Vittoria Martini

Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival. The Ambassador's Diary

Vittoria Martini
Claire Bishop, Vittoria Martini, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lisa Lee, Mignon Nixon, Marcus Steinweg, Neil Holt
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h210 x 140mm - 176pg
26 Jan 2023 GE
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9783775752626
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The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam' s south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as positive and creative: a means of asserting the importance of the moment and of the place, of asserting the Here and Now to touch eternity and universality. Appreciating the art historian' s presence as a central element of his sculpture, Hirschhorn consciously challenged the certainties of the profession by empowering and activating the role, thus leading Martini to find a new working methodology that she calls "precarious art history". Accompanying the readers through her experience of the physical existence of The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, Martini' s commentary leads to the profound understanding of how a work that no longer exists physically, can live on in the mind- elsewhere, at some other time-because in the meantime it has become universal.
Paris-based artist THOMAS HIRSCHHORN (*1957, Bern) is best known for his sculptures in public space (more than seventy to the present day) - monuments, kiosks, altars such as his Bataille Monument which was set up in a residential area in Kassel during documenta 11. Questioning the autonomy, the authorship and resistance of a work of art, he asserts the power of art to touch and transform the other. The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival (2009) is one of such projects, the Gramsci Monument in The Bronx, New York (2013), and more recently in 2019 the Robert Walser-Sculpture in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. He represented Switzerland at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and received the Prix Marcel Duchamp, the Joseph Beuys Stiftung Prize, and the Meret Oppenheim Prize, among others. VITTORIA MARTINI is an independent art historian with a focus on the history of exhibitions and the economics of contemporary art. Her main research topic is the institutional, topographic, cultural, and social history of the Venice Biennale.
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ISBN-13: 9783775752626
Published: 26 Jan 2023
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 176

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