Contemporary Latinx Art that combines beauty, Violence and Post-Colonial Aesthetics
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Tamara Kostianovsky
Rapacious Beauty
Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America. Today, these emotionally charged materials coalesce in a post-colonial vision for an ecological future.
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Tamara Kostianovsky creates sculptures from textiles that address the relationship between landscapes, the body, and violence. This volume highlights distinct bodies of her work including sculptures of butchered carcasses, slayed birds, and severed trees. Built with layers of texture, color, and emotion, these works dive head-first into the tension between beauty and horror, confronting histories of systemic violence and transforming them into utopian environments.
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The catalogue offers the most expansive overview to date of the artist’s moving and inventive oeuvre. // Der Katalog bietet den bisher umfangreichsten Überblick über das bewegende und einfallsreiche Werk des Künstlers.
Hyperallergic
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Ed. Gonzalo Casals
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Essay by Rachel Vera Steinberg. Interview with the artist by Tatiana Flores
80 pages, 55 colour illustrations22,9 x 22,9 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3917-4
Events
Brooklyn
| Smack Mellon
Keywords
Sculpture, 21st century, contemporary art
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