Kader Attia: Transformations

Attia, Kader

ISBN 10: 3944669231 / ISBN 13: 9783944669236

Published by Spector Books, 2014

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" A French artist of Algerian descent, Kader Attia directs his gaze toward theAfrican continent, engaging in specters of colonialism in the footsteps ofBrazilian poet Oswald de Andrade and activist Franz Fanon. This catalog drawsfrom the artist s recent exhibitionRepair5 Acts, an installation of what hecalls reappropriated materials across culture, politics, science, nature and thenotion of repair in continuity. Spanning installation, sculpture and photography,Attia s recent work includes an army of crouching figures whose identitiesdissolve under silvery rescue blankets often used to aid refugees in distress.In addition, the publication presents work from 2008 to 2013 and writingsfrom the artist and French anthropologist Marc Auge, tying together Attia scentral interest in identity with the endless exchange between European andnon-European cultures. The artist is the recipient of the Cairo Biennial Prize(2008) and was recently featured in dOCUMENTA XIII." pp. 224; COL; hardcover, as new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kader Attia: Transformations
• Publisher: Spector Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3944669231
• ISBN 13: 9783944669236
• Binding: Rilegato
• Edition: prima edizione
• Condition: come nuovo

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Synopsis

The manifold entanglements of African and Western culture are a central motif in the oeuvre of the Algerian-French artist Kader Attia. The influence of traditional African architecture on European modernism forms the background for his voluminous spatial installations, videos and photographs, as much as the reappropriation of North and South American black music within African Jazz and Pop of the 1960s up to the 1980s. His work manifests the productivity of dissonance; where African masks, stuffed animals, scientific instruments, and historical artifacts seemingly have nothing in common, the artist unearths connections between Europe’s handling of its own colonial history, current migration politics, and the urbanistic realities of its metropolises of today. Based on Kader Attia’s solo show Repair: 5 Acts at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, this publication focuses on works from the years 2008–2013 and places them in a broader art historical concept.