Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from 35 Years (E) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3791352415 ISBN 13: 9783791352411

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2013

Riassunto

This thematic retrospective catalogue is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley.

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. Working across many disciplines, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, music and sound works, and performances that managed to be at once shocking yet funny, and complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated retrospective exhibition was conceived in close collaboration with the artist as an overview of his career—from his early Performative Sculptures and Objects to the "abject" sculptures made of old stuffed animals to the multi-part video installation Day Is Done to the ambitious Mobile Homestead, the artist’s final work before his untimely passing in 2012. This book features essays and a fully annotated plate section, as well as a newly researched and revised exhibition chronology, performance history, videography, discography, and bibliography of Kelley’s work. In addition, the publication includes the artist’s last interview. Mike Kelley promises to be the definitive reference on the work of this singular and highly influential artist.

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Eva Meyer-Hermann is an independent curator.

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From the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. A multidisciplinary impresario, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art that managed to be at once shocking yet humorous, complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated exhibition brings a fresh understanding to the artist's work by seeking to address the more poetic aspects of Kelley's work through Eva Meyer-Hermann's unique curatorial approach. Here she presents individual works in new combinations that cross the boundaries of chronology, bodies of work, and former artistic project groups. Identifying themes such as architecture, language, identity, Informe, power, modernisms, nostalgia, and religion, the book represents ideas that have informed Kelley's work throughout his career. As a result, the overarching lines of his oeuvre become visible and accessible. This book features essays, a fully annotated plate section, and a newly researched and revised biography and bibliography of Kelley's work. The publication promises to be the definitive work on the artist.
Exhibition Itinerary:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: December 14, 2012-April 2, 2013
The Centre Pompidou, Paris: May 2-August 5, 2013
The Museum of Modern Art (PS1),New York: Fall 2013
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: 2014
Published in association with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Prestel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3791352415
• ISBN 13: 9783791352411
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 399
• Redattore: Goldstein Anne, Mark Lisa Gabrielle