Vostell
Subtitle: vida-arte-vida = Vostell : life-art-life
By: texto, Manuel Olveira
Contributors: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Publisher: Puente editores; MUSAC
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Barcelona, España; León, España
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9788494969416; 9788492572786
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Vida-arte-vida
Work titles: Works
Description: Wolf Vostell was an artist with worldwide influence, due to the fact that he invented the term dé-coll/age; did happenings, actions, installations, and videos; and, as its co-founder, participated enthusiastically in the activities of Fluxus, which offered a critique of the fetishization of television and consumer culture. This book has been edited for the exhibition, held at MUSAC (León, Spain). The exhibition features a powerful selection of installations, paintings, sculptures, and films, among other varied art media used by Vostell, from the late 50s to 1998, as well as a selection from his rich archive of documentation related to many of his most important projects. For decades, Vostell used art as a means to interrogate artistic, cultural, and social identities, resulting in a rich, complex, and provocative body of work that has consistently challenged dominant political and artistic narratives.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain, December 1, 2018-May 26, 2019.

Chiefly illustrated.

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in Spanish with English translation.