Hearing You with My Eyes
The human body in focus - a sensual approach to our material being
독일 출신의 미국 작가 키키 스미스(Kiki Smith, 1954)는 페미니스트이자 판화가 조각가, 책 제작자입니다. 여성의 몸을 에로틱한 관점으로 표현하는 미술사의 지배적 표현에 반기를 들고, 몸 그 자체에 대한 연약함과 솔직함을 강조했습니다. 그의 작품은 몸에 대한 명상이기도 합니다.
이 책은 스위스 로잔의 Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts 전시회와 함께 출판되었습니다. 그의 40년 동안의 예술 작품들에 대한 조사를 제공합니다.
The work of American artist Kiki Smith, born 1954, is a meditation on the body. Smith observes every aspect of corporal materiality and the conditions that shape our life on earth: physically, spiritually, and politically, but also with regard to emotive categories like control and disgust. Her earlier work often fragmented the body into organs, fluids, and senses. Later, she depicted it as an envelope. Yet in her most recent art she has taken a step back to evoke mankind’s relationship with its environment. Smith uses a wide range of materials and techniques, with a particular interest in the fragility and expressive potential of paper and its resemblance to human skin.
This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, offers a survey of some forty years of Kiki Smith’s art making, exmining in particular the sensory dimension of her output.. Richly illustrated, the book confronts the reader with their own body and invites reflection on their role within the entire world.
Laurence Schmidlin is a curator for contemporary art at Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hearing You with My Eyes
The human body in focus - a sensual approach to our material being
독일 출신의 미국 작가 키키 스미스(Kiki Smith, 1954)는 페미니스트이자 판화가 조각가, 책 제작자입니다. 여성의 몸을 에로틱한 관점으로 표현하는 미술사의 지배적 표현에 반기를 들고, 몸 그 자체에 대한 연약함과 솔직함을 강조했습니다. 그의 작품은 몸에 대한 명상이기도 합니다.
이 책은 스위스 로잔의 Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts 전시회와 함께 출판되었습니다. 그의 40년 동안의 예술 작품들에 대한 조사를 제공합니다.
The work of American artist Kiki Smith, born 1954, is a meditation on the body. Smith observes every aspect of corporal materiality and the conditions that shape our life on earth: physically, spiritually, and politically, but also with regard to emotive categories like control and disgust. Her earlier work often fragmented the body into organs, fluids, and senses. Later, she depicted it as an envelope. Yet in her most recent art she has taken a step back to evoke mankind’s relationship with its environment. Smith uses a wide range of materials and techniques, with a particular interest in the fragility and expressive potential of paper and its resemblance to human skin.
This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, offers a survey of some forty years of Kiki Smith’s art making, exmining in particular the sensory dimension of her output.. Richly illustrated, the book confronts the reader with their own body and invites reflection on their role within the entire world.
Laurence Schmidlin is a curator for contemporary art at Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts in Lausanne, Switzerland.
