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Annette Messager : motion/emotion / Rachel Kent, Patricia Falguières ; translated by Charles Penwarden and Frédérique Destribats.
- Title
- Annette Messager : motion/emotion / Rachel Kent, Patricia Falguières ; translated by Charles Penwarden and Frédérique Destribats.
- Publication
- The Rocks, Sydney, N.S.W. : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, [2014]
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- Description
- 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "Annette Messager is a leading French artist whose extensive body of work over four decades encompasses drawing, photography, needlework, sculpture and installation. For her first Australian survey exhibition at the MCA Australia, the artist showed works from 1972 to the present, including major installations with kinetic or moving elements. Messager’s artworks are modest in their choice of materials. Clothing, badges, stuffed toys, yarn and synthetic hair all feature prominently, reworked by the artist to unsettling effect. Images are culled from popular magazines and newspapers, drawn by hand or photographed, while particular words are repeated over and over, like a litany. Messager has spoken of her longstanding interest in ‘outsider’ art, including the work of amateur artists and children’s art. Equally significant are the historically overlooked practices, materials and techniques of women artists, which she has explored over decades. Since her debut in the Paris art scene in 1971-72 Messager has created an eccentric menagerie of creatures. Animal, human, monstrous or something in-between, her creations suggest the complexity of life as well as the mythologies, superstitions and vanities that underpin it – the shadowy ‘other’ within us all. From her earliest works exploring concepts of the feminine, to works of the 1980s that explore hybrid beings or ‘chimeras’, to later works featuring dismembered soft toys, unravelled woollen sweaters and hand-stitched limbs and organs, the body remains central while identity is destabilised."--Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Annette Messager.
- Annette Messager. French.
- Alternative Title
- Motion/emotion
- Subject
- Messager, Annette, 1943- > Exhibitions
- Messager, Annette, 1943-
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.) > Exhibitions
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)
- 2000-2099
- Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
- Artists > France > Exhibitions
- Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Art, Modern
- Artists
- Installations (Art)
- France
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Annette Messager motion/emotion", Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 24 June - 26 October 2014.
- Issued in paper sleeve.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-169).
- Language (note)
- English, with French translation.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Forewords / Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, S.E.M. Stéphane Romatet -- Annette Messager: life enlarged / Rachel Kent -- Fée d'artifice / Patricia Falguières (translation by Charles Penwarden) -- Image plates -- Textes français. Annette Messager: la vie augmentée / Rachel Kent (traduction par Frédérique Destribats) ; Fée artifice / Patricia Falguières.
- ISBN
- 9781921034725
- 1921034726
- OCLC
- 875160200
- SCSB-10289626
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library