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Sheela Gowda : it.. matters

Title
Sheela Gowda : it.. matters / herausgegeben von / edited by Eva Huttenlauch & Matthias Mühling.
Author
Gowda, Sheela
Publication
  • Göttingen : Steidl ; München : Lenbachhaus, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Huttenlauch, Eva
  • Mühling, Matthias
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution
Description
181 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 27 cm
Summary
This book explores the eclectic practice of artist Sheela Gowda and her ongoing engagement with the paradoxes and predicaments of urban and rural life in modern India. With an emphasis on her sprawling installations, we see her use of distinctive materials from her native India, whose textures, colors and scents lend her work narrative form as well as metaphorical force. Through the imaginative employment of cow dung, kumkum powder, coconut fibers, hair, threads, stones, tar barrels and tarpaulins, which carry magical, cult and ritual, personal and functional connotations, Gowda blends traditions of craftsmanship and practical application with poetic intensity. Gowda began her career as an oil painter, testing out themes and approaches that would shape her later practice: the everyday life of middle-class India, the conflicts women confront at work and at home, appropriating media images that touch on political and social tensions. In the early 1990s she first adopted cow dung as a medium (initially in paintings, later in three-dimensional pieces and installations), exploring its relevance to the Hindu cult of the cow and omnipresence in today's India, from practical uses (in construction, flooring, insulation), to its purifying, healing properties and sacred significance.
Uniform Title
  • Sheela Gowda.
  • Sheela Gowda. English.
Alternative Title
It.. matters
Subject
  • Gowda, Sheela > Exhibitions
  • Gowda, Sheela, 1957- > Expositions
  • Gowda, Sheela
  • Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
  • Conceptual art > Exhibitions
  • Installations (Art)
  • Art conceptuel
  • Conceptual art
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Accompanies the exhibition held at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, March 31 - July 26, 2020.
  • The exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Maria Lassnig Prize awarded to Sheela Gowda in 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Parallel text in English and German.
Call Number
JQF 21-801
ISBN
  • 9783958297050
  • 3958297056
LCCN
9783958297050
OCLC
1163638858
Author
Gowda, Sheela, artist.
Title
Sheela Gowda : it.. matters / herausgegeben von / edited by Eva Huttenlauch & Matthias Mühling.
Publisher
Göttingen : Steidl ; München : Lenbachhaus, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Parallel text in English and German.
Added Author
Huttenlauch, Eva, editor.
Mühling, Matthias, editor.
Gowda, Sheela. Works. Selections.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.
Added Title
Sheela Gowda.
Sheela Gowda. English.
Other Standard Identifier
9783958297050
Research Call Number
JQF 21-801
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