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Interiorities Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejão editor, Anna Schneider ; authors, Njideka Akunyili Crosby [and ten others]

Catalog Data

Editor:
Schneider, Anna (Art historian)  Search this
Author:
Crosby, Njideka Akunyili 1983-  Search this
Subject:
Naumann, Henrike 1984-  Search this
Varejão, Adriana 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
213 pages, 7 unnumbered pages illustrations (chiefly color, some folded) 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Interviews
History
Catalogues d'exposition
Date:
2020
Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, November 29, 2019 - March 29, 2020
AFA copy 39088019764356 gift from Janet Stanley.
Contents:
Interiorities: the cosmos in a room / Anna Schneider -- Home and away: Njideka Akunyili Crosby's space of familiarity / Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi -- Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Anna Schneider -- Leonor Antunes: precursors and protagonists / Briony Fer -- Leonor Antunes in conversation with Anna Schneider -- The national metabolism: furniture, power, and myth / Marietta Kesting -- Henrike Naumann in conversation with Anna Schneider -- Adriana Varejão and her blurred territories / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- Adriana Varejão in conversation with Raphael Fonseca
Summary:
"The artists featured in this book introduce a radical and innovative formal language that positions interiority as something both political and aesthetic. The work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby comprises vibrantly patterned paintings on paper that negotiate the complex cultural terrain of a life formed between two worlds: her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria. Conversely, the Portuguese sculptor Leonor Antunes focuses on migration and the transformation of form and ideas beyond temporal and geographical limits. The starting point for her elegant site-specific sculptures is the exploration of art, design, and architectural history. Adriana Varejão's imposing sculptures, drawings, and oil paintings, inspired in part by Baroque architecture, confront the colonial history of Brazil. While relying on the suggestive power of used furniture and objects of interior design, Henrike Naumann addresses the mechanisms of political radicalization and explores how they manifest themselves in space"--publisher's description
Topic:
Art and society  Search this
Architecture intérieure dans l'art  Search this
Décoration intérieure dans l'art  Search this
Art et société  Search this
Frontières dans l'art  Search this
Cosmopolitisme--Dans l'art  Search this
Cognition et culture  Search this
Art et mondialisation  Search this
Art and globalization  Search this
Boundaries in art  Search this
Cognition and culture  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1146725