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Reading between the threads

Amer, Ghada, 1963-2001
Books, Manuscripts
Imprint:
Henie Onstad Art Centre, 2001
Collation:
64 pages : ill
Notes:
Selene Wendt is an art historian, independent curator, and founder of The Global Art Project. She has written and edited numerous books including The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art (Skira), Fresh Paint (Edizione Charta), When a Painting Moves...Something Must be Rotten! (Edizione Charta) (co-edited with Paco Barragán), Crispin Gurholt Live Photo II (Skira) and Marianne Heske +/o (Skira). She has curated many international exhibitions with accompanying catalogues for each exhibition, including Farhad Kalantary A New Beginning, Siri Hermansen Bipolar Horizon, Bjørn Opsahl Ask the Dust, Abbas Kiarostami Shadows in the Snow, Magne Furuholmen Payne's Gray, Daniele Buetti Will Beauty Save the World, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Mil Maneras Para Decir Adios, Liza Lou Leaves of Glass, Ghada Amer Reading Between the Threads and Shirin Neshat Beyond Orientalism. She has also curated large-scale thematic group exhibitions such as The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art, co-curated with Khwezi Gule, Equatorial Rhythms, which featured visual artists whose works are influenced by music, A Doll's House, which included artists whose works are influenced by doll symbolism, Art Through the Eye of the Needle, which addressed the breakdown of barriers between art and fashion and Postcards from Cuba: A Selection from the Eighth Havanna Biennal. She regularly contributes essays and articles for journals and publications around the world.
ISBN:
9788290955477
Language:
English
BRN:
4157526
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