Corpus Domini
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Author: Miglietti, Francesca Alfano
This thematic catalogue contains more than 110 works by 34 international artists exploring new frontiers in depictions of the human body, exploring themes of life and death, youth and old age, work and migration, loss of balance and bodily life in the time and space of the present. Works featured range from the hyperreal to evocations rather than representations, creations where the body seems to have vanished and fragments of mutated bodies speaking to the mutable conditions of society.In works such as Christian Boltanski’s Prendre la Parole (Speaking Up), Ibrahim Mahama’s John B B, Chiharu Shiota’s Over the Continents, Dayanita Singh’s Suitcase Museumand Charles LeDray’s Mens Suits, the body seems to have vanished, leaving behind only traces. Fragments of the body and its mutation, and even the mutable conditions of society, are present in the works of Oscar Munoz, AES + F Group, Yael Bartana, Alfredo Jaar, Janine Antoni, Robert Gober, Marc Quinn, Andres Serrano, Robert Longo, Michel Rovner and Franko B.
ISBN 9788829713950. Marsilio Editori. pb. 272 pages. 200 colour ills. 29 x 23 cm.
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This thematic catalogue contains more than 110 works by 34 international artists exploring new frontiers in depictions of the human body, exploring themes of life and death, youth and old age, work and migration, loss of balance and bodily life in the time and space of the present. Works featured range from the hyperreal to evocations rather than representations, creations where the body seems to have vanished and fragments of mutated bodies speaking to the mutable conditions of society.In works such as Christian Boltanski’s Prendre la Parole (Speaking Up), Ibrahim Mahama’s John B B, Chiharu Shiota’s Over the Continents, Dayanita Singh’s Suitcase Museumand Charles LeDray’s Mens Suits, the body seems to have vanished, leaving behind only traces. Fragments of the body and its mutation, and even the mutable conditions of society, are present in the works of Oscar Munoz, AES + F Group, Yael Bartana, Alfredo Jaar, Janine Antoni, Robert Gober, Marc Quinn, Andres Serrano, Robert Longo, Michel Rovner and Franko B.
ISBN 9788829713950. Marsilio Editori. pb. 272 pages. 200 colour ills. 29 x 23 cm.
available