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Gillian Wearing : family stories / [redaktør = editor, Jacob Fabricius, Cecilie Høgsbro Østergaard].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Danish Original language: Danish Publisher: Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 94 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 x 30 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783775743709
  • 3775743707
Other title:
  • Family stories
Contained works:
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963- Works. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.2 23
LOC classification:
  • N6797.W39 A4 2017
  • TR681.F28 W43 2017
Contents:
Preface / Mikkel Bogh & Jacob Fabricius -- Five hundred years of family pictures / Mikkel Bogh -- The mask becomes the shadow that we all have / Gillian Wearing in conversation with Marianne Torp -- Gillian Wearing : a real Danish family / Jacob Fabricius.
Summary: What does "family" mean today? Which notions and prejudices come to light with it? How is modern family life shaped these days? In her project A Real Danish Family, the British artist Gillian Wearing asks these questions in ways that are both artistic and thought-provoking. The eponymous sculpture portrays a Danish family selected from 492 participating families of the most diverse composition. The exhibition Family Stories, which will open when the sculpture is unveiled in the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Copenhagen and was initiated and produced by Kunsthal Arhus, also revolves around the family as the crystallization point for inter-human relationships. Photographs, videos, and sculptures explore relatedness and identity, and include the artist's own family as an example. In a series of "self-portraits" the artist uses masks to slip into the roles of her siblings, parents, and grandparents. The publication examines Wearing's work and the theme of the family through the lens of art history, and traces the course of A Real Danish Family, a project that boldly questions patterns of thought in society.
List(s) this item appears in: AD New acquisitions 2018
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca KUPER/enk. Wear 01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACDAN18110224

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 13, 2017-January 7, 2018.

Preface / Mikkel Bogh & Jacob Fabricius -- Five hundred years of family pictures / Mikkel Bogh -- The mask becomes the shadow that we all have / Gillian Wearing in conversation with Marianne Torp -- Gillian Wearing : a real Danish family / Jacob Fabricius.

What does "family" mean today? Which notions and prejudices come to light with it? How is modern family life shaped these days? In her project A Real Danish Family, the British artist Gillian Wearing asks these questions in ways that are both artistic and thought-provoking. The eponymous sculpture portrays a Danish family selected from 492 participating families of the most diverse composition. The exhibition Family Stories, which will open when the sculpture is unveiled in the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Copenhagen and was initiated and produced by Kunsthal Arhus, also revolves around the family as the crystallization point for inter-human relationships. Photographs, videos, and sculptures explore relatedness and identity, and include the artist's own family as an example. In a series of "self-portraits" the artist uses masks to slip into the roles of her siblings, parents, and grandparents. The publication examines Wearing's work and the theme of the family through the lens of art history, and traces the course of A Real Danish Family, a project that boldly questions patterns of thought in society.

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