Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Barron, Stephanie
2. Kaiser, Philipp, 1972-
3. Connolly, Maeve
4. Végh, Christina
5. Birchler, Alexander, 1962-
6. Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (Japan)
7. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
8. Sammlung Goetz.
9. Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.
10. Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
11. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
12. Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy)

Description

1. 389 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

1. In the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, the Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) presented 'Flora' and 'Bust', exploring the life of the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, with whom Alberto Giacometti had a love affair in Paris in the 1920s. While Giacometti is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, Mayo's oeuvre has been destroyed, her biography relegated to a footnote in Giacometti scholarship. In this work, which had its American premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2019, Hubbard / Birchler reframe Mayo's history through a feminist perspective that interweaves reconstruction, reenactment, and documentary into a hybrid form of storytelling. Flora, a double-sided film installation, is conceived as a conversation between Mayo and her son, David, whom the artists discovered living near Los Angeles. The work generates a multifaceted dialogue between a mother and son, Mayo and Giacometti, Paris and Los Angeles, and past and present. This illustrated book depicts the journey of Hubbard / Birchler's process and is accompanied by a transcript of the film installation, a visual chronology of Flora Mayo's life, and conversations with the artists.

Uniform title

1. Flora redux.
2. Flora redux. German.

Subject

1. Hubbard, Teresa, 1965-
2. Birchler, Alexander, 1962-
3. Hubbard, Teresa, 1965- > Interviews
4. Birchler, Alexander, 1962- > Interviews
5. Mayo, Flora Luella Lewis, 1898-1972 > In art > Exhibitions
6. Film installations (Art) > Exhibitions
7. Artists and models in art > Exhibitions
8. Installations filmiques (Art) > Expositions
9. Artists and models in art
10. Film installations (Art)

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Interviews.

Contents

1. Exhibition venues -- Foreword / Philipp Kaiser -- Flora in Los Angeles, Redux / Stephanie Barron -- At the edge of the frame / a conversation between Philipp Kaiser, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora : film sequences and dialogue -- The matter of recognition / Maeve Connolly -- Giving voice, forming body : conversation between Christina Végh, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora Lewis Mayo, chronology / Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler -- Production -- Production and research credits -- Contributor biographies -- German translations -- Acknowledgments.

Call number

1. N7153.B54

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Exhibition venues: May 13-November 26, 2017, Swiss Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice; January 21-May 6, 2018, National Museum of Art, Osaka; January 20-April 7, 2019, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; March 1-May 24, 2019, Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich; April 5-June 9, 2019, Giacometti Foundation Institute, Paris; August 27-December 8, 2019, National Museum of Art, Osaka; September 20, 2019-April 5, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; September 5, 2021-January 15, 2022, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

1. Text in English and German.