Title: Silvie & Ch�rif Defraoui : Archives Du Futur: 14 Commentaries / Kommentare / Comments 1984-2020
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3039420046
ISBN 13: 9783039420049
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New

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An exploration of the work of Silvie and Ch�rif Defraoui, important pioneers of multidisciplinary and multimedia art and of art education in Switzerland.

Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui, born in 1935, realized a significant part of her work beginning in 1975 together with her husband Ch�rif (1932–1994). Silvie and Ch�rif Defraoui compiled their photo and video works, installations, sculptures, and performances under the title Archives du Futur. They taught together at Geneva’s �cole sup�rieure des Beaux-Arts (today HEAD–Gen�ve), where they founded the legendary studio M�dia Mixte and taught a number of renowned artists.

The Archives du Futur, to which Silvie Defraoui has continued adding works since Ch�rif’s premature death, has been made available as a digital catalog raisonn� to browse online. This book accompanies, supplements, and expands on the digital documentation. It gathers fourteen commentaries on individual works of the two artists by distinguished art theorists and curators, originally published from 1984 onwards in various art journals and exhibition catalogs or newly written for this book. They reflect on the artists’ joint oeuvre as well as on work created independently by Silvie Defraoui. Interviews with her and selected lecture texts from the couple’s shared teaching activities shed light on their artistic stance and thematic focuses.

The volume invites an exploration of an artistic body of work that is highly topical through its merging of dualities—memory and the present, Orient and Occident, man and woman, tradition and invention.

About the Authors

Bigna Guyer is an art historian and curator of the art collection of the Swiss Canton of Zurich.

Daniel Kurjaković is an expert of contemporary art and program curator at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.

Hans Rudolf Reust is an art critic and head of studies at the Department of Fine Arts, Bern University of the Arts.

Corinne Schatz is a freelance writer and curator based in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Philip Ursprung is professor of art and architectural history at ETH Zurich’s Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta).

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