| | | | | |
| |   |   | José BediaEdited by Virginia Ruano. Introduction by Orlando Hernandez. Text by kevin Power. Contribution by Cuauhtémoc Medina.
This is the first monograph of the renowned Cuban artist Josª Bedia, whose art is as fresh as wet graffiti and as ancient as cave paintings. The Cuban-born artist resolves the distance of millennia in spare line drawings rooted at once in an appreciation for comic art and an abiding belief in the shared characteristics of indigenous faiths. A priest of Palo Monte, a rural religion closely tied to nature, Bedia has studied with Lakota Indians, the Yoruba of West Africa, and adherents of the pan-Caribbean Santer'a religion. From a personal cosmography born of his immersion in diverse cultures, Bedia's drawings are populated by godlike animistic figures with extenuated limbs that reach out over great distances, perhaps alluding to the artist's desire to bring diverse cultures into synchronic unison. Sentences written in elegant script often suggest didactic messages, as in one circular canvas in which a rabbit-eared figure growing from a mountain holds in its fist a wide-winged bird straining to reach the horizon. No puedo retenerte ms is the inscribed legend--I can no longer hold you. It is a sentiment familiar to anyone who has tried in vain to restrain something that must be freed--a child, a lover, a secret--or conversely felt trapped by loving constraints. Though accessible on the surface, Bedia's art inevitably withholds layers that remain ambiguous. Why are such intimate sentiments set against astrological renderings of the night sky? Why are offerings left at certain drawings and installations? Even for the uninitiated, Bedia is a great teacher, using his tremendous graphic skill to engage viewers in a personal spiritual voyage.
|
|  | STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely. | |
| | | ART BOOKS & MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGS: FORTHCOMING AND RECENT RELEASES |  | HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERSISBN: 9783906915722 USD $55.00 | CAN $76Pub Date: 1/17/2023 Active | In stock
|
|  | DELMONICO BOOKS/LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTISBN: 9781636810164 USD $49.95 | CAN $69.95 UK £ 43.99Pub Date: 1/17/2023 Active | In stock
|
|  | HATJE CANTZISBN: 9783775753807 USD $55.00 | CAN $76Pub Date: 1/17/2023 Active | In stock
|
|  | HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERSISBN: 9783906915739 USD $45.00 | CAN $62Pub Date: 12/13/2022 Active | In stock
|
|  | SKIRA EDITOREISBN: 9788857248042 USD $45.00 | CAN $62Pub Date: 12/20/2022 Active | In stock
|
|  | DELMONICO BOOKS/LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTISBN: 9781636810805 USD $75.00 | CAN $105 UK £ 66Pub Date: 1/31/2023 Active | In stock
|
|  | STEIDL/DIOGENESISBN: 9783958299184 USD $75.00 | CAN $105Pub Date: 6/27/2023 Forthcoming
|
|  | OSMOSISBN: 9780991660889 USD $25.00 | CAN $34 UK £ 21.995Pub Date: 8/2/2022 Active | In stock
|
|  | LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTISBN: 9788793659575 USD $45.00 | CAN $62 UK £ 40Pub Date: 3/28/2023 Forthcoming
|
|  | CENTRE POMPIDOUISBN: 9782844269256 USD $65.00 | CAN $90 UK £ 57Pub Date: 9/13/2022 Active | In stock
|
|  | JTT, NEW YORK/REGEN PROJECTS, LOS ANGELESISBN: 9781735555713 USD $60.00 | CAN $84 UK £ 53Pub Date: 10/4/2022 Active | In stock
|
|  | JRP|EDITIONSISBN: 9783037645949 USD $55.00 | CAN $76Pub Date: 1/31/2023 Active | In stock
|
|
|
| |
| |

|
FORMAT: Clothbound, 11 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $75.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $99 ISBN: 9788475066158 PUBLISHER: Turner/Ramis Barquet AVAILABLE: 12/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA AFR ME | D.A.P. CATALOG: SPRING 2004 | PRESS INQUIRIES
Tel: (212) 627-1999 ext 217 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Email Press Inquiries: publicity@dapinc.com | TRADE RESALE ORDERS
D.A.P. | DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS Tel: (212) 627-1999 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Customer Service: (800) 338-2665 Email Trade Sales: orders@dapinc.com |
| José Bedia Published by Turner/Ramis Barquet. Edited by Virginia Ruano. Introduction by Orlando Hernandez. Text by kevin Power. Contribution by Cuauhtémoc Medina. This is the first monograph of the renowned Cuban artist Josª Bedia, whose art is as fresh as wet graffiti and as ancient as cave paintings. The Cuban-born artist resolves the distance of millennia in spare line drawings rooted at once in an appreciation for comic art and an abiding belief in the shared characteristics of indigenous faiths. A priest of Palo Monte, a rural religion closely tied to nature, Bedia has studied with Lakota Indians, the Yoruba of West Africa, and adherents of the pan-Caribbean Santer'a religion. From a personal cosmography born of his immersion in diverse cultures, Bedia's drawings are populated by godlike animistic figures with extenuated limbs that reach out over great distances, perhaps alluding to the artist's desire to bring diverse cultures into synchronic unison. Sentences written in elegant script often suggest didactic messages, as in one circular canvas in which a rabbit-eared figure growing from a mountain holds in its fist a wide-winged bird straining to reach the horizon. No puedo retenerte ms is the inscribed legend--I can no longer hold you. It is a sentiment familiar to anyone who has tried in vain to restrain something that must be freed--a child, a lover, a secret--or conversely felt trapped by loving constraints. Though accessible on the surface, Bedia's art inevitably withholds layers that remain ambiguous. Why are such intimate sentiments set against astrological renderings of the night sky? Why are offerings left at certain drawings and installations? Even for the uninitiated, Bedia is a great teacher, using his tremendous graphic skill to engage viewers in a personal spiritual voyage.
| VIEW MORE ONLINE AT: https://www.artbook.com/8475066151.html |
| | |
|