David Lamelas
Subtitle: a life of their own
By: edited by María José Herrera and Kristina Newhouse ; with contributions by Alexander Alberro, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Valeria González, Germán Gullón, María José Herrera, Inés Katzenstein, Bartomeu Marí, Kristina Newhouse, Catha Paquette, Daniel R. Quiles, Joy Sleeman, Ian White
Contributors: Herrera, María José, editor, organizer; Newhouse, Kristina, editor, organizer; California State University, Long Beach. University Art Museum; Fundación Eduardo F. Costantini; Getty Publications; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781606065433
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Interviews; Video art; Exhibitions; Artists
Description: The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas's art. The guiding analytic theme in this book is the artist's adaptability to place and circumstance, which invariably influences his creative production. Lamelas left Argentina in the mid-1960s to study at Saint Martin's in London. Since then, he divides his time among various cities. While the typical narrative invoked about artists like Lamelas is that of 'internationalism, ' Lamelas has always been more 'postnational' than 'international' in his nomadic movement, from one place or conceptual framework to the next.00Exhibition: The University Art Museum, Long Beach, California, United States (17.09.-10.12.2017).
Notes: "Exhibition Itinerary: University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, September 16-December 10, 2017; MALBA-Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, March 16-June 11, 2018."

"Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

"David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own is published on the occasion of an exhibition co-organized by Kristina Newhouse, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, and María José Herrera, El Museo de Arte Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina."
Table of contents: title: Forewords; title: David Lamelas and Buenos Aires / María José Herrera; title: David Lamelas 1966-76: the cartography of an artistic tactic / Valeria González; title: David Lamelas: a situational aesthetic (excerpt) / Inés Katzenstein; title: Scheherazade's stories: narrative and delay in Duane and Lamelas's videos, 1976-87 / Daniel R. Quiles; title: The dictator and The dictator returns: Hildegarde Duane, David Lamelas, and the video art scene in Southern California / Catha Paquette; title: Seven scenes and fourteen stills from the work of David Lamelas / Joy Sleeman; title: "A nomadic life": David Lamelas in conversation with Alexander Alberro, Los Angeles, July 26-28, 2016; title: On the road: David Lamelas interviewed by Ian White, April 2006; title: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Germán Gullón, David Lamelas, and Bartomeu Mari in conversation, Instituto Cervantes, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 14, 1997.