Elisabeth Wild by Adam Szymczyk - ISBN: 9783956795794
Hardcover
Kaleidoscopic collages reveal a singular artist’s vibrant, witty, and menacing world.

Elisabeth Wild

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  • Hardcover

    168 pages

  • Release Date

    19 October 2021

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Summary

A tribute to Elisabeth Wild’s kaleidoscopic and vibrant collages, with contributions that frame the importance of this singular artist’s work and life.

This beautifully designed monograph exhibits Elisabeth Wild’s kaleidoscopic and vibrant collages. Using cutouts of commercial imagery from glossy magazines, Wild composes a dimensionless reality that is witty yet menacing, ancient yet immortal. Imagining figures that are structural and anatomical, her work presents a shimmering dream l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956795794
ISBN-10:3956795792
Author:Adam Szymczyk
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:168
Release Date:19 October 2021
Weight:544g
Dimensions:241mm x 171mm x 14mm
About The Author

Adam Szymczyk

Adam Szymczyk is a Polish art critic and curator. He was Artistic Director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017, and Director at Kunsthalle Basel from 2004 to 2014. He is guest lecturer at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna as well as at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany.

Born in Austria, Eisabeth Wild fled to Argentina during WWII with her parents. In 1962 the family escaped the regime of Juan Peron and found a new home in Basel, Switzerland. Wild opened an antique shop at St. Johannstor which became the outlet for her creativity at the time and also supported her and her family financially. In 2007 Wild joined her daughter Vivian Suter in the remote Guatemalan village of Panajachel. Up until her death at the age of 98, Wild was carefully crafting her light-hearted, joyous abstract worlds walking the line between construction and deconstruction. Alongside her daughter Elisabeth Wild has exhibited at Kunsthalle Basel, documenta 14, and the Powerplant in Toronto.

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