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Sokunge (As If)
(Paperback)
Masimba Hwati; Designed by Baynham Goredema; Interview by Ryan Chokureva
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R922
Discovery Miles 9 220
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Swiss artist Heidi Bucher was a major feminist figure on the
international neoavantgarde art scene, whose work is characterized
by a unique performative, yet material concept of sculpture. As
early as the 1970s Bucher was experimenting with unusual materials
such as latex, breathing life into them. She would pour liquid
rubber onto surfaces and then pull it off again with great physical
force, literally coming to grips with the world of things she
experienced and pressing forward into psychological border zones.
By transforming materials in ways that were as radical as they were
sensual, she explored forms of human existence and how they are
embedded in societal and private power structures. This monograph
presents Bucher's oeuvre from her early days as a student in Zurich
in the 1940s, to her experimental phase in New York and Los Angeles
of the 1960s and 1970s, to her major works of "skinning"
architecture and people, all the way to the pieces she created
during her final years on Lanzarote.
An original and entertaining catalogue for a travelling exhibition
that has already been much talked about. The expressive power of
glass emerges from the pages of the Glasstrees catalogue, which
travelled from the Venice Biennale to the Museum of Art and Design
of New York in February 2012. The excellent colour photographs
illustrate the glass sculptures and installations by
internationally-acclaimed artists and designers, some of the most
important on the international scene, who for the occasion tackled
one of the arts to have made Venice famous throughout the world.
This catalogue will become a "must" for collectors, designers,
students and connoisseurs.
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