Description
At the Intersection of the Here and Now, Eternity and Universality
About the Author
Paris-based artist THOMAS HIRSCHHORN (*1957, Bern) is best known for his sculptures in public space (more than seventy to the present day) - monuments, kiosks, altars such as his Bataille Monument which was set up in a residential area in Kassel during documenta 11. Questioning the autonomy, the authorship and resistance of a work of art, he asserts the power of art to touch and transform the other. The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival (2009) is one of such projects, the Gramsci Monument in The Bronx, New York (2013), and more recently in 2019 the Robert Walser-Sculpture in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. He represented Switzerland at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and received the Prix Marcel Duchamp, the Joseph Beuys Stiftung Prize, and the Meret Oppenheim Prize, among others.
VITTORIA MARTINI is an independent art historian with a focus on the history of exhibitions and the economics of contemporary art. Her main research topic is the institutional, topographic, cultural, and social history of the Venice Biennale.
Book Information
ISBN 9783775752626
Author Claire Bishop
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Weight(grams) 280g