Silvia kolbowski biography
- Silvia Kolbowski is an.
- Silvia Kolbowski (New York) is a time-based media artist, who addresses questions of historicization, political resistance, and the unconscious.
- Silvia Kolbowski is an Argentine-born American artist who works primarily with video and installation formats, as well as photography, often using historical figures and events to analyze cultural phenomena and power imbalances.
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ARTIST MONOGRAPHS
Silvia Kolbowski: Inadequate Like...Power
Published by Walther König, Köln.
Interview by Hal Foster. Essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and Mignon Nixon.
Documented here is Silvia Kolbowski's work from the 1980s through to today. At the center are the works, An Inadequate History of Conceptual Art, Like Looking Away, and her newest work, Proximity to Power: American Style. Accompanying these works are illustrations, text-excerpts and project-statements by the artist.
PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 176 pgs / 60 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/15/2005
Out of print
DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 136
PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783883758947SDNR30
List Price: $40.00 CAD $50.00
AVAILABILITY
Not available
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Silvia Kolbowski, That Monster: An Allegory
The conceptual artist Silvia Kolbowski began working on her new video, That Monster: An Allegory (2018), in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election. The air of American life was thick with animosity, and like soot from a forest fire, it spread far beyond the burn. Both sides of the political spectrum were consumed, in Kolbowski’s words, with such ‘sheer hatred’ that political disagreement became grounds to start a brawl or end a relationship. Grandmothers famously unfriended their grandchildren and in-laws refused to visit. Opting out of family holiday gatherings became not only common, but almost obligatory, if one’s family included resolute Trumpers. In November 2018, the liberal Democrat New York Timescolumnist Maureen Dowd wrote an op-ed anticipating an upcoming vacation with her brother, who was not only a Trump supporter, but a friend and defender of Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican Supreme Court justice accused of sexual assault. Dowd used the article to reflect on how (and whether) a relationship can
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The Reanimators
by Alan Moore
In the wake of the massive "Global Conceptualism" exhibition at the Queens Museum this summer, two smaller exhibitions of Conceptual art have taken a more focused retrospective tone at century's end. At P.S. 1 in Queens, the British art group Art & Language put together a kind of wailing wall of socialism. And at American Fine Arts in SoHo, Silvia Kolbowski has a video and audio installation that monumentalizes the artists' tête-á-tête.
Art & Language's project was a backward look at their own history. Titled "The Artist Out of Work," the installation began as impenetrable propaganda and ended up decorative -- the first room contained ranks of gray index cabinets, the long central gallery was hung with framed posters, texts and journal covers, and the final room was filled with a structure of brightly colored canvases.
Although the show consisted of work from 1972 to 1981, we couldn't call it a retrospective since organizers Michael Corris and Neil Powell
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