes adorning the church's apse. These TV programmes are all under Silvio Berlusconi's control. The artist thus introduced continuously changing glimpses of Italy's contemporary corporate culture into scenes from the Bible and the life of a saint who is venerated because of his concern for the poor. Hans Haacke also exhibited two other works in response to the architecture of San Francesco: Wide White Flow and The Population meets St Francis, a reference to his permanent installation at the Berlin Reichstag. Once Upon a Time... presents the transcript of a talk by Hans Haacke during the Summer School, accompanied by an exploration of Berlusconi's impact on the Italian political and cultural landscape and an essay on St Francis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Hans Haacke is a native German artist who works mostly in the US. He has exhibited in many of the most important institutions in the US and abroad, including representing Germany at the 1993 Venice Biennale Pavilion and at Documenta 7.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Dog Publishing London UK
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907317643
• ISBN 13: 9781907317644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible