Research Catalog

Title

Flora redux / Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler.

Author

Hubbard, Teresa, 1965-

Publication

• Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barron, Stephanie
• Kaiser, Philipp, 1972-
• Connolly, Maeve
• Végh, Christina
• Birchler, Alexander, 1962-
• Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (Japan)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• Sammlung Goetz.
• Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.
• Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
• Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy)

Description

389 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

In the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, the Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) presented 'Flora' and 'Bust', exploring the life of the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, with whom Alberto Giacometti had a love affair in Paris in the 1920s. While Giacometti is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, Mayo's oeuvre has been destroyed, her biography relegated to a footnote in Giacometti scholarship. In this work, which had its American premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2019, Hubbard / Birchler reframe Mayo's history through a feminist perspective that interweaves reconstruction, reenactment, and documentary into a hybrid form of storytelling. Flora, a double-sided film installation, is conceived as a conversation between Mayo and her son, David, whom the artists discovered living near Los Angeles. The work generates a multifaceted dialogue between a mother and son, Mayo and Giacometti, Paris and Los Angeles, and past and present. This illustrated book depicts the journey of Hubbard / Birchler's process and is accompanied by a transcript of the film installation, a visual chronology of Flora Mayo's life, and conversations with the artists.

Uniform Title

• Flora redux.
• Flora redux. German.

Subject

• Hubbard, Teresa, 1965-
• Birchler, Alexander, 1962-
• Hubbard, Teresa, 1965- > Interviews
• Birchler, Alexander, 1962- > Interviews
• Mayo, Flora Luella Lewis, 1898-1972 > In art > Exhibitions
• Film installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Artists and models in art > Exhibitions
• Artists and models in art
• Film installations (Art)

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Note

• Exhibition venues: May 13-November 26, 2017, Swiss Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice; January 21-May 6, 2018, National Museum of Art, Osaka; January 20-April 7, 2019, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; March 1-May 24, 2019, Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich; April 5-June 9, 2019, Giacometti Foundation Institute, Paris; August 27-December 8, 2019, National Museum of Art, Osaka; September 20, 2019-April 5, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; September 5, 2021-January 15, 2022, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and German.

Contents

Exhibition venues -- Foreword / Philipp Kaiser -- Flora in Los Angeles, Redux / Stephanie Barron -- At the edge of the frame / a conversation between Philipp Kaiser, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora : film sequences and dialogue -- The matter of recognition / Maeve Connolly -- Giving voice, forming body : conversation between Christina Végh, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler -- Flora Lewis Mayo, chronology / Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler -- Production -- Production and research credits -- Contributor biographies -- German translations -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

JQF 22-991

ISBN

• 9781942185598
• 1942185596

OCLC

1105597563

Author

Hubbard, Teresa, 1965- artist, interviewee.

Title

Flora redux / Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in English and German.

Added Author

Barron, Stephanie, contributor.

Kaiser, Philipp, 1972- interviewer.

Connolly, Maeve, contributor.

Végh, Christina, interviewer.

Birchler, Alexander, 1962- artist, interviewee.

Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (Japan)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Sammlung Goetz.

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.

Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy)

Added Title

Flora redux.

Flora redux. German.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-991