Tumbleweeds Catcher
Gianni Pettena
2/5 series
Captures éditions
English
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Housed in a vanilla envelope with other publications from the 2/5 series (2020–2022)
420 x 594 mm
2021
ISBN 9782491549121
Gianni Pettena (born in Bolzano,1940) reinterprets his work Tumbleweeds Catcher, a performance conducted with students from the University of Utah where Pettena was visiting professor in 1971 and 1972. Pettena erects a wooden tower in downtown Salt Lake City to capture tumbleweeds, dry bushes moved along by the wind in the Great American West. On the front cover, Pettena’s text reveals his performance, an ode to nature, which would take its revenge on a space controlled by man. Folded into A5.
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About the Artist
Àngels Ribé (Barcelona, 1943) is part of a generation of artists who embarked on their careers in the late sixties, in the midst of profound political and social changes that had a direct impact on the way artistic practice is conceived. Shedding the status of autonomous aesthetic entity that it had laid claim to during modernity, the work of art opened up to a process of dematerialisation and socialisation that brought about new relationships with the spectator, the art institution and the market. In 1967, stifled by the oppressive atmosphere of Barcelona, Àngels Ribé left for France to study sociology. Settling in Paris, she participated in the May 1968 movements and soon began working in the studio of the sculptor Piotr Kowalski. By this time, she had discovered her artistic vocation. In 1969, she publicly presented her first installation, Laberint: a circular labyrinth made of transparent yellow plastic that turned the exhibition space into a flowing stage of paths improvised by the spectators. In the seventies, Ribé moved to the United States (Chicago and New York) and came into contact with a series of alternative art spaces that reflected the emerging art scene. It was then that she consolidated the basic elements of the artistic grammar which had started to take shape in her Parisian period, and that her de-emphasising of the object became apparent. Ribé created ephemeral installations and performances, which she documented poetically through photography. H In the eighties, Ribé returned to Spain and revived her interest in the objectual nature of the artwork and its sculptural embodiment. She began working with iron and –from 2000 on– with neon lights – which re-connected her to the incorporeal nature of light and space – and at the same time produced an extensive body of graphic work.
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About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
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