Publications
Anna Maria
Maiolino
Order and Subjectivity
Pharos Publishers
Edited by Michael Asbury and Garo Keheyan
Foreword by Garo Keheyan
Introduction by Michael Asbury
Essays by Michael Asbury, Briony Fer and Fatima Lambert
Price: €30.00
ISBN: 978-9963-9199-5-6
Pages: 200
Binding: Softback
Illustrations: 250 colour photos
Dimensions: 300mm x 235mm
Languages: English
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Anna Maria
Maiolino’s work is today recognised as being central to the
development of art in the late 20th century. With a
career that spans almost 50 years, she has continuously re-appraised
her production, initiating new lines of enquiry, often accompanied
by the use of new media.
This book,
documents the exhibition held at Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art
in October 2007. It explores how Maiolino has developed her
production throughout the years, from responses to the individual
trauma of cultural displacement, the repressive political conditions
of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil, leading to her current exploration
of issues of subjectivity.
Michael Asbury
examines Maiolino’s relation to Brazilian art historical
developments such as ‘the constructive will’ and the relation to the
body, presenting the reader with a general overview of her work.
Following a conversation with the artist, Briony Fer investigates
the artist’s production in clay, exploring her working processes and
unravelling the metaphors that arise. Fatima Lambert focuses on the
recurrent figures in the oeuvre, particularly that of the egg, in
order to suggest the presence of an iconography that invokes the
archaic. Fully illustrated, the book places the exhibition at Pharos
within the context of the overall production of this prolific
artist.
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