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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Holdings

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
• Installations filmiques (Art) > Expositions
• 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

N7153.B54

ISBN

• 9781942185598
• 1942185596

OCLC

• 1105597563
• on1105597563
• SCSB-14253076

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries