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389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Exhibition venues: May 13-November 26, 2017, Swiss Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice; January 21-May 6, 2018, National Museum of Art, Osaka; January 20-April 7, 2019, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; March 1-May 24, 2019, Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich; April 5-June 9, 2019, Giacometti Foundation Institute, Paris; August 27-December 8, 2019, National Museum of Art, Osaka; September 20, 2019-April 5, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; September 5, 2021-January 15, 2022, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. |
| Contents |
Exhibition venues -- Foreword / Philipp Kaiser -- Flora in Los Angeles, Redux / Stephanie Barron -- At the edge of the frame / a conversation between Philipp Kaiser, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora : film sequences and dialogue -- The matter of recognition / Maeve Connolly -- Giving voice, forming body : conversation between Christina Végh, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora Lewis Mayo, chronology / Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler -- Production -- Production and research credits -- Contributor biographies -- German translations -- Acknowledgments. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
In the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, the Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) presented 'Flora' and 'Bust', exploring the life of the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, with whom Alberto Giacometti had a love affair in Paris in the 1920s. While Giacometti is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, Mayo's oeuvre has been destroyed, her biography relegated to a footnote in Giacometti scholarship. In this work, which had its American premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2019, Hubbard / Birchler reframe Mayo's history through a feminist perspective that interweaves reconstruction, reenactment, and documentary into a hybrid form of storytelling. Flora, a double-sided film installation, is conceived as a conversation between Mayo and her son, David, whom the artists discovered living near Los Angeles. The work generates a multifaceted dialogue between a mother and son, Mayo and Giacometti, Paris and Los Angeles, and past and present. This illustrated book depicts the journey of Hubbard / Birchler's process and is accompanied by a transcript of the film installation, a visual chronology of Flora Mayo's life, and conversations with the artists. |
| Language |
Text in English and German. |
| Subject |
Hubbard, Teresa, 1965- Flora.
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Birchler, Alexander, 1962- Flora.
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Hubbard, Teresa, 1965- -- Interviews.
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Birchler, Alexander, 1962- -- Interviews.
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Mayo, Flora Luella Lewis, 1898-1972 -- In art -- Exhibitions.
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Film installations (Art) -- Exhibitions.
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Artists and models in art -- Exhibitions.
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Barron, Stephanie, contributor.
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Kaiser, Philipp, 1972- interviewer.
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Connolly, Maeve, contributor.
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Végh, Christina, interviewer.
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Birchler, Alexander, 1962- artist, interviewee.
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Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy)
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Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (Japan)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Sammlung Goetz.
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Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.
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Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Flora redux.
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Flora redux. German.
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| ISBN |
9781942185598 (hardcover) |
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1942185596 (hardcover) |
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