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Evan Penny : ask your body

Title
Evan Penny : ask your body / edited by Michael Short.
Publication
  • Milano, Italy : Skira Editore S.p.A., 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Penny, Evan, 1953-
  • Short, Michael.
  • Nagel, Alexander.
  • Enright, Robert (Art critic).
  • Chiesa di San Samuele (Venice, Italy), host institution.
Description
119 pages : color illustrations; 27 cm
Summary
The latest sculptures from South African-born, Toronto-based artist Evan Penny (born 1953) are rooted in his longstanding interest in the human body and how viewers perceive their relationship with themselves and others. While Penny has expanded his sculptural repertoire by openly referencing art from other eras, Ask Your Body emphasizes the visceral manner in which viewers experience the works. The sculptures, several of which are monumentally scaled, can be described as meditations on the many conditions of being human: aspiring to be godlike and failing ('Marsyas'); the body subjected to the sacrifices and indignities of life on earth ('Homage to Holbein'); having one's body regarded as fragmented and dislocated ('Hanging Torso' and 'Self Portrait after Géricault's Fragments Anatomiques'); and creating empathy through the imagined history of the artist's life, as represented by a fictional period from the past ('Young Self') and from the future ('Old Self'). Exhibition: Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy (05. - 11.2017).
Alternative Title
Ask your body
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held within 57th Biennale di Venezia, at the Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy, May 13-November 26, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Text in English and French.
Contents
Ask your body: an invitation / Michael Short -- Demande à ton corps: une invitation / Michael Short -- Why do you peel me from myself? / Alexander Nagel -- Close encounters of the corporeal kind, an interview with Evan Penny / Robert Enright -- Rencontres rapprochées d'un genre corporel, une interview avec Evan Penny -- Works = Œuvres -- Exhibition views = Vues d'exposition -- Appendix = Annexes.
ISBN
  • 9788857235592
  • 8857235599
OCLC
  • on1018386187
  • 1018386187
  • SCSB-8807560
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library