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Initiales #11 – Initiales I.G.

Initiales Isa Genzken - Initiales #11
Initiales dedicates its eleventh issue to a major figure of contemporary sculpture, Isa Genzken.
Initiales is an art and research biannual magazine published by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.
A student at the dynamic Düsseldorf Academy during the 1960s, Genzken has since consistently challenged Modernist imperatives in her explorations of the relationships between public and private space, artistic autonomy and collective experience. The artist's oeuvre, which can be subsumed under the term “sculptural,” is characterized by extreme contrasts between the individual stages of development. However, the characterization of Isa Genzken as a traditional sculptor, along with the usual remarks concerning the heterogeneity of her methods (photography, video, film, collages, and collage books), veils a stronger internal logic. While the work demonstrates a continuous examination of the classic themes of sculpture (the ordering of mass and volume; the relation between construction, surface design, and materials; the conception of and relation between objects, space, and the viewer), what the “traditional sculptor” label cannot quite capture is Genzken's remarkable ruthlessness: the manner in which her work underlines the rejection of traditional understandings of sculpture and space while reflecting on and disclosing the specific circumstances of their production and reception.
 
published in May 2018
French edition
22,5 x 30 cm (softcover)
128 pages (color & b/w ill.)
 
15.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-915213-30-0
EAN : 9782915213300
 
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