Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Karen Marta. Text by Elena Filipovic, Dakis Joannou, Andra Ursu?a.
Romanian artist Andra Ursu?a (born 1979) draws from the visual language and display strategies of archaeological museums to invent faux-historical artifacts belonging to a defunct civilization whose relics seem to speak to the anxieties of our present. Apocalypse Now and Then documents the titular site-specific installation in Hydra, Greece, wherein Ursu?a displayed fragments of sculptures and studio detritus that had been successively built up and destroyed with analog and digital tools, including Desolation Ware, a series of lost-wax cast bronze sculptures. In addition to ample installation shots, the volume explores the work’s themes—such as the history of object-making and sculpture and the ways in which this manually derived system of knowledge and speculation has come to shape our visual world—in new texts by DESTE founder, Dakis Joannou, curator Elena Filipovic and the artist herself.
Published by New Museum. Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Natalie Bell. Text by Natalie Bell, Maurizio Cattelan. Interview by Massimiliano Gioni.
Combining formal innovation with dark humor and social commentary, the work of Romanian-born artist Andra Ursuta (born 1979) uses parody and blasphemy to expose power dynamics, probe the vulnerability of the human body and examine modes of desire. Ursuta’s sculptures and installations engage a visual language that weaves an art-historical homage with a homespun, anarchic sensibility. Ursuta has lived in the US since the late 1990s, but many of the facets of her upbringing--from occult folk traditions to nationalist propaganda--resonate throughout her work. This volume, the artist’s first catalogue, marks her 2016 solo exhibition at the New Museum. It features an interview between Ursuta and Massimiliano Gioni, a new essay by Natalie Bell and a sardonic aesthetic prescription by artist Maurizio Cattelan.
PUBLISHER New Museum
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 76 color / 44 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/26/2016 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 110
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781942607328TRADE List Price: $22.00 CAD $30.00 GBP £20.00
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