Mona hatoum white cube book

It takes the form of a paravent or roomdivider, one full of huge holes, and it demonstrates that an everyday kitchen object might be a kind of screen. A comprehensive exploration into 35 years of hatoums work in britain, from. Bunker 25 february 2011 02 april 2011 white cube masons yard art categories events, exhibition mona hatoums poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Mona hatoum exhibition remains to be seen at the white. Mona hatoums works explore themes of home and displacement through the perspective of the palestinian exile, using common domestic objects that often, on closer inspection, reveal menacing qualities. Mona hatoum is a contemporary palestinianbritish installation and video artist. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the. My first encounter with the work of mona hatoum was nearly 20 years ago, at the pompidou centre in paris. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global. Mona hatoum, performance still, 198595, gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum, 30 116 x 42 12 inches 76.

Mona hatoum, remains to be seen, white cube bermondsey 12 september 3 november 2019 mona hatoum. Mona hatoums most recent exhibition, terra infirma, destabilizes universal notions of home, displacement, and global conflicts. Mona hatoums poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including the turner prize 1995, venice biennale 1995 and 2005, documenta, kassel 2002 and 2017, biennale of sydney 2006, istanbul biennial 1995 and 2011 and moscow biennale of contemporary art 20. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of. This book focuses on three new works created for the tate. Since the beginning of the 1990s her work has shifted towards installation and sculpture.

The first presentation of her work in london since tate modern in 2016, it includes new and recent installation, sculpture and works on paper. Nature morte aux grenades takes its title from a stilllife painting by henri matisse, of pomegranates and other fruit on a table. In her work, hatoum has been consistently passionate about. Dinos and jake chapman, tracey emin, lucian freud, antony gormley, sarah lucas, marcus harvey, mona hatoum, damien hirst, gary hume, marc quinn, sam taylorwood and gavin turk. Mona hatoums most famous work lies in wait around the first corner of this show, a spectacle of fleshy revulsion and creeping claustrophobia. Remains to be seen by mona hatoum at white cube bermondsey. She first became known for a series of performance and video pieces which focused with great intensity on the body. However, mona hatoum here plays with the homophone of grenade french for both pomegranate and grenade, and what sounds like an innocent subject is in fact a representation of deadly weapons.

She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including the turner prize 1995, venice biennale 1995 and 2005, documenta, kassel 2002 and 2017, biennale of sydney 2006, istanbul biennial 1995 and 2011 and moscow biennale of. White cube, london acquired from the above by the present owner in april 2000. Indeed the electric current ran through mona hatoums whole show at tate modern. After its premiere at the menil collection in houston, the artists first american survey show in over twenty years travels to the pulitzer arts foundation in st. Her sculpture, video, drawings, and installations have been widely exhibited throughout the world. As reproduced in our new contemporary artist series monograph having been born in beirut into a palestinian family, but then having embarked on a longterm residency in london in 1975 when civil war broke out in lebanon, the subject of home has always been a fraught one for the artist mona hatoum. Mona hatoums measures of distance is a reflection of. Nature morte aux grenades yale university art gallery.

White cube masons yard peter schuyff march 2020 16 may 2020. As andrew renton has noted, although hatoum has consistently employed the shape of the cube in works such as socle du monde 1995, current disturbance 1996 or cageadeux 2002, this sculpture seems to be called cube not just to indicate what it is, but to mark how far from the form it is able to stray while retaining cognitive markers. Gift of barbara lee, the barbara lee collection of art by women. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes. Most of mona hatoums time over the past four years has been focused. The hiroshima art prize was established by the city of hiroshima to recognize the achievements of artists who spread the spirit of hiroshima, which seeks everlasting world peace, and aim to appeal to a wider world through contemporary art. Remains to be seen white cube is pleased to present an exhibition by mona hatoum. Mona hatoum at the centre pompidou in pictures art radar.

The latest exhibition from beirutborn, sometime turner prizenominee mona hatoum best known for sending a camera through her inner tubes and projecting the results explores themes of displacement and geographical and political tension. Terra infirma is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue with essays by anna chave, adania shibli, rebecca solnit, and michelle white. It was first opened in a small, square room in may 1993 in duke street, st jamess, a traditional art dealing street in the west end of london. London, white cube, mona hatoum, grater divide, may 24 june 22, 2002 another example exhibited. See available sculpture, photographs, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. The centres commitment to the artists work is now being renewed 21 years later with mona hatoum 24 june 28 september 2015, a major exhibition of the lebanesepalestinian artists oeuvre spanning her career from the 1970s to the present. Born in beirut in 1952 of palestinian parents, the british. However, whereas minimalists evoked the cube form to argue that art has a reality distinct from that of the outside world, hatoum reenvisions the cube, by relying on the physical material of barbed wire to emphasize the connection and disconnection at times between art. London tate moderns retrospective of mona hatoum spans the artists 35year career, and she has made a lot of art. Mona hatoum was born in 1952 in beirut, lebanon to palestinian parents. In 1994, the centre pompidou in paris organised mona hatoums first solo exhibition in a museum.

Louis, where it will be on view beginning april 2018. See more ideas about installation art, contemporary art and art. Hatoums collection of sculptures and installations incorporates motifs of containment and violence, from steel cages and sandbag walls to. Remains to be seen, opening at white cube bermondsey next week. The palestinianlebanese artist rose to prominence with the harrowing sevenhour performance under siege 1982, where, naked and covered in liquid clay, she would slip onto her knees again and again while trying to stand up within a large transparent container. Although born in lebanon, hatoum was ineligible for a lebanese identification card, and does not identify as lebanese.

Hatoum s work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of mobility and conflict. The art historian tamar garb has commented in her chapter on mona hatoum in the book women artists at the millennium that philosopher and writer walter benjamin made the brilliant assertion that the electric cord is the modern equivalent. Historically, her work has tackled a range of issues from global conflict and surveillance to confinement and violence. Mona hatoum was born in 1952 in beirut, lebanon, to palestinian parents.

Mona hatoum was born into a palestinian family in beirut, lebanon in 1952 and has lived in london since 1975. To say that hatoums work is electrifying is perhaps a bit corny, given the literally electric component of much of her work, but i think it is completely apt. Jay jopling white cube london november 1, 2006 language. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Mona hatoum british of palestinian origin, born in beirut, lebanon 1952. White cube is a gallery owned and run by the art dealer jay jopling an old etonian and son of a conservative mp who, until september 2008, was married to artist sam taylorwood. In speaking of her process, the artist talks of how psychology enables art to. Mona hatoum, white cube, bermondsey culture whisper. Although born in lebanon, hatoum was ineligible for a lebanese identity card and does not identify as lebanese. Mona hatoum at alexander and bonin, nyc march 2011.

In that location there was a gallery rule that an artist. But at the same time hatoum conjures the powerfulness of playfulness in the face of all the absolutisms and determinisms, a state of possibility and creativity, voiced, for instance, in a book such as johan huizingas homo ludens 1938, where playfulness creates a different order, and where, when modern warfare is a disconnect from the deeply. I met mona hatoum in december 1994 when we were installing our work, side by side, at the reina sophia in madrid. Hatoums works mine geopolitics, gender, art history, and her own past. Web and cube were first exhibited at galleria continua, san gimigniano, italy from 20 may to 2 september 2006colophon. Consider, for example, performance artist mona hatoums variation on discord and divisions, which for us evoked jeremiahs symbolic uses of his poetic books see plates 2 and 3.

Jay joplingwhite cube london november 1, 2006 language. White cube by white cube and a great selection of related books. The exhibition was called cocido y crudo, the raw and the cooked. Born in lebanon in 1952 to palestinian parents and then stranded in london after the outbreak of war at home, hatoums themes were quick. Mona hatoum is wary of simplistic, readymade judgments, all the more so because she has often had to endure their extreme brutality. They are mona hatoum, the palestinianbritish, longtime white cube artist and former yba, and the us artist, curator, author and activist harmony hammond, for whom it. Mona hatoum, hot spot, held at white cube, london, nov. Mona hatoums grater divide 2002 is a cheesegrater nearly seven feet high. Mona hatoum was born in beirut in 1952, to palestinian parents, and settled in london in 1975. Mona hatoum exhibition remains to be seen at the white cube and other artists harmony hammond. Mona hatoum has been selected as the winner of the 10th hiroshima art prize. The exhibition will travel to the pulitzer arts foundation in st. Mona hatoum remains 2017 photo courtesy white cube. Photo white cube theo christelis hot spot stand 2018, a steel globe delineating the continents of the earth in red neon light, derives from the work hatoum originally created back in 2006.