Leonor Antunes - A Seam, A Surface, A Hinge Or A Knot. 58th Biennale De Venezia - Softcover

Leonor Antunes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3956794818 ISBN 13: 9783956794810

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2019

Synopsis

A catalogue documenting Leonor Antunes's exhibition in the Portuguese Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Engaging the histories of art, architecture, and design, Leonor Antunes reflects on the functions of everyday objects, contemplating their potential to be materialized as abstract sculptures. She investigates the values and ideas embedded in things as well as in vernacular traditions and craft. Over the last two years, the artist has researched postwar figures active in Venice, Milan, and Turin who had a predominant role in postwar reconstruction as well as how craftsmanship traditions, associated with particular forms of knowledge and making, intersect with this history. Accompanying Antunes's exhibition in the Portuguese Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, a seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot features texts by Briony Fer, Suzanne Cotter, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and curator João Ribas, as well as an artist's project of approximately twenty die-cut sheets based on drawings in the archive of Egle Trincanato, an architect, writer, photographer, and curator who worked in Venice.

Contributors

Suzanne Cotter, Briony Fer, Ana Teixeira Pinto, João Ribas

About this title

About the Author

Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and theorist, based in Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3956794818
• ISBN 13: 9783956794810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116