TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) – Catalonia in Venice
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A01=Bestue Guarch David
A01=Daniela Ortiz
A01=Francesc Torres
A01=Lola Lasurt
A01=Lua Coderch
A01=Pedro Azara
A01=Perejaume Perejaume
Author_Bestue Guarch David
Author_Daniela Ortiz
Author_Francesc Torres
Author_Lola Lasurt
Author_Lua Coderch
Author_Pedro Azara
Author_Perejaume Perejaume
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- ISBN 9788494423444
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 167 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Editorial Tenov S.L.
- Publication City/Country: ES
- Product Form: Paperback
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For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between humans and statues, focusing on fifteen such works from around Catalonia. At times celebrated, vandalized, protected, or destroyed, figurative sculptures have a strange capacity to inspire intense emotions, to make one “lose their head.”
The collective artist book, To Lose Your Head (Idols), includes written and artistic reflections on the exhibition’s theme, exploring the idea of artistic agency as it analyses the passions that are sparked when dealing with figurative sculpture. Pedro Azara, an architect, archaeologist, and professor of aesthetics, explores the perception of images as living entities. Looking at the deep reverence and radical iconoclastic urges inspired by works of public art, he considers how the Western artistic tradition might still be deeply animist. Six contemporary Catalan artists—David Bestué, Lúa Coderch, Lola Lasurt, Daniela Ortiz, Perejaume, and Francesc Torres—take on this question from the perspective of artistic practice, creating works and essays in response to Azara. The publication includes documentation of the exhibition and provides information on accompanying works by playwright Marcel Borràs, architect Tiziano Schürch, and filmmaker Albert García-Alzórriz, in collaboration with poet Gabriel Ventura.
The collective artist book, To Lose Your Head (Idols), includes written and artistic reflections on the exhibition’s theme, exploring the idea of artistic agency as it analyses the passions that are sparked when dealing with figurative sculpture. Pedro Azara, an architect, archaeologist, and professor of aesthetics, explores the perception of images as living entities. Looking at the deep reverence and radical iconoclastic urges inspired by works of public art, he considers how the Western artistic tradition might still be deeply animist. Six contemporary Catalan artists—David Bestué, Lúa Coderch, Lola Lasurt, Daniela Ortiz, Perejaume, and Francesc Torres—take on this question from the perspective of artistic practice, creating works and essays in response to Azara. The publication includes documentation of the exhibition and provides information on accompanying works by playwright Marcel Borràs, architect Tiziano Schürch, and filmmaker Albert García-Alzórriz, in collaboration with poet Gabriel Ventura.
Pedro Azara is professor of aesthetics at the Barcelona School of Architecture. He is the curator of To Lose Your Head (Idols) at the 58th Venice Biennale. David Bestué, Lúa Coderch, Lola Lasurt, and Daniela Ortiz are visual artists who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Perejaume is an artist and writer who lives and works in Montseny (Catalunya). Francesc Torres is a visual artist who lives and works in New York.
