Portable Art: A Project by Celia Forner (Paperback)

Sara Harrison

ISBN 10: 3906915018 / ISBN 13: 9783906915012

Published by Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, 2017

About this Item

Paperback. Made by fifteen contemporary artists and sitting somewhere between sculpture and wearable art, the specially commissioned, artist-made objects documented in this publication challenge conventional definitions of jewellery.Hauser & Wirth's Portable Art Project, organized by Spanish model Celia Forner, collects a group of commissioned, wearable objects made in collaboration with 15 artists. The project began with an invitation to Louise Bourgeois and evolved to include John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Stefan Brueggemann, Subodh Gupta, Mary Heilmann, Andy Hope 1930, Cristina Iglesias, Matthew Day Jackson, Bharti Kher, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, Caro Niederer, Michele Oka Doner and Pipilotti Rist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portable Art: A Project by Celia Forner (Paperback)
• Publisher: Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906915018
• ISBN 13: 9783906915012
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Hauser & Wirth’s Portable Art Project, organized by Spanish model Celia Forner, collects a group of commissioned, wearable objects made in collaboration with 15 artists. The project began with an invitation to Louise Bourgeois and evolved to include John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Stefan Brüggemann, Subodh Gupta, Mary Heilmann, Andy Hope 1930, Cristina Iglesias, Matthew Day Jackson, Bharti Kher, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, Caro Niederer, Michele Oka Doner and Pipilotti Rist.

For this publication, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma collaborated with photographer Gorka Postigo for a series of performative photographs, which capture de Palma engaging with each work as an extension of her body and a tool for expressing identity.