Vija Celmins - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3775760318 ISBN 13 : 9783775760317

Editeur : Hatje Cantz, 2025

Synopsis

More than 90 of Celmins' astonishing hyperrealistic paintings are contextualized with writings by the artist herself and by luminaries including Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Marlene Dumas

Latvian American artist Vija Celmins (born 1938) is a master of subtle visual power. She is best known for her captivating paintings and drawings depicting galaxies, surfaces of the moon, desert floors, oceans and spider webs. Her works are not monumental; they are painted with a restrained palette and defy quick viewing. But once you are involved with them, your gaze gets caught up in them and they unfold their fascination and great beauty. This monograph presents all her approximately 90 exhibited artworks as well as a selection of documentary photographs. Several commentaries by the artist on her works are included, most of them published for the first time. Contributions by renowned authors and artists such as Julian Bell, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, Marlene Dumas and Robert Gober provide new perspectives on the artist's impressive oeuvre.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vija Celmins (*1938 in Riga) emigrated to the United States with her family in the late 1940s. She studied painting and printmaking at the John Herron School of Art in Indiana and attended a summer course at Yale University in 1961 before earning a master's degree at UCLA. She has had solo exhibitions in numerous museums, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Houston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1996 she was introduced to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1997 she received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

Includes texts by Julian Bell, Jimena Canales, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, Marlene Dumas, Katie Farris, Robert Gober, Ilya Kaminsky, Glenn Ligon, James Lingwood, Andrew Winer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hatje Cantz
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3775760318
• ISBN 13: 9783775760317
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Vischer Theodora, Lingwoord James
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; contact@hatjecantz.de; ; Mommsenstraße 27; Berlin; 10629; Allemagne