Pars Pro Toto II (Paperback)

Susan Hefuna

ISBN 10: 3868280553 / ISBN 13: 9783868280555

Published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009

About this Item

Paperback. Elaborately designed and presented as a dialogue with the artist whilst also showcasing Hefuna's new body of work, mixing the intercultural codes and myths of German and Egyptian heritage. A new drawing series, the wooden Mashabiya and Hefuna's meditation screens are all documented as well as a series of interviews by Obrist with Hefuna. The work is further illuminated with an essay by Marcus de Sautoy. The second collection of Hefuna's work including a series of interviews with Obrist. Hefuna has been nominated for the 2009 Jameel Prize to be hostwed by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pars Pro Toto II (Paperback)
• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868280553
• ISBN 13: 9783868280555
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Pars Pro Toto II was, like the first volume in 2008, developed in the course of a close dialogue between the German Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna and the editor, Hans Ulrich Obrist. It presents Hefuna’s recent body of work.

Susan Hefuna’s work has been widely exhibited at such venues as the Louvre, Paris; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; the House of World Cultures, Berlin; the Third Line Gallery, Dubai; Sharjah Biennial; Albion Gallery, London and New York; the New Museum, New York; and Sevilla Biennial. She has been nominated for the 2009 Jameel Prize by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and will be included in the Venice Biennial in 2009.

About the Author

Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich, Switzerland, 1968) is a Swiss curator and art critic. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and was curator for contemporary art at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He presently serves as the Co-Director, Exhibitions and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London. This volume will feature art and art projects by Susan Hefuna from the past 5 years, shown in the following international solo exhibitions (Selection): "grid", installation, National Gallery, Cape Town (2000), "Made in Egypt - 4 Women - 4 Views". Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2002), "Life in the Delta", Vacio9 Gallery, Madrid (2002), "DisORIENTation", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003). Al Ghitani (born May 9, 1945) is an Egyptian author of historical novels and cultural and political commentaries and is the current editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Akhbar Al-Adab ("Cultural News"). Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born August 25, 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. 2008, he was elected to the Simonyi Professorship of the Public Understanding of Science. He is one of the UK's leading scientists, he writes for The Times and The Guardian and has appeared several times on BBC Radio 4 and television. Alaa El-Aswany (born 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya. Trained as a dentist in Egypt and Chicago, USA, his novel,"The Yacoubian Building", an ironic depiction of modern Egyptian society, has been widely read in Egypt and throughout the world. His second book, "Chicago", was published in 2007.