Koo Jeong A
Subtitle: Constellation Congress
By: edited by Yasmil Raymond ; with essays by Molly Nesbit [and eight others]
Contributors: Dia Art Foundation
Publisher: Dia Art Foundation; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780300188806
Subjects: ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; Exibitions; ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
Description: "Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the first critical study of Koo's work, looks at the past two decades of her artistic practice, including her recent multimedia presentation commissioned by Dia Art Foundation. Following the artist's longtime interest in natural phenomena and sensory experience, Constellation Congress features a diverse group of texts encompassing art historical, philosophical, scientific, and literary voices that offer insightful considerations into the intricacies of the artist's method and conception of art in which the most ordinary objects--a puddle of water, a pile of charcoal, or a ray of light--are graced with dignity and reverence"--
Notes: This book was published in conjunction with the presentation of Koo Jeong A's Constellation Congress, which opened on November 5, 2010, at three sites: Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York (through May 2, 2011); Dia at The Hispanic Society of America, New York City (through June 26, 2011); and the Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York (through October 16, 2011).