Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh by Bice Curiger

Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh by Bice Curiger

Sumptuous wallpaper installations in conversation with Van Gogh's final works

Published with Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles.

This catalog brings together works by Los Angeles-based artist Laura Owens (born 1970) and seven paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in the last years of his life. Confined to her studio in Arles during the months of lockdown in 2020, Owens immersed herself in the life and works of Van Gogh, a process which left traces of his sensibilities in the commissioned work that followed. Transforming the space of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Owens created a monumental wallpaper using various handcrafted and digital techniques. The motifs of these rooms, which draw a suspended universe between the premodern and the contemporary, are inspired by the works of the English designer Winifred How, and enter into a close dialogue with Van Gogh's paintings, which are hung on the elaborately adorned walls.

Bice Curiger is an art historian and a critic. She has organized several exhibitions in various parts of the world and is currently the curator of the Zurich Kunsthaus. Curiger is also editor in chief of Parkett magazine and publishing director of Tate etc., London's Tate Gallery art magazine. She's the author of various publications on contemporary art.

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ISBN 13	9783753301419
ISBN 10	3753301418
Title	Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh
Author	Bice Curiger
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Walther Koenig
Year published	2021-12-01
Number of pages	308
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