Annette Messager: Exhibition/Exposition - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3777423475 ISBN 13: 9783777423470

Casa editrice: Hirmer Verlag, 2015

Riassunto

Annette Messager’s installations create a visually stunning space for contemplation about the reconstitution of gender in contemporary society. Throughout a forty-year career, Messager has engaged with a variety of media: In the 1970s, she worked mainly in collaged and knitted works, with stuffed birds as a recurring motif. Later, she broadened to media such as drawings, photographs, and installations with a strong focus on clothes and plush figures. A complex, pictorial language connects the French conceptual artist’s work, as well as an overriding interest in how delicate components can be fragmented and recombined to form something new.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,Annette Messager: Exhibition/Exposition assembles a selection of the artist’s works, including her most recent installations and celebrated pieces from across her career. With an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Florence Thurmes, and an interview with Messager by the museum’s director, Marion Ackermann, the beautifully produced book provides an opportunity to rediscover this important contemporary artist.

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Founded in 1961, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is one of Germany’s most recognized art museums, dedicated to the display of the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The French artist Annette Messager (b. 1943) is one of the most important personalities of the international art scene. Her extensive installations focus on the human body and its attributes. Fragmented and joined together again with thread to form something new, she thereby creates a cosmos that is both fascinating and radical. In more than 40 years of artistic creativity Annette Messager has developed her own, concentrated pictorial language. In the early 1970s she still worked mainly with stuffed birds, knitting and picture collections; later these were complemented by drawings, photographs and installations with soft toys and clothes. By assembling and arranging the most delicate of elements she produces visually stunning works on the gender cliches of contemporary society. This bibliophiles art book reproduces the latest installations in addition to her most impressive works. It is published to accompany the first solo exhibition in a German museum for 25 years and provides an opportunity to rediscover the oe uvre of Annette Messager.

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• Editore: Hirmer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3777423475
• ISBN 13: 9783777423470
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 87
• Redattore: Nordrhein-Westfalen Kunstsammlung