Tala Madani
Subtitle: biscuits
By: edited by Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery and Ali Subotnick
Contributors: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MACK
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Los Angeles; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781913620806
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; American Art
Description: "Tala Madani: Biscuits accompanies the first North American survey of the Iranian-born artist's paintings and animations. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the exhibition brings together fifteen years of the artist's incisive work, highlighting the often absurd socio-cultural dynamics enacted within Madani's art and, more broadly, the potent and combustible relationship between art history and global history. The publication is the most comprehensive on Madani's work to date. Paintings and animations from Madani's major series dating from 2005 to the present are represented by approximately eighty plates, which offer a rare look at the rich process by which the artist develops her ribald menagerie of characters"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, September 10, 2022 - February 20, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Selected sketches, 2006-21 --; title: Director's foreword --; title: Curators' acknowledgments --; title: Shit in the cannon  -- Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowert; title: The date of Tala Madani  -- Maggie Nelson; title: Down to the bone : on Madani's animations  -- Evan Calder Williams; title: Talking shit: an interview with Tala Madani -- Ali Subotnick.