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Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

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Vija Celmins is a Latvian-American artist who has been creating detailed renderings of natural imagery for over five decades. Her latest exhibition, "Vija Celmins: Drawings and Paintings," is on view at the Metropolitan Museum until January 12, 2020. The catalogue includes scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and excerpts from interviews with the artist, exploring her methods and techniques and tracing the development of her work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2018
Publisher: Yale University Press


Best known for her captivating drawings of ocean surfaces, which she began in 1968 and revisited over many years, both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been crafting exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for over five decades. Following the oceans, she turned her attention to desert floors and night skies, all subjects in which vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous, and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive "redescribing" of the world is a means of understanding human consciousness in relation to lived experience.

The first major publication on the artist in twenty years, this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume explores the full range of Celmins's work produced since the 1960s—drawings, paintings, sculpture, and prints. Scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and a selection of excerpts from interviews with the artist illuminate her methods and techniques; survey her early years in Los Angeles, where she was part of a circle that included James Turrell and Ken Price; and trace the development of her work after she moved to New York City and befriended figures such as Robert Gober and Richard Serra.

Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (12/15/18–03/31/19) Art Gallery of Ontario (05/04/19–08/04/19) The Met Breuer, New York (09/24/19–01/12/20)

Weight: 1886g
Dimension: 306 x 247 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300234213

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