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Subject(s)

• Baghramian, Nairy 1971-—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Sculpture, German—21st century—Exhibitions [Browse]

Artist

• Baghramian, Nairy, 1971- [Browse]

Editor

• Craft, Catherine [Browse]

Author

• Craft, Catherine [Browse]
• Mehretu, Julie, 1970- [Browse]
• Nesin, Kate [Browse]
• Pobocha, Paulina [Browse]

Host institution

• Nasher Sculpture Center [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Summary note

Over the past three decades, Iranian-born, German-based artist Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) has created sculptures and installations that upend expected modes of presentation and challenge the architectural, social, political and historical contexts that inform them. The new works featured in this publication explore the provisional body as the site of trauma, drawing inspiration from the tradition of the modèle vivant, the French term for a live model in an art class. In her "ambivalently abstract" works, the artist takes unconventional approaches to materials associated with sculptural traditions of casting, including aluminum, lead, steel and wax. In conversation with sculptures from the Nasher's permanent collection by Louise Bourgeois, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and others, Baghramian's works offer new ways to think about representations of bodies and the unseen labor of models, as well as the linguistic play afforded by different meanings of the word "model" and its linguistic relatives, such as "modulate" and "modify" Exhibition: Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (15.10.2022-08.01.2023).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, October 15, 2022-January 8, 2023.

Contents

• Foreword and acknowledgments / Jeremy Strick
• Round and Round: A Preface / Catherine Craft
• Conversations / Catherine Craft
• Listening to Modèle vivant: On the liberation of the figure / Julie Mehretu
• Models for Living / Kate Nesin
• A Heap of Parts / Paulina Pobocha
• List of Works
• Selected Biography and Bibliography
• Copyright and Photography Credits.

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Other title(s)

Modèle vivant

ISBN

• 163681123X (hardcover)
• 9781636811239 (hardcover)

OCLC

1400973198

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