Isabelle Cornaro: Fascination and Disgust of Matter (On Words) - Softcover

Edited By Julie Enckell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3858818712 ISBN 13: 9783858818713

Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

• The interview sheds light on many different aspects of Cornaro’s art and deepens the understanding of the different facets in her work
• Isabelle Cornaro's work has been shown at major international art spaces, such as the Musée d'Art moderne and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Sculpture Center in New York
• By women artists for art students: Female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art
• Each volume in the On Word series offers an interview in the artist’s native language along with a full English translation
• Text in English and French

Isabelle Cornaro, based in Paris and Geneva, holds degrees in art history and visual arts. She has a strong interest in experimental cinema and devotes herself to the narrative, symbolic, and economic origins of things. In her work she assumes an anthropologist-type manner to investigate people’s seemingly fixated attachment to emotionally charged, even fetishized objects, creating large stage installations and short movies.

This book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it.

Text in English and French.

About this title

About the Author

Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD―Genève, where she heads the Cultural Development Department.
Federica Martini is an art historian and curator and heads the Visual Arts department at EDHEA in Sierre, Switzerland. She is also a visiting scholar at London’s University of the Arts.
Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA’s board.

From the Back Cover

Off Words is a new series of books featuring interviews with women artists from around the world. Editors Julie Enckell Juliard and Federica Martini offer these artists a format to speak about the sources and visions for their work, discuss the topics they engage with, and to elaborate on their view of the world in which they live and work. Over time, the series will offer a new, polyphonic narrative of art history, told by distinguished artists who actively shape this history through their work, thoughts, and teaching. Isabelle Cornaro, born 1974 and based in Paris and Geneva, investigates the narrative, symbolic, and economic origin of objects. With such a quasi-anthropological focus her works explore our seemingly unshakeable attachment to these often emotionally charged or even fetishised things. Her large-scale scenic installations and short films leave room for interpretation and highlight the significance of the "cultural baggage" that affects our perception.

Text in English and French.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818712
• ISBN 13: 9783858818713
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Federica Martini, Sarah Burkhalter