Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Panoramism and the Abstract Sector (Group 2), 2022
Set of 3 cushions: printed textile, foam
50 x 50,3 x 5 cm (19 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 2 in), 50 x 41,4 x 5 cm (19 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 2 in), 50 x 35 x 5 cm (19 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 2 in)
Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
The book cushions represent books significant to the artist and her practice. A particular focus in recent years, and in preparation of her large-scale panorama work entitled Panoramism and the Abstract Sector, has been post-World War II abstraction, especially Color Field Painting and Abstract Expressionism.
The selection of books brings together important art historical texts on these artistic periods and artists such as Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Janet Sobel whose work and likenesses also features prominently in the panorama. Another focus of the book cushions accompanying the panorama is literature from German authors (Panoramism and the Abstract Sector draws on the history of Berlin in the 20th century), as well as novels and theoretical texts dear to the artist.
Books have been at the core of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s art for a long time. Both literature and the exploration of ways to exhibit texts have engendered many of her works. Yet, it is not just as ideas but as physical objects that books have been a near constant presence in Gonzalez-Foerster’s work. Exhibited in piles on carpets, as part of her series tapis de lecture, or placed in exhibitions—for example, in the dystopian environment TH.2058 at the Tate’s Turbine Hall, attached to Thonet rocking chairs in her exhibition Splendide Hotel at the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid, or submerged in water or sand in her Dioramas at the Dia in 2009—books are an integral part of her practice.
The cushions have removable covers that are machine washable up to 30 degrees.
Index
Maurice Tuchman (ed.), The spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, New York: Abbeville Press, 1999
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, translated by Robert Amutio, BOURGOIS, 2008
Hedda Sterne, Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968, published by Van Doren Waxter, 2018
Summary
Maurice Tuchman (b.1936, USA) American curator. One of the most important curators to emerge from Los Angeles, Tuchman helped shape the identity of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through his many exhibitions and projects, including the historic Art and Technology exhibition of 1971. The essays in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 provide a radical rethinking of abstraction, from the Symbolism that prefigured abstract art through the current manifestations of spiritual content in American and European painting.
Roberto Bolaño ( b. 1953, Chile, d. 2003, Spain) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. Bolaño's writings repeatedly manifest a concern with the nature and purpose of literature and its relationship to life as well as the inescapable violence of modern life in Latin America, and the essential human business of youth, love and death. His posthumously published book 2666 consists of five parts that are only loosely connected in terms of content. The fictional novel of over 1000 pages is considered a milestone of contemporary literature and is regarded as the author's major work. It tells of an unsolved series of murders of women in Mexico and is a dark journey substantially concerned with violence and death.
Hedda Sterne, Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968, was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Van Doren Waxter in 2018. The exhibition catalogue traces the period between 1950 and 1968 in Sterne’s career, where she produced a significant body of paintings, drawings and prints based on her surroundings and the natural world. Accompanying the catalogue is a text by Art Historian Nancy Princenthal, which aims to contextualize Sterne’s work and draws attention to her innovative use of materials ranging from commercial spray paint to Radiography Pens.
The selection of books brings together important art historical texts on these artistic periods and artists such as Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Janet Sobel whose work and likenesses also features prominently in the panorama. Another focus of the book cushions accompanying the panorama is literature from German authors (Panoramism and the Abstract Sector draws on the history of Berlin in the 20th century), as well as novels and theoretical texts dear to the artist.
Books have been at the core of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s art for a long time. Both literature and the exploration of ways to exhibit texts have engendered many of her works. Yet, it is not just as ideas but as physical objects that books have been a near constant presence in Gonzalez-Foerster’s work. Exhibited in piles on carpets, as part of her series tapis de lecture, or placed in exhibitions—for example, in the dystopian environment TH.2058 at the Tate’s Turbine Hall, attached to Thonet rocking chairs in her exhibition Splendide Hotel at the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid, or submerged in water or sand in her Dioramas at the Dia in 2009—books are an integral part of her practice.
The cushions have removable covers that are machine washable up to 30 degrees.
Index
Maurice Tuchman (ed.), The spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, New York: Abbeville Press, 1999
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, translated by Robert Amutio, BOURGOIS, 2008
Hedda Sterne, Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968, published by Van Doren Waxter, 2018
Summary
Maurice Tuchman (b.1936, USA) American curator. One of the most important curators to emerge from Los Angeles, Tuchman helped shape the identity of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through his many exhibitions and projects, including the historic Art and Technology exhibition of 1971. The essays in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 provide a radical rethinking of abstraction, from the Symbolism that prefigured abstract art through the current manifestations of spiritual content in American and European painting.
Roberto Bolaño ( b. 1953, Chile, d. 2003, Spain) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. Bolaño's writings repeatedly manifest a concern with the nature and purpose of literature and its relationship to life as well as the inescapable violence of modern life in Latin America, and the essential human business of youth, love and death. His posthumously published book 2666 consists of five parts that are only loosely connected in terms of content. The fictional novel of over 1000 pages is considered a milestone of contemporary literature and is regarded as the author's major work. It tells of an unsolved series of murders of women in Mexico and is a dark journey substantially concerned with violence and death.
Hedda Sterne, Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968, was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Van Doren Waxter in 2018. The exhibition catalogue traces the period between 1950 and 1968 in Sterne’s career, where she produced a significant body of paintings, drawings and prints based on her surroundings and the natural world. Accompanying the catalogue is a text by Art Historian Nancy Princenthal, which aims to contextualize Sterne’s work and draws attention to her innovative use of materials ranging from commercial spray paint to Radiography Pens.
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