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Since the beginning of China's economic boom in the late 1980s and
its ever-increasing influence on globalized society, the country's
burgeoning contemporary art scene has attracted great attention
around the world. However, despite the Chinese art market's
emergence as a highly prolific industry and a growing international
recognition of contemporary art from China, there is a remarkable
lack of Chinese women artists represented in (inter-)national
exhibitions and publications. Stepping Out! is the first
comprehensive publication in 25 years to present a broadly
representative selection of the work of contemporary Chinese female
artists, including pioneering as well as emerging artists thus far
little known abroad. Through an enormous wealth of perspectives,
the artists reveal personal and social fears, contradictions, and
hopes in the tense field occupied by powerful tradition, and shed
light upon the search for identity both as a woman and as an artist
within a rapidly changing Chinese society. Stepping Out! features
more than 100 artworks by 27 artists born between 1960 and 1994
living in mainland China, including Wen Hui, Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao,
Xing Danwen, Yin Yiuzhen, Ma Qiusha, Xiao Lu, Luo Yang and Tong
Wenmin.
Wiebke Siem (1954 Kiel, DE – Berlin, DE) became known in the
1990s for extensive installations in which she alienated everyday
objects, such as pieces of clothing, shoes, bags, or toys, or
transformed them into oversized objects. Wiebke Siems uses pieces
of furniture, objects, and materials with domestic connotations and
whimsical, often puppet-like figures to create psychologically
charged installations that are as oppressive as they are humorous
and that raise questions about societal role models. Siem’s art
repeatedly employs a formal language and a mode of presentation
that refer to ethnological objects and collections. This enables
her to comment on Modernism’s problematic appropriation
strategies toward non-European art. In addition to borrowing motifs
from art and cultural history, Siem critically engages the
mechanisms of the male-dominated art business – a central theme
in her oeuvre.
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Andrea Fraser (Paperback)
Museum Der Moderne Salzburg; Text written by Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Fraser, Shannon Jackson, Sven Lutticken
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R1,155
R899
Discovery Miles 8 990
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Controversial, provocative, and at the same time poignantly
humorous. Andrea Fraser *1965 in Billings, Montana) is one of the
most influential and pioneering artists of her generation and has
been captivating her audience for more than thirty years. She
employs a wide range of media, including prints, photographs,
installations, and performances as well as texts and videos, time
and again reformulating the same question: what we all want from
art-the motivation behind Fraser's artistic production, how we view
it, and how the art market distributes it.The richly illustrated
catalogue allows tracing the artist for the first time from the
beginning of her career. It assembles the early Four Posters (1984)
as well as her famous performances, such as Museum Highlights
(1989), Inaugural Speech (1997), and Official Welcome (2001/03),
linking them with her most recent videos.Exhibition: Museum der
Moderne Salzburg, 21.3.-5.7.2015
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