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Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora Redux
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora Redux
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The Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale featured Flora and Bust, an artwork by Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler that explores the life of Flora Mayo, an unknown American artist who had a love affair with Alberto Giacometti in Paris in the 1920s. The artwork is a hybrid form of storytelling that combines reconstruction, reenactment, and documentary elements, and had its American premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2019.
Format: Hardback
Length: 148 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2022
Publisher: Radius Books
The Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale showcased an extraordinary artistic collaboration between the Swiss American artist couple Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler. Born in 1965 and 1962 respectively, Hubbard / Birchler delved into the enigmatic life of the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, who had a passionate affair with Alberto Giacometti in Paris during the 1920s. Despite Giacometti's renowned status as one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, Mayo's artistic legacy has been tragically erased, with her biography often relegated to a mere footnote in Giacometti scholarship. In their groundbreaking work, Flora and Bust, Hubbard / Birchler reimagined Mayo's history through a feminist lens, seamlessly blending reconstruction, reenactment, and documentary elements into a captivating hybrid form of storytelling.
Flora, a captivating double-sided film installation, takes the form of a heartfelt conversation between Mayo and her son, David, whom the artists discovered living near Los Angeles. This artistic endeavor generates a rich and multifaceted dialogue that spans across time and space, encompassing Mayo and Giacometti, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as the past and present. The book, adorned with stunning illustrations, vividly captures the journey of Hubbard / Birchler's creative process, accompanied by a transcript of the film installation, a visual chronology of Mayo's life, and insightful conversations with the artists themselves.
Through their meticulous research and artistic vision, Hubbard / Birchler have breathed new life into the forgotten story of Flora Mayo, shedding light on the contributions of women artists to the 20th-century art world. Flora and Bust serves as a powerful testament to the enduring power of art to transcend time and reshape our understanding of history.
Dimension: 318 x 235 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781942185598
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