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Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life
Contributor(s): Camarda, Antonella (Editor), Foster-Rice, Greg (Contribution by), Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Contribution by)
ISBN: 3858818267     ISBN-13: 9783858818263
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
OUR PRICE:   $28.71  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Conceptual
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 8.3" (0.85 lbs) 112 pages
 
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Since the late 2000s, German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi has been creating an oeuvre the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and photography. Her large-scale installations investigate the history and memory of places, exploring the connections between time and space from a transnational perspective, and they have gained international recognition and praise.

Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life features Pousttchi's most recent installation at the Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. Taking as her subject the Metropolitan Life Building located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, Pousttchi reflects on the building, which was criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909. The world's tallest structure until 1913, the Metropolitan Life Building also displays a hybrid identity, which Pousttchi highlights, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, the Renaissance and Modernism. Published alongside Pousttchi's Nivola installation and other works is an essay by art historian Greg Foster-Rice and a conversation between the artist, critic, and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect and writer Markus Miessen.


Contributor Bio(s): Camarda, Antonella: - Antonella Camarda is a postdoctoral fellow for contemporary art history at the University of Sassari, Italy, and director of the Nivola Museum in Orani, Sardinia, Italy.
Foster-Rice, Greg: - Greg Foster-Rice is professor of art history in the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.Obrist, Hans Ulrich: - Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator, critic, and historian of art. He is codirector of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He was curator of the Swiss Pavilion at the fourteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.