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LACY SOTO | DATE 12/10/2022

Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore

Saturday, December 10 at 3 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents a special book signing event with Margaret Wertheim, celebrating Value and Transformation of Corals. Wertheim will be in conversation with a special guest, to be announced, with book signing to follow. Pre-order a copy signed by Margaret and register for the event here!

Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore

Australian-born, California-based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft methods and collective art practice to create large-scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, their soft sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs simulate living reefs using crochet techniques to mimic in yarn the curling, crenelated forms of actual marine organisms. Initiated in 2005, the Crochet Coral Reef project has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale, Helsinki Biennial, Andy Warhol Museum, The Smithsonian Institution and other international venues. In addition to their own reefs, the Wertheim’s have collaborated with communities in 50 cities and countries to create local Satellite Reefs, to which more than 20,000 people have contributed, constituting one of the largest, longest running participatory art happenings on the planet.

Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore

This publication accompanied a museum-wide retrospective at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, which gathers the Wertheim’s’ work over the past 17 years alongside a new Baden-Baden Satellite Reef, the largest to date, encompassing over 40,000 individual coral pieces.

Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore

ARTBOOK AT HAUSER & WIRTH LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORE
Margaret Wertheim: 'Value and Transformation of Corals'

Saturday, December 10, 2022: 3 PM PST
917 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-988-7413
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Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore
Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore
Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore
Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore
Margaret Wertheim on 'Value and Transformation of Corals' at Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore

Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals

Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals

Wienand Verlag
Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 233 pgs / 190 color / 3 b&w.

$50.00  free shipping