Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes (Paperback)

Mika Rottenberg

ISBN 10: 8793659512 / ISBN 13: 9788793659513

Published by Louisiana, 2022

Paperback. Consumer critique meets absurdist humor in the socal surrealist works of the installation and video artistBorn in Argentina, raised in Israel and now living in New York, Mika Rottenberg (born 1976) explores connections between people in the global consumer society through film, installation, sculpture and drawing. In Rottenbergs work, peoplemost often womenand machines are engaged in incessant production. Rhythmic editing and sound design whirl us into labyrinthine processes in which goods are manufactured and conveyed in one big, surreal hamster wheel. Her scenarios are funhouse versions of our own world; like science labs investigating naturally occurring phenomena, the artists installations can be seen as designs and models testing social concepts and abstract systems. Rottenberg herself calls her art social surrealism.This catalog, designed by the internationally acclaimed Dutch designer Irma Boom, presents some of Rottenbergs most trenchant work, as well as an interview with the artist by Anders Kold, curator at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and an introduction by William Pym. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9788793659513

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Consumer critique meets absurdist humor in the “socal surrealist” works of the installation and video artist

Born in Argentina, raised in Israel and now living in New York, Mika Rottenberg (born 1976) explores connections between people in the global consumer society through film, installation, sculpture and drawing. In Rottenberg’s work, people―most often women―and machines are engaged in incessant production. Rhythmic editing and sound design whirl us into labyrinthine processes in which goods are manufactured and conveyed in one big, surreal hamster wheel. Her scenarios are funhouse versions of our own world; like science labs investigating naturally occurring phenomena, the artist’s installations can be seen as designs and models testing social concepts and abstract systems. Rottenberg herself calls her art “social surrealism.”
This catalog, designed by the internationally acclaimed Dutch designer Irma Boom, presents some of Rottenberg’s most trenchant work, as well as an interview with the artist by Anders Kold, curator at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and an introduction by William Pym.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes (...
Publisher: Louisiana
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new