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Monster Chetwynd -
A real artist book more than a simple exhibition catalogue, with installations and performances view, documentation on exhibitions, and specific graphics on colour pages.
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Spartacus Chetwynd at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 24 February - 22 April, 2007 (www.migrosmuseum.ch).

Limited edition of a 1000 copies (accompanied with a booklet in tribute to Incredible Hulk).
Monster Chetwynd (ex Spartacus Chetwynd, ex Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, born Alalia Chetwynd in 1973) lives and works in London. She is known for her baroque and surreal performances which, with great humour, bring together multiple image quotations from art history and pop culture.
In the tradition of the grotesque she draws on elements from Giotto frescoes, characters from works by Hieronymus Bosch, or Yves Klein's Anthropometries (1960) together with heavy metal musicians, Michael Jackson's music video Thriller, or the 1980s television series The Hulk, and creates a unified whole. As already in Appropriation Art, in which alien artistic sources have been acquired, Chetwynd holds herself responsible for all elements of her works.
As well as performances, Chetwynd, who graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in painting, produced a series small canvases under the title Bat Opera (2004 - 2005), which also present quotations from pop culture, but in addition feature more romantic borrowings.
Edited by Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder.
Text by Raphael Gygax.

Published with the Migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
 
published in 2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
19,5 x 27,5 cm (softcover, inserted booklet)
296 pages (150 colour & 146 b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-3-905770-82-7
EAN : 9783905770827
 
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