Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Subtitle: 1887-2058
By: edited by Emma Lavigne, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Contributors: Lavigne, Emma, editor; Centre Georges Pompidou; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783791355283; 9783941773356
Subjects: Installations (Art); Exhibitions
Other titles: 1887-2058
Description: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster says she is a "prisoner of literature." In her installations, videoprojections and "apparitions" (performances) she tells amazing stories and uses a remarkable range of formal possibilities. This richly illustrated volume not only documents a new work by the French exceptional artist - a labyrinth of spatial installations that leads the viewer to an inner journey through time, the world of cinema, literature and science - but also marks her extraordinary career, from the sensational exhibition in the Tate Modern turbines to her bookstores at the Hispanic Society of America in New York. A number of essays by leading art experts address Gonzalez-Foerster's use of film, architecture and music as a means of self-exploration and artistic expression. An impressive and at the same time very personal portrait of an artist and her confrontation with time and literature, identity and narration.
Notes: Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Galerie sud, 23 September 2015 - 1 February 2016, and at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 23 April - 7 August 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220) and filmography (page 221).

In English; essays translated from French and foreword from German.
Table of contents: title: I am Heathcliff, I am Ludwig, I am Lola, I am Fitzcarraldo ...  -- Emma Lavigne; title: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : "Not necessary to do a definitive work"  -- Catherine Millet; title: Gardens, parks, landscapes, environments, exhibitions, museums, pavilions, tropics, beaches, swimming pools, deserts, microclimates, immersions, heterotopias ...  -- Pablo León de la Barra; title: DGF Granada  -- an e-mail exchange between Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (D) and Enrique Vila Matas (E); title: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : from cinema to the filmic arts  -- Nicole Brenez; title: The extimacy of textiles  -- Tristan Bera; title: I am Bob, I am Vicky, I am Ann Lee, I am the boy with green hair, and all the others ...  -- Emma Lavigne; title: Selected fragments -- Elia Biezunski.