Mounir Fatmi : suspect language /
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| Author / Creator: | Davies, Lillian (Art historian) author |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in USA, Canada, Central and South America by Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 2012. |
| Description: | 205 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | Images affranchies Collection Images affranchies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9751449 |
| Summary: | The first monograph of a contemporary artist, whose work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by the conventions. Mounir Fatmi was born in 1970 in Tangier, Morocco and now lives and works between Paris and Tangier. He constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious object, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He is particularly interested in the idea of death of the subject of consumption. This can be applied to antenna cables, copier machines, VHS tapes, and a dead language or a political movement. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. Mounir Fatmi's work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions and collective shows at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha and the Hayward Gallery, London. Mounir Fatmi was awarded by several prize such as the Cairo Biennial Prize in 2010, the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam and the Grand Prize Leopold Sedar Senghor of the 7th Dakar Biennial in 2006. |
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| Item Description: | "Working on the interface of cultures, Mounir Fatmi explores the contemporary world and stages a representation of its tensions and paradoxes. When he goes back over his childhood in Tangier, once home to the Beat Generation, Mounir Fatmi conjures up the curiosity that already drove him then and underpins his current practice. It is by tracing the course of the artist's path, especially his youth in Morocco, artistic studies in Italy and decision to settle in Paris, that Lillian Davies, the author of this monograph, manages to shed light on development of his aesthetic and conceptual interests. She thus reveals the constancy of his concerns as regards vocabulary and architecture as well as the percussive force of his works, which juxtapose the different levels of culture, the secular and the religious, the East and the West. The study thus offers in-depth examination of Mounir Fatmi's major works as well as analysis of the political and cultural contexts that he has chosen to explore through photography, video, sculpture and installations." --Cover pages [4]. |
| Physical Description: | 205 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-205). |
| ISBN: | 9788857214566 8857214567 |