Research Catalog

Title

Marina Cruz : breathing patterns / with a text by Kira Jürjens and an interview with the artist by Philipp Bollmann ; editors: Matthias Arndt, Tiffany Wood ; texts: Matthias Arndt (foreword), Philipp Bollmann (interview), Kira Jürjens (essay) ; translation: Ann Marie Bohan.

Author

Cruz, Marina, 1982-

Publication

• Berlin : Distanz, [2017].
• Berlin : Gestalten
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Arndt, Matthias, 1968-
• Bollmann, Philipp
• Jürjens, Kira
• Wood, Tiffany

Description

93 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

The paintings of the Philippine artist Marina Cruz (b. Quezon City, Philippines, 1982; lives and works in Bulacan) blend abstract harmonies of color with trompe-l'Œil depictions. Her motifs are dresses her late grandmother sewed for her mother and aunt. They bear the imprints of the grandmother's manual craftsmanship as well as the wearers' bodies and experiences. Not unlike an archaeologist, Cruz reveals these traces in the folds and deep grooves, the vibrant chromatic textures and fragile lineaments of the fabrics. In some pictures the haunting beauty of the surfaces has suffered the ravages of time, while in others stains and tears seem to hint at incidents of violence and bodily injury. At a time when clothes are increasingly short-lived mass products, Cruz's works read as an ode to the tailor's trade and to garments as a record of history.

Uniform Title

Paintings. Selections

Alternative Title

• Breathing patterns
• Paintings.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Clothing and dress in art > Catalogs
• Cruz, Marina, 1982- > Catalogs
• Painting, Philippine > 21st century > Catalogs
• Trompe l'oeil painting > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3954761947
• 9783954761944

LCCN

9783954761944

OCLC

1000515877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library