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recall. Without memories we woutd live in a state of
amnesia'
ln an obvious sense and at a certain level' all painting'
the past in the
history' No However, a false nostalgia, the desire to rebuild
filmmaking, sculpture and installations call upon
there is none present const¡tutes a non-creative strain of the sentimental'
medium of artistic expression exists in a void;
repetition has
As Ssren Kierkegaard, pointed out long ago'
a
thatdoesnothaveamate¡ialoftechnologicalhistoryattached
into the
dialectical relationship with the past that is brought
to it. The question is, however, whether a given artistic
present, "Repetition and recollection are the same movement'
practice merely tecapitulates or extends the discursive
has been'
relerence' only in opposite directions; for what is recollected
historical contents of the sources to which it makes
true sense
they at is repeated backwards, whereas repetition in the
ln the case of the double act Muntean/Rosenblum'
is recollected forwards."rThe use of repetition thus
converts
times deliberately re-articulate the gestures and
physical
the mind'
and proiects, while simple recollection can stultify
iconography of history painting, renewing them within a
re-enacted'
Repetition is the past renewed rather than merely
contemporary idiom of express¡on That the gestures and
but quite
The rtists in this chapter deal with the past in decisive
physical expressions themselves are visually well known'
is a
revivifies
same time different ways. A double act like Stepanek & Maslin
linked not only to their historical origins, but atthe
and with an
landscapes and skyviews from unique viewpoints'
to the factthatthey are in a constant state of repetition
and
the Starn
again and again intense colour saturation and presence' By contrast'
mediation within modern culture They appear
what in
Brothers miqht be said to engage with natural history'
through sources such as popular advertising and
magazines'
and this is so Germany was once called Naturgeschichte' and which they
History is thus ineluctably linked to our memory'
and material
manner' develop in relation to scientific human thought
whether it is executed in a conscious or unconscious
investiqate
expression. Jane and Louise Wilson frequently
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innovation
The boundary between historical determinism and
recent
within the context the spatial dreams and aspirations of technological
remains opaque, and can only be argued for
sense of
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eventtaking place on the stage steps of a dance
club, w¡th a Renaissance convention of the upturned head
and skyward
silver glitter ball, and suggesting that the young
men, having gaze of a feigned reverie.
taken off their T-Shirts, are in the post-event
of a dance or However, it is not of immediate importance
that we
rave. Portrayed is the shipwreck of a night
of excess, with a recognise these obvious historical sources;
they are, after all,
concomitant hope and longing for an event
that has meaning. part of the collective unconscious of images
the we derive
We are allfamiliar with the ,down,effects (the young,
perhaps from art history. So I return again to question
what Muntean/
more so) that follow upon an escapist night
of excess. As Bosenblum are able to bring to an analytical
understanding
with all their paintings, specificity has turned into
the non- of that which constitutes contemporary figurative painting
specific, for though it makes a reference to
a historic source today. ln a whole series of recent painting
s like lJntitled (lt
the outcome is completely displaced. ln the years
since 2005, was as though...), lJntitled (The landscape looked
both...),
and the move from acrylic to oil on canvas,
the use of gesture (2006), and unt¡tted (Memories
are a great trap...), (2007),
and pose in Muntean/Rosenblum,s paintings
has become ever there is a decisive shift ¡n formal terms. Rather
than their
more compositionally exaggerated and referential.
While they earlier frieze-like presentation there is greater
composit¡onal
are darker in tone (suggest¡ng a gravitation
from Mannerism gesture and posed complexity, allied
of repoussoir
to the use
to the Baroque, allied to the new use of oil), older prophetic
in a painting like unt¡tted (The landscape looked
both...).
but usually passivery posed mare and femare
characters have The figures block and shape the recessive
depth, creating
been increasingly included. lt should be said,
however, that a parallax effect of the poles on the left with the
rail track
they are more like figures than characters since
they do not and figures on the right. The gestures and poses
of the left
create or intend precise or defined character¡sations.
The figures also recall something of the earlier
Géricault subJect,
active poses are invariably (though not always)
taken by the while on the right they are reminiscent of a Donateilo
rerief,
y0unger figures. A contemporary Raphaelesque
Madonna and where, perhaps, the iconography of forward
stretched arms
child appears in rocky landscape called lJnt¡tled (The
sky was finds its ultimate origins. The blond_haired youth
lies supine
pale...)(2006), or an ecstatic bearded
older man with arms and foreshortened on the railway lines foreground,
unharmed
raised in an urban industrial sett¡ng as in lJntitted (There
are and apparently (as yet) inviolate. No train
is in view that m¡ght
days when everything...) (2006). In both cases
they follow the run across these desolate urban rail lines,
and the subject
o
left The Vellow
The posed figures like figure holding a rifle and seated centre
matter is quite del¡berately hysterical
almost identical with
themselves lt is blanket with its V-inverted drapery folds'
arethus representative of a desolation in
Florentine
the non-making of a those invented in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century
a fragmented narrative painting about
painting. Paradoxically, perhaps' among the most striking
determinatenarrative.Thecomposedfiguresareconcerned
is their ability to have
achievements of Muntean/Rosenblum
withtheirownconditionofbeingjustfigures'andasusual
distinctions between
gives no illumination or fundamentally digested and elided former
the accompanying text or aphorism
set the two positions
abstraction and figuration lf modernism
Structuredaccesstowhatisactuallytakingplace.Throughout
dichotomy between
the hermeneutics apart, indeed, created an arbitrary
allthe painted works of Munteani Rosenblum'
Muntean/Rosenblum's
challenged' How can abstraction and figuration, transposing
of painting are always questioned and
block relations can be
mean? What is being figurative compositions into abstract
this image be interpreted? What do they This is
achieved instantaneously in the mind of the viewer'
said? The same effects are evident
ln a landscape setting
(Memories are a
particularly true of a painting l\ke Untitled
was as though" )' where we feel we
(lt are
such as untitled
is formally echoed
a Baroque or operatic greattrap...),where the suspended car shell
looking at a compositional stage set -
in the figure's open black
jacket and scissored legs Muntean/
the visual relocation
theatre performance conveyed through
Rosenblum paintings seem to suggest they are less about
into contemporary dress lt is a theatre of compositional
subject matter than ab0ut the matter
of painting suborned by
interrelations,theforeshortenedyouthwithhisarms
a subject that merely reinforces
their reality as paintings The
with the cowboy-
outstretched forming an arc of inclusion
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contemporary figure pa¡nting
ago, whirst they were both studying
(as painting) has become at st Martin.s schoor of
something of an echo, a shifting
Art, where they both trained as painters.s
ground that is never certain Alice Stepanek is
and/or perpetually indeterminate. German and born in Berlin, and
Steven Maslin is English from
Hence the works of Muntean/Rosenblum are not literal
London. After their studies they
paintings of contemporary life
settled in West Berlin, and
in the modernist sense of the
later in the lgg0s, moved to Cologne.
After some years Iiving as
tradition instituted by Édouard Manet,
and they do not attempt
a couple double act, they have now
continued a professional
t0 transcend history painting so
much as expose to v¡ew its partnership, in which they
work together on their paintings.
fragile (sometimes facile) and eternally
repeatable vocabulary. The paintings since the mid_90s,
have concentrated on issues
lf they are laments, as has already
been stated, they are the
of perception related to landscapes
while sometimes alludrng
lamentations of human empt¡ness,
the isolated mantra of an to speed and motion. Their works are
a sort of compendium
eternal return or incessant repetit¡on.
ln short, they are the of natural landscapes that are at
times presented as if seen
m0st common commodity of our
everyday Iives, but particularly
from a polnt of speed, while at the
same time possessing
s0 am0ng a youth culture with promised
expectations which are elements of the stat¡c within the
same painting. Their work
easily suffused into an ennui of
lassitude and disappointment.
in the 90s, having been described
as a,,way of looking, a
The artists Alice Stepanek and
Steven Maslin mixture of fragmented and compressed
perception, becomes
also deal with many of the traditional
conventions of painting, a gaze caught in a permanent process
though in their case it is determined of passage..,o ¡ye¡s
by another genre. They recently the use of the static
image has become directly
paint largery randscapes and
what they have cailed skyviews,
expressed as a heightened perceptual experience,
often bringing together the contrary and in
visuar aspects of stasis th¡s respect (though different from
Muntean/Bosenblum in
and speed. There is never a human presence.
ln other words, every other) they also question the
Iimits of landscape genre
the present the mutable and immutable
contents of the world, in contemporary painting. The greater
an appearance of change ¡n juxtaposition
distinction between
with an unchanging the German/English and Austrian/lsraeli
circularity of seasonal regularity. double acts is a
Their approach is a form c0ncern with phenomenological
or perceptual affects, rather
of heightened realism fused with pictorial
artifice. They met than conceptually hermeneutic figurative
in a London pub in Charing Cross Road, effects enacted by
twenty-five years painting today. ln a painting
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presents the optical contradistinctions.
The foreground space red in tooth and claw,. often suggesting
parkland sett¡ngs or
shows a large bush stretched across
the centre field, as if landscapes groomed, harvested
and/or maintained by human
0ne were passing at speed in a car
or train. By contrast in the
intervention. This has led one writer
to speak of them in terms
mid-ground left and rear ground
they show a stat¡c content of the technological sublime, as ,,three
of the paradigmatic
with meticurous ¡ntensity. This bifurcation,
or doubred sense conditions of modern perception:
the speed factol the view
of perception, was part¡curarry typicar of their work in the
from outside, and artificial lighting."z
And, though it is a cliché
1990s, through to the miilennium. stepanek
& Masrin.s interest that should not be overstated, they
further develop and extend
at the time was forest and woodland
night scenes. A strong the great tradition of German/English
landscape painting.
emphasis on seasonal changes
was also considered at that
Stepanek & Maslin,s more recent
paintings
time, with works dealing with forests
or general snow scenes, have shown a marked shift towards
the aerial/sidereal and
and occasional townscape horizons
as seen from a vrewpoint
macrocos¡nic v¡ewpo¡nts, alongside
their primary terrestr¡al
set in nature. lnvestigating every avenue
of Iandscape, there interests. ln the years 2000_04, though not without precedent
has always been in Stepanek &
Maslin,s paintings a sense of a in their earlier works, they developed
a series of skyviews.s
dialecticar rerationship between
macrocosm and microcosm,
These were viewpoints constructed
if one were lying supine
of panorama contrasted to much
smaller detailed motrfs. They
looking up towards the sky and clouds,
often through severely
have a complex sense of part
and whole, a fragment (a part_
foreshortened trees (sometimes distorted)
,.',,hole) presented or natural flora.
as an autonomy, or a generic view presented This of course has a strong Romantic
set of
precedents in
as a universal landscape metaphor.
The landscapes themselves
the 'cloudscapes. or studies by
John Constable (,l776-1g37).,
are not identifiable as such, nor
are they intended to be. ln
However, the artificiality of the
viewpoint shows ¡t is not an
'act one might argue that they are far removed ,nature
from attempt to depict the rear, but to
heighten it and to extract an
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a bstra ct perspective_percept¡on from
surface formats, at times using
the world. At times these skyviews circular or
oculus supports that stress the
are almost dizzying and vortex_like, telescopic
nature of their skyvievys.r At others
creating an optical suction effect times
as
they use the square. The vertical
if you are being drawn upwards.ro format
has been used for their recent
This is particularly evident in works
works
where crossing motifs appear,
like Untitled 26 and L)ntitted 28 and long
horizontal surfaces are frequently
(2004), !y¡1¡¡¡ this series, used
and its
for their panoramic views or to
further development, we also find suggest
the transent passage of the mot¡f.
singular motifs, a leaf or a butterfly, ln
ears of wheat or barley,
this sense they are definitively
flowers or the tendrils of convolvulus, optical pa¡nters, paying less
set against the vivid attention to what might be considered
colour of the sky and clouds, either the conceptual history
with or without aircraft of the painted image, in favour
vapour trails. An extraordinary
of a visual and perceptual
example is lJntitted ll (20061, a sense of the ocular Traditional
landscape/skyview seen across
in their use of oil on linen,
the horizontal bough of a silver
Stepanek & Maslin,s sense of
colour is at t¡mes deliberately
beech, with leaf tendrils crossed
and descending from above.
abstracted. That is to say, the
corours are not so much an exact
The cross form appears several
times in their recent works,
replication of a colour seen,
as an exaggerated intensification
suggesting at times something like
a pseudo-religious view of
of visual experience. Hence we
are left in no doubt that we are
nature. Whatwe find in allthese
Stepanek & Maslín works is a
looking at a painting, rather than
a transposed photographic
synchronicity of what were formerly
separate Iandscape sub- representation of the natural world.
genres The pastorar, the picturesque
and the subrime have
With the brothers Doug and Mike
ceen fused together in simultaneity Starn, their
to form a new language att¡tude towards nature has been
cf distinct from the beginning
contemporary Iandscape expression.
E Hence they are as since it stems from a conceptual
and investigative scientific
ruch landscapes of the mind, an imagined
reality, as they are approach, rather than a purely perception
oepictions ofthe natural world. ln driven víew of
return¡ng to terra firma in the
nature.l2 However, they share
with stepanek & Masrin a strong
,'.,orks of 2006 include open
woodlands where the trees appear
feeling for the phenomenological
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natural light s0urces, namely the sun. A ten-thousand-square- were also exhibited. The main aspects of Structure of Thought
feet exhibition space was lit by a single brilliant arc lamp which had appeared in the'Behind the Eye'exhibition (2004) and
mimicked the sun, but was based on the Humphrey Davy (1778- again in Absorption + Transmission (2005).r'g These exhibitions
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1829) arc lamp discovery and the invention of electric'artif¡cial were the culmination of a long process of investigating trees,
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]. light'(electrolysis), in 1804. Hence the spaces were flooded photosynthesis and their light absorption. The material use of
with ambient light, in which was displayed a large transparent transparency and Iayering has been a consistent practice of
video proiection on a glass screen showing that light was Doug & Mike Starn from their earliest of works. As has the
not only capable of luminescence but of generating darkness sense of giving their works a feeling for a fustian/coarse pre-
(the implied light/dark that formed the grav¡ty of the title) aging quaIitythatsuggeststhe entropic and ephemeral lndeed,
Similarly, in this near-industrial cathedral of light works from their designed artist's books and catalogues often materialise
Attracted to Light,from the series Black Pulse (2000-2007), and in adapted form as the actual contents oftheir exhibitions An
present daY.
how the
- of architecture, and technology, while again revealing
huge scale - as in the'Gravity of Light'installation' 2004
vice-versa'
unfamiliar can become familiar and intimate' and
some 22' x 22' . lfthus becomes difficult to comprehend f ully
which they
actually The Sfar City proiecf is based on two locations
many of the works of Doug and Mike Starn without
Moscow'
And this is visited in 1999, a cosmonaut training centre near
being physically in a position to experience them
both layer and and the Cosmodrome at Baikonur, Kazakhstan - home of the
equally true of their various video works which
installation
form of original Soviet Space Programme'22 Like the video
interfold all their connecting ideas, in a unpredictable
reveals
investigation Parliament that preceded tt, Star City systematically
time-based looped sequencing Their most recent
in a series the two sites'hidden narratives ln what is a four-channel
has been into the hexagonal structures of snowflakes
@ video installation with sound, we journey through
the locker
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F of works called alleverythingthatisyou (2007)'?] These large
! familiar as
nature of rooms of the cosmonauts, which seem as strangely
photographs question the ephemeral and transformative
the general
melting those you might find at a football stadium Altough
natural phenomena, since the snow crystals are seemingly
and of a life
Mike Starn are currently assumption of space flight is of complextechnology'
as they are being photographed Doug &
give
we can hardly imagine, the photographs of video images
a public commission and project for the New
É York
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completing
a strange sense of familiarity and human identity
t. Cosmonaut
Metropolita n Tra nsport Authority at the South Ferry Terminal' to be
or posed in
II in their work training suits lie casually stretched out on a shelf'
completed in 2008. However, the questions they raise
i¡ are control
relatable their storage bays like awkward automatons There
are of pressing concern, questions that are immediately
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Stasi C¡ty,the photographic series of works sale trgrhtpoints to
an opt¡cal kinetic drum, and something called a Rising l.S.S., the sterilised and post-modern world of nano/bio_technology.
Hydrolaboratorium, an underwater chamber for testing the
For if the laws of physics underpinned the space programme,
different extremes of weightlessness. Sfar Cify served as the what has replaced it ¡s the cold detachment of information
technology, where direct human involvement is increasingly
"The play of children acts tike a irrelevant. lndeed, humans rarely appear in the Wilson Sisters,
suggest¡on to the viewer. The scene shifts recent works. Photographed at the Atmel microchip plant,
simultaneously on each screening during the l¡ght-controlled environments, division and partitions,
all the footage of A Free and Anonymous metaphorically repeat the microchip structure they research
Monument except for that of the children and produce. The bifocal viewpoint also reminds us not only
playing. This sequence cuts randomly in of the sisters' own doubling of nature, but the increasing
ordsr to break up the rhythm, as weil as way powers outside of ourselves organise our lives. The
situating the pavilion each time',. supposed independence of looking and enquiry is increasingly
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(1908-i998) was a famous British
art¡st, teacher and abstract include references to contemporary oil_rig construction,
not
modernist, who became an urban designer and general
only to relate again the area to the sea, but
also to evoke the
manager of the Peterlee Development Corporation.26
What sense of the North Sea,s oil industry that has also played
its
characterises the pavilion is the thoroughgoing
commitment part indirectly ln the urban and social regeneration.
The whole
to a Le Corbusier-like modernism (a form of architecture area was once home to heavy industry which contributed
to
for a long period much unloved by the British people),
with the lndustrial Hevolution and created the base of production
its sense of utopianism. This modernism was the language
capitalism. Its decimation in the late 1970s, and
the Thatcher
frequently used for urban planning in the .ig50s and
60s. To decade of the 1980s, which generated mass unemployment
in
many people today the pavilion seems merely part
of the lost the Northeast, has now been replaced by newtechnologies
and
utopia that formerly beguiled modernism. Its public platform
service industries, in fact the very services industries
that the
or bridge viewpoint structure was an attempt by pasmore
at BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art can be
said to emblematise.
creat¡ng a visual synthesis of the different art forms,
linking lnst¡tut¡ons of cultural intervention were frequently
integrated
the new urban architecture w¡th the garden setting in
which into the regeneration strategies of post_industrial
cities of the
it currently sits. The architectural set_up of Jane and Louise North of England througout the j9g0s and l9g0s.
That this is a
Wilson's 700-square-metre installation, shows the pavilion
as modern archaeological assessment (showing a continu¡ng
an abandoned modern space, presenting its characteristics
interest in the ascent and decline of sites of power),
is made
at different height levels, angle relations, and screen_size
G- clear by the presence of isolated psychology of
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the modern
0 that spaces they film. ln these spaces we rarely find
the immediate
not only relates to the pasmore pavilion, but to other
forms of presence of human life. ln that sense they
offer a feeling of lost
modern urban archaeology made partof the film.
Cast alongside memories and nostalgic ruin, a denial ofthe forever
homogenous
are references to older urban spaces and the regenerated
industrial culture that has passed away.
industrial spaces of the new clean technologies.,T
The Atmel With Abetz/Drescher, the wo¡ks have become
computer-chip factory (already mentioned) is
among them. ever more deliberately appropriative of historical
sources
Newcastle-on-Tyne and the industrial cities that
surround it and motils. Thus in a painting like /es (2005),
we find the world
were 0nce great coal and shipbuilding cities. The
Wilsons thus of the 1960s juxtaposed with Renaissance sources
like piero
The Death of Procris).0ne might think, perhaps, that the aim Townsend remains, but is now reduced to smashing his guitar
was to create a iarring effect with a foreground hamburger as depicted on a bongo drum. But like all the earlier paintings,
and smashed guitar, together with a mid-ground satyr the main concerns are derived from the culture of popular
reflecting on an allegory of love. The central female figure music, and the image fundamentally amounts to a surreal/
listening to her walkman is no doubt hearing a love song, a psychedetic dream that takes place in the head of the short
popular equivalent of the sentimental allegory. The fusing of haired Jane Birkin-like listener.
ctassical myths with recent contemporary popular culture, lf the work Yes represents a cont¡nuation of the
and the synchronicity in which we experience such images in works that date from 2000-04, its picnic or pastoral Gontents
an age of mass reproduction, also draw heavily upon the role reflect a change that took place after it was completed. Many
of memory and nostalgia. lt presupposes that both sources are of their earlier works were in suggested domestic settings'
co-equivalent and merely relative to each other. However, the ln works like Brave New World (2007), the paintings have
compositional structure of Yes, presents avenues that lead taken on a lighter sense of the pastoral'28 There are still the
in two different directions: on the right to the faEade of the appropriate references, to Willlam Blake's Ner¿fon, to Van
Altes Museum, and on the left to seemingly personal sensual Gogh's crows (doubling, perhaps, for Hitchcock's The Birdsl,
desires. The metaphors of death and human destruction, further references to the Narcissus myth, to Adam and Eve, a
spiked skulls, a woman embracing a skeleton, the machine Medieval-Renaissance walled city in the rear ground, and the
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F gun, are either placed on the right or point in that direction.
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This seems to suggest that history is a desolate place of crushed Coke can in the foreground. However, this half-naked
entrapment - emphasised by the bedraggled web in the rear Miranda is more knowing than the innocent of Prospero's
ground. History has become a tawdry place of self-deception. magic island. The typewriter, temporality, time passing, are
There are the familiar references to Art Nouveau, Symbolism again represented as in the earlier works by candles. The
and Surrealism. Magritte's foot-shoe form'Le Modéle Rouge' same contents fill How to Start Your ?wn Country '2006ll,
(1937) has been replaced by a female high-heeled variation in though we might imagine that the central half-clad male in
the immediate foreground. The males in the painting are satyrs his leopard-skin trousers represents 0liver Drescher himself.
A minimal-pop installation of front- 1960s suit plays his guitar. This figure is
loading washing machines appears in derived in part from the same figure that
the rear ground right, not unlike earlier
appears repeatedly in a Max Ernst collage
accumulations presented by the artist
book called Une Semaine de Bonté (A
Thomas Bentmeister. However, money
Week of Goodness, lg34). For Ernst,
(dollars) has crept in and been placed
birds and shoes were a near obsessive
on a guitar, in the foreground left sublect in his Paris period of the 1920s
hinting, perhaps, at the corrupt state
and 30s. He not only proves a historical
of what were the former icons of rock
source of ¡nterest to Abetz /Drescher,
music. ln both these paintings the but is. perhaps, the most s¡gnif¡cant
eyes of the main figures are closed, artist who links so much of their content
suggest¡ng they have withdrawn .,:
to the history of Surrealism. To Abetz/
into their own world. But the most Drescher, history sources are not about
common integration of this current the hermeneutics of painting, as might be
series of paintings is the repetition the case with Muntean/Bosenblum, but an
of birds, black birds like carrion endless source of visual materials (half-
crows. ln a paper wotk lJnt¡tted remembered, nostalgic or otherwise) that
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of a double act as it might be from their artistic lives have
that Allora & Calzadilla have undertaken'
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years by the Land Mark proiect
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of participation, has the inverse
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on the island of Vieques' off
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military as a bomb and missile
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non-violent protest.
to (2006) - a large sculpture and sound perlormance piece' shown
used an upturned table and attached an outboard engine
in Miami. London and Zurich.s As cursory as my evaluation
it and negotiated it on a sort of ecological sea iourney around
po¡nted must be, it is worth stresslng that some form of social
the restricted parts of the island. The work not only
present in
intervention and communal adaptation are always
back to the earlier conflict between the island's fishermen
time' their work. Whether it is roast¡ng a pig, with a spit attached
and the United States Navy in the 1970s but, at the same
to the rear axle of a car, as in Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands
emphasised the table as a famitiar locus of discussion and
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(2006), the¡r work always offers an alternative position and manifestation? lt is certainly true of Allora &Calzadilla that
narratives that are distrnct from our current
addictions to the they move c¡ose to the ,end_of_art, debate, but
the aesthetical/
determinism of globalisation. They similarly parody
the fake ethical boundary has always been opaque in
terms of the
¡ibera¡ att¡tudes and tolerance that authorities
claim to have practice of socially-comm¡tted art. The question
remains:
for art. ln their intervention in 2002 on Lima,s plaza de Armas what does their work actually portend? Why does
it feel so
- the administrative centre of peru,s capital _ the artists set up 'of the moment'? Surely it is the
fact that their double_act
twenty huge, chalk cylinders. While initially passable
as proto_ collaborative approach mirrors the sociar rearities
with which
minimalist objects, one had been drawn along
the ground to they are involved.
Ieave a long chalk line. Within an hour the
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on the ground, natural social phenomenon. lt displaces _
or at least mjtigates
love notes, names, patterns, etc. public employees
on strike - the sovereignty of the singular self, leaving one
open to
turned up and, shortly afterwards, the square
became a interact and achieve shared results. lt also, of
course, requires
giant chalk board of public grievances
and ideas. lt was lust a sense of shared responsibility for what
is produced. Allora &
a short time before the riot police dispersed
the crowd and Calzadilla have frequently involved themselves
and identified
the municipal cleaners were summonecl. So much
for public with the social attitudes and injustices that they
expose in their
space and public expression, one might think. yet
where are art work. Their status as a couple thus extends
from a double act
the boundaries between art and life, between art
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(lire and,uorkin Béitialliip,,::iii' Marr(Eflela de At6 Plá§tims, San Juan, P8, AreÍo Fou¡-Legs Good, Parcd¡se Bow London, Whq Hmarc
§¡láikdlAb€it : Born 1970, Düsseldorl.'1991-94, Kunstakademie Blar trgát Amries Sociely, New York 2002, Arron & Walbd the Earth,laf:e &itain, Londoc 2006/200'1, Jalc
"rrr:r0ús§áldorf , Prof駧iiitlllilhiirrse Hüppi. 1995-97. Hoúsúule Cahadiila. lag.tune ú Vtsual &ts {|NoVA) at the lJnivercity & Dinu Chapnan hd Att iü htl fuople,T?,le L¡verpool,
:ttt dqr Küi¡re, Bedil:fililessor Katharina sieverding olWisorein, Milmukee 2001, Ailüa & Caladilla. Mwo liverpool; 2005, fu1ke a dog returc to its vonit, Vlhlle
oli¡ei:gre§!her; thiii I969; Essen. 1 990-s2, Assirant de tule de Rtorto B¡@, Santur@, PR; 2000, Othü Wotltk. Cube, london; 2004, The New lmpoved And¡ex Woda,
Stage Director,,:!!§álei.i{ilder Ruhr, Mühlheim. I 990-94. Pto¡eu B@rc, ABC0, Madrid; 1997, Chamal Dane flmr. 20.21 Galeri8 Edition Kunsthandel, Esen, ,reurt fo rrluly,
,:,i,i,,(i¡iifákádem¡é:Diiseldoú;l ft of esor Allonso Húppi. Lu¡g¡ Mamz¡ni Gallery san Juan, PB Kunstsammlungen der V6tecoburg. The Mafriage oÍ
:lliit:il!9$,{1; Hodrsdiüle'iléi Künle, Berlin, Prolesor Reasm and Sqmlor, cAc Málage; DunlGG Kulturhaus,
HelsiBgborg; 2003, Jal@ & DinÉ Clnpmn, The Saúúi
..... liáharina Sievad&ii:i::ll:l:i::l
,li BtUE NOSES Gallery London, Ihe Bape oÍ CEativity, Mumum of
([iw w]k in MomW Novisbitsk and Ekaterinburg] Modem ñt, Wotk tuw the Chapnan Fanily
0)d0rd; 2002,
1k§qalr§§$§ lx§{¡ttlli}¡1¡§i:2007, Golf + Bosenthal. Berl¡nj and
lil:.. .2096. rBED, loiiilon; 2005, Gofl+ Rosenthal, New York Viacheslav Mizin: 8om NovGibiBk 1962. 1980-86 lrxstitule of & DinÉ: Enioy Mrc,
Collectioo"r¡,lhite Cthe, l.¡adoa, Jale
"""'iÑil;'Pa¡nt ¡t aá*.ii!i'l¿ñé volker Diehl, Berlin; 2000, ArdriteduE, NovGbi6k Groningen Muwum, Gfon¡ngan, and Museum Kunst hlast,
...,,,El,r'ilb:Ladylaad,,fu .sIutua, zuriú; 1999, statenents, Alexander Shabunov: Bom in Svedlowk (now Ekaterinburg), Düsldol, Jacffe& Oeflbe chapwmn" Modem At¡.,
llllli:,.Art.§ásel, Bolrfi &Nl ÍW.llAK. Marc tox Los Angeles; 1965. ,980{6, Sdlool of tine Arls SverdloEk Lo¡doai 2000, Jake & Din6: ccsE Añ Enn GiMa Ata
li§irg' Up Ad§.WÍf.a$,l§lmemporary Fine Art, Bertin; Spae, Tolqo, JaIc & Irriros Cáapnac Kunl-Werlc, Berlin;
.,irli, litSl;a§árzr,he Pauilloll,dcr,,yollsbühne,'Jugend Musik Awards and Prizes: 2006, 1" NCCA lnnovation Eize'V¡sual 1999, Jalc & Din6 Ctapmn, Fg. 1, London, I,isasfe6
:r11,,,.,,8.¡Oiele, Berlin Art', and Soratnik Amrd. 1 998 {Alemnder Shabunovl Som o, War; While Cube Loño¡, Jale & Din6 ChaWaL Gió
toundal¡on Gmnt (for denlurc treatreil ffi art¡§¡caction). Mamni, Milan; 1998, Jale & Dirc Charyan Galetie
.:i:i:: :1u:rr:t:iat, :a, Daniel Templon, hr¡s; 1991, Six Feet Undü, llloly aibell
il!.0n4 &'eAtzArDlLLA TWo-PEBS0f\¡ EXHIBIT¡0NS (selectedl: 2006, Blue Nueq Gag0s¡an Ga¡|ery, New Yoñq, 1996, kyontl Niryana - loo
(üiié'áñ¡l'ürcrk in Sáiii&e0;:&i!ito R¡@) State TrEtyakov Gallery/Marat Guelmn, Mcor¿ ffrdle¡ Mudt is Never EMUgh P-How,fowo, Zem kinciple, Giít
ú¡a,1974. 2001-03 Suprumafrisr¡, 6'h Mmw Photo B¡Gntrial, House 0t Ma@ni, Milan, Chapmnwrld,hÉittl.e of Coilmpomry
sfute oi'Íedrnology (MS), Cambridge, Joufnalils, MMw cffual CorureMs, M.Guelmaa Art, london, and Grazer Kun§tvercin, GE¿ and Kunst-
ry liilependent Study ftogram, New Gallery, Mm4 8r@ rv6es, Kunlverc¡n Bcenhe¡m, Werke, Berlin; 1995, Jarre & oirc Chapann Gav¡nWrM\
rmond (M), 8¡úmond, VA. Mun¡dL Brre iv6et Galeria kito Cimino Sao Paulo; 2005, Emerpris, New York Zygolic awleratio,t, biogenetic
Calzad¡lla,Gu¡llermo: Born 1971, Havana, Cuba, 1999-2001 &¿e ilroses, Ethan cohen Fine Art, New Yo¡k Blue Noffc .h-ilblinated nodel lenla¡ged x l un ), vtáotia Mi.o
,:::""'i.áil iiii.!lege (U[AI,lgg&,Skor /hesan súool of Pa¡mins Gslerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Brüe /V6e§, Knsllcaleriewietr, Gallery, London, &r1?g Me the HHd of hanú f6errr; B¡ding
:ll::liiiii¡d:§i¡lpture. 1 990,8Q¡¡iilá de Artes Plásti@§ (BFA), Vienna, &ue iVmes Galede lN SITU, Paris. &ue iVose& House Editions, London, JalG & Dit6 Chapmn, Anúéha-
san Juan, PR l,i,rt',:itt:::rlrir::rri B & D Slud¡o Contersoranea, Milan, fhe Vogue ol Labo¡, SdriFienko Gallery, Stodholmi 1994, Grcat Deeds Agai,ñ
M. Guelman Gallery MG@w &re rvos§, Kunsthallen the Dead, Vtúolja MÍo Gallery, l¡adoL Munnry & Daddy,
Asr id 3& C i¡ rl!: ¿086rf{áiiillr¡ne Paik Amrd t¡nalist, Hugo Brandts, Klaedefabrik odeasei 2004, Hit-ü-M¡s A,t (How Galleria Frano Tcell¡, M¡lan; 1993, Íhe DisasteÉ oi War,
Bos Prize Hnái*;,20{ll1:§itángiu Biennial Prize. 2003 to &rild Up wo¡k oÍ Ail Ju§ in tle Kitdtil), M. Guelman V¡ctor¡a M¡ro Gallery, Lodon; 1992, we Are Añists, Hal6
Penny Mccall toúriiiáió;.crarf. 2002 Joan Mitdrell Gallery, Mosow The Blre Noses,TheDisplay Gallery, Gallery, London, and Bue Coat Gallery, L¡verpool.
Foundation Graii:ri2@@ltl c¡das tellomhip. ftague;2003, Do I L@kUle I LÉeI?,SlaleÍteaya}otr
:::i::::::: i:iliii Gallery, Mmow Tw Agait§ the Rffiian Mali4 M.
TWB-¡:t!15tlt EX§1.&lIl§1..l.§.{selededl 2007 Ailon & Guelman Gallery, MGowaod Kiw, and State Rsiatr CLEGG & GUTTMANN
Cal a d i t I a, Cer(áí'i'óil¡úriiinporary Art, Kitalqushu, Meum tum Siheia Wtth Love Asenal,
St Petetsburg, lLive and wd< in ilew York Bed¡n and V¡ennal
l, Allo¡a & Calzaiiiiá|i*itá&apel Gallery London, Allorc Niány¡ Novgor0d, ,ósoÍrf Brue ry66, 200109¡61 M@um, Michael Clegg: Bom, Dúl¡n, 1957. L¡ves in Bedin.
& Calzadilla - lYakeilp, Rliaisane Soc¡ety, Chi@go, MGmw 2002, Tw AgaiBt the BNian Mafia Ktou Mart¡n Guttmann: Bom, Jeffilem, 1957. l¡ves in V¡enm.
Ailora & Cahai.§lb,.§&{¡sq(ine Gallery Londoa, Allora & Mmeunr, St Paesbury, me Contenpffi,y Siher Añists, M. Ihey began the¡r @llabont¡on in 1980-
C atzad i I la, Kw:í(hállé Zu¡ídt, Zutidl At to¡a & Cal za di I I a, Guelman Gallery, MGúw2001, an"ol-fow EruEioÉ
San trancis@ &hl'liÍit¡tute, San Francis@, Allora & 2, L-Gallery, MlMw 1999, fhe NewHoly tuol§. üthe 1W0-PERS0il EXfilBlTl0NS lsleded): 2007, Revollnion of
Calzadrl4 Lisaii:§l!,9!Silondon; 2006, Clamor, fhe Moorc Hholow oÍ fuúmile, Zvercv Csúer of Corfempomry the Foetic lánguage (E§ablishreñ of Corelation) - A
Spae, Miami, Conentlations 50: Allora & Calzad¡lla, Art, MGmw Cognitive Erercise for a Group of Fouf, Peflmne by
Dallas Museum of Art;:Dallas, Combine Platte¿ Sqeening Clegg & Guttmann, Georg Kárgl t¡ne Als, Vienna; 2006
event, tA M0CA.!§Atgeles, ¿atrdMar& Palais de Tolqo, Social Sdlptum, Commnity hÍrails and Spontaoeo§
Palls, (En)hop6, Galerié §lnntal Crousel, Pais, Atton & JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN op€ms 1990 - 2006, Comerhouse, MandEster, Madr
calza¿¿la s,ru:Áfi&áiliifik Museum voor Aduele Kunst, ([ive and wrk in Londonl 6. Bohmnn ll, Kunlvefe¡n Braunsdw¡g e.V - Haus
Ghent, S@af lerie Chantal Crousel, CoDáme Dinos Chapman: Bom London, 1962. 1981, Bavmsboume SalveHGp6, &aursdlwig, Maú w. Boltmann,
,aüeri Streen¡ MOCA, {June 24, 2005); 2005, College of ñt. 1980-90, Boyal College of Art London. Seesion, Vienna; 2005 Social S@lptum, Cmmnity
DoMload, Atl AúBasel Miami Bead; 2004, Jake Chapman: Bom, chcltenhariL 1966.1905-88, Norih Forlraits and Spoúarcous operas 1990-2005, Georg
Unsfable Att m Gallery, London, Cidonism. l¡ndon Folytedrnic 1988-90, Royal College of &t. Kargl Fine tuls, Vienna; 2004 A Monumerf for Histori€l
Galerie Chamal:0iousel, Par¡s, Cralk 7ri Annual lc¡y'Vita Change, pemanemry ilstalled social solplufe, Rm
&evis Proiea, !*{il¡tg,g{¡§ontemporary Art (lcA), Bolon, Award and Prizes: 2003, Nominated lorlhe Tumer Rize, L[Hburg Hatz e.v, Berlin, Sha'at'nez oder die
Bad¡o Bevolt: Aiie PeÉ04 one Waf¿ Artil in Bes¡den@ [ondon veEdtobene tl¡bl¡othek Sigmund-Freud-Muscuril Vienna;
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2003, De@mpcitiory'Remstitut¡on Bedin _ lgl8: tuti Coosmded Catas¡oph§, CGA lftakyrrhu, Eee, Keep Gellsóaft, Uibeck I ggg, litherever w are is Mrceun
Capital¡m, Avant-Gade, Art, Atonal M6iq Galer¡e SrTerf /, Galfer¡ Ni@la¡ Wallnet CopenhageD 2OOZ How aE Neuer Bedioer Kuns{veEin, Berl¡o; 199g, Genereus
Christian Nagel, Berl¡n; 2002 NegatioN o, Str¡ct Ordec
Wu today?, Galletia Masim de Carlo, Milan forcrfes Mimdm Gallery (One-nighr Exibit¡on), Newyork CU1E,
fuardt¡sm, Cubiil and Synmpated MGiq Amer¡can F¡ne SrrurluB, F¡9. 229, Gailerie Helga Atdevar, Madrid, Sprengel Mmum, Hanover.
Arts, NewYork 2001 Minisler md Senatoren _ fulitisúe lltGet , Sala Monteda/Fondacid l.a Ca¡E, Barelona,
Physiognomísde Fragmnte, Galerie Christ¡atr Nagel,
S6pended Spae,fats lshi¡ ca[ery, Totqo;2001, faki?g
sulpturetalw Fempective calleria
Cologne, Knoradedge
ftae, a¡rid , Zu]iú, Opening SoM, Gallery
Kutrsiha[e TEBESA HUBBARD/
LiaRulm, Milan and the Valencia B¡enniat 2000 The I{w
Historiel SoEr Stadiutrt, proposl for a pemanent
Tanya Bonaldar, Yotk, A nom De¡ined by ¡ts ATEXANDER B¡BCIiLEB
/4@siár7,,itf Stalen$ MGeum for Kunf, Copenhagen,
{Uve and mr* in Aust¡n, TeEs)
publicsolpture omisioned bythe Deúsúe Bank Galle¡i Niolai Wallner, Copenhageo. -Uoienstr. 160,,, Te¡esa Hubbard: Bom Dublio lEland, l96E. 1985-88, BEA.,
Fanldurt/Main; lg99 D¡e sioben Bri¡d€tr von Kainigsberg, KlGtefelde, Belin, &wilñ Strud¡uB, Íig. nt, Univenity of Teng Austin. 1988, yale Sd|ool of A,t, MFA
a tempomry publ¡cproiect iñallation in Duisburo; 1997 hrtihts, FnnHuilM; 2OOO,Zwisúen aileren Ereigoi$en Sfllpture Progmm. 1987, Slovr¡ñegan Sdrool of pairfing
1897-Ihe f¡st Z¡onit CongB in Basel, Kutrsthalle Basl, Galer¡e für Zeitgends¡sdte Kuñ, teipzigr Boslytr O)deyg and Solpturq Skor^¡hegan. 1990-92, M.EA., frlova Sút¡a
The Speaker,s Platlom ol cri$ldrúen, Gri6kirden;
Gallery, Sydoef, tggg,Galleri
Niolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Gollege ofArt and Design, Halilax sine 2000, profest
1996 lhe Sid( llt, calerie Christian Nagel, Cotogne.
Sout "Powrles Structur6. t¡g. 57{0,,, Ihe pro¡ect, New
Depatrent of ftt & Art Hist ory, lrn¡veEity of Tem, at
Ihe Sid< Soul ll, Ame¡ien F¡ne Arts, New yo& .Ihe Sid< Volic 1998, Dug Dow Gallery/ tuwrt* Strudw, Fig. Austin. 20M - pr6enl, Coe Faohy, Milton Arery Graduate
Soul-Morb¡d Fasi-nation and Behay¡oml Resardt ¡n 45, Galleri 18& Beyl¡aükAn Mmum, Reykiav¡k lgg7, Sdool of the Arts, Bard College.
M¡m Sm¡ology, Beality W and Avam-Garde Arl, Grazel fuwilñ Strudurea Gallery Campbells Oms¡onally. Alexander B¡rchler: Bom Baden, Switzerland, 1962. 1985,
Kunstverein, GE4 1995 &eaking DoM the Boundaries Copetrhagen
Un¡ve6ity of AIt and D6ign, Helsinki. 1983{7, Súule tür
betwn tut and Life, The New Sdrool for Smial fiwardr,
G6{ahüng, Basel. 1990-92, M.tA., Nova Scotia College
Irlewyoft i993 Ihe Fim¡ny Mffiic L¡bmry a temporary
of Art and D6ign, Hal¡fax lg93-94, lmtuEi UniveEity of
public proied, Unité, Fim¡rif t99f lhe Opetr tublic libmry, EVA & ADEI.E
Gmz, Gmzer KunstveE¡n, Gra¿ NordaNtad-Skatstedt
Zür¡dt. 2004- p@nt. Core Faolty, Mihon Avery Gmduate
([¡ve and wr* in Berlitr] SdDol of the Arts, Bard College.
calleri, Stoddolr[ l98O Galér¡e Hñnot, p¡ri$; i987 Jay Ihe biogEphy of Eva & Adele @rNiitrfs itself as ,Coming oú
Gomey Modem Art, Newyork Galerie Aóim Kubinsti, of the f ulrrc'; Eva, heiglf I 76m, Busi I 01 m, Waisr, 0l a¡r H¡p6 Awards and Prizes {slected): 2006, Landis + Gyr Stiftutrg
S-tuttgart; 1984 Galerie Tan¡a Grunen, Cologrc; 1983 96m. Adele, height 161m, &§t 86m, Waist, 6Bm, Hips 96m. toundat¡o[ Zug {rB¡dsory gnil ¡n Londotr} 2003,
A¡leg0ri6 of Stod( Édrange, 0lsen Gallery, New york Eva is Ardrian atrd lmircd as a pa¡iloi Adele ¡s Gemn, and
Kunskedñ Basel-Stadt Comm¡sion AMrd, Basel;
1982 M¡úelle lad|omky, tutrerpen; i98t cmup Fo]traits
lfained as a ufptor. 1999 l{ational Rize of Fne Arts, Swis Federal Offi@ of
ol Ereartiv§, Am¡na Nose¡ Gallery, Newyolk
Culturc; 1998, Swis FedeEl off¡e of Cuhure, R6¡dency
TWo-PERSoN EXHIBtTt0NS (sete.redl:2008, Tell it Lite Fellomhip, l(ütrstlertaus Bethan¡etr, Belirl (undkedit
a fulanid Pldure, Mwum der Modeme Sa¡zburg, Basl-Starlt, Basel (stipendl t992, Nat¡onal prize of tine
ETMGBEEN & DRAGSET Rupeniom, Salzbufg; 2001, Eva &Adele Daueryeit, &ts, Snis tederal Ofl¡e of Culture, B6idenq Fellorchip,
{Uve and wrk itr Berl¡n) White Tffih Corf empowy, HaÍúutg, Aryels, Dev¡ls & E6idency Fellorchip Akadem¡e SdllN Solitude, Stuttgart
M¡chael Elmgreen: Bom, Cop€nhagen, t96L Sex MmsfeÉ, Clairc Olivei, Nffi york Eya & Adete, fuik
1996, Maoor AIt pr¡ze, Museum of Comemporary art, Basel
lngar Dragset; Bom, Trondhe¡m Nomy, 1969. van Uffhoú, Galer¡e Ron Mandoq A¡rrtedam; 2006, AleEnder Clavel F0undation ftize Biehen, yukon Afs
They met in 1 995 and their @llaboration began s@n thereafter iVEOrV, Galerie Kai Fo6blom, Hetsinki,
Golderc ManiÍe§, Ceritre Besidency Gmm, Whitehore, Baslet Kurslverein
Mard, Stuttgart, tas, calerie Jér6me
Galerie &igitte Tnwl Prize, Kursthalle Basel; lgg4, Kurstkedit Basé|.
TWo-PERS0N EXfi tBtTtoNs lseteded'l: 2007, Dma de Noimil, hris;2005, Deathoi fuúmle,Clairc S'tadt, Art¡st St¡peDd; I990-92, Feltomhip Nova Smtia
&rer§, Mürster Sqlp(urc proiect, fhis ls Íhe Firf/. Day olivea New York Hu* of Filturing, Sprengel Meum, College ol Arf and D6igc 1909, fe¡tomhip, BaIIft Centrc
U My Lire, Malmii K!¡stha[, Malm; 2006, DrbgÉe, Han0ver 2004,
ACI Galerie &igitte Madr, $ungart, for the Ats, Badf.
Galeríe Emmanuel hrotio Miam¡, Would yu üle your Get on W Witgs,l§-Ahfrtoi§, Musée, Ceilre d,art
Eggs A Little Dillerent 7fuis Momírgl Galleda Mmimo modeme et @mmpomine, Toulous, BU TBU, Galerie TWo-PERS0N EXHtBtTt0NS (setededl: 200i, Tem
De Carlo, M¡lan,nD lrci leñal SelÍ,fal@ lshii callery, Asbaek Copenhagen, GeEúlNre Geltsúaft, Galqie Hubbar¡l/Alenndq Efirúls, The Modem MuseutrL tot
Iolqo, The WelÍare Show Serpemine Gallery, London, Midtael Súuftz, Belitr, The coya Installation, V¡lla Aureñ. Worth, Teffi; 2006, fe6a Huttbad/Alemde¡ B¡tdtlet,
and The Forer Plant, To rcr¡toi ZOO', prada Marla, ñt LG Angel6; 2003, Sál, Galerie Jér6me de No¡mod, Galerie Baóam Thum, BfJilia, Hou* with fuol, Miani
Production tuoü Balhoom Mala, Mala, TeEs, Trre h,tis, h¡,rting thrw, Centro Culturel Andra0( Mallom,
Briglttaw ol Shady liveg Galeria Helga de A¡vear, Madrid,
tur M@um; 2005, Íw Hubha¡üAlenúer Bidúet
S@lpture intle Pa¡{aviila XptBA"
Zreibrüdcn, Efurirg Museum Samlung Goe!¿ Mi¡iúL Little frdu6 at MB.
End Stat¡ú, B,,hq Íotndarion, I{ew york The Wellare
Cmpany, Galetie Kai toGblm, Hels¡nli, WatemBiq ore$ llo6e, Cerrtm Galego de Alt e Comemp0Éne4
Sáo!a{ Bergeo Kursthall, Bergen, and Baffig Foundation, V¡d6 Sdlpturc - Steir¡sdrer Hertts, Gmz. ¿060, calerie Sail¡ago de Cmpostel4 fruop, Bob von Omuu¿ Zür¡dr,
V¡enna; Wrong callery, NewYotl\ Linien§/fn* 160, Neue & Edition tutelier, Gra¿ Day W Day hinting,TheNod]ic Etliaiog the Da,tc Rñper Meum 0f Contemporary Añ,
lfii¡te Galerie Kfosielelde, 8f,)tlia:2004 tnteyentiol g7, Watemlour Mreeum, Sláham; 2002, Dorále seff- Kams City, Single Wide, l<aise¡ t¡,lithelm MBeutrL
Sprcngel MEeum, Haaovet J$t a S¡ryle Wmg Move, frrfá]ils Gal¡eri sefan Andesm, Umea; 2(,0f , ¿060, lfJeleld, New Spaes, Énakothek der Modem, Mün¡dt,
Modem London, ¡ltaving Ererg¡B # 04. Aspeke .tet
Tate
Neuer Sáósisdrer K{nfiwrcin" Ot6de¡; Get on W Siryle Wtule, Heztiyauuseum ol Contemporary An, hmel;
Samlug alhriút, Museum FollMng, Esea; ZOO3, Shotf Caroel
Mag's, Par¡s Photo, du LoMe, par¡g E @re, 2004, SingleWidemitrey Meum of Arnerien At|
Csf, Fondazione Trussrdi, M¡lan, Spaed Oüf, hrtih¡s, Galerie de I'E.E.EA,N., Nantes; 2000, ¿OCo, Modeme
FraaWwtJM: &,tis
at Ahria, USA" Hu* with ft/ol,fa¡ya Bonaldar Gallery,
Diaris, Galerie Emanuel hnotin.
Pais, Phone Hwe,faoya Booakdar Gallery New york
Galer¡e Saadand Museul¡l,
SaaÉrüdcn, CtÉe{p & NewYot*, lluv
with fbor, Mceum für Gegenmrts¡on$t,
Blowup, Gale.ie Jétüne de No¡moil, paris, and Oveúcd( Baset 2003, Eigáf, Cenro calego de fute Coderporánea,
of Arts, seoul, and s¡ngapore Añ Museum, singapore
Kurstverein, bdwigsburg; 1S96, BodySáop, Galerie K¡dmat
Sarfiago de Cmpostela, Tercsa Hubhad/Alennde¡ (touring e)óibition), Aere et Gilles - Le Gñnd AmouL
Eden, Tel Aviv.
Bird¡Ier Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, CouW üne Boad' Galerie Jéróme de Noimnt, Paris; 2003, fiere ef Gtl'e§
Galerie Bañam fhum, Bcrlin; 2002, ful Pae toundation Miller Gallery'
Bolanique, Brusls, trere ef 6t'rre§, Robert
for cortemporary Art, San Amonio, Kunsthalle zu Kiel' NryYoy'rc 2002, frene et G¡lle§ - AmdE non @ur'
Kiel, Kunslmuseüm St Gallen, Tarrya Bonakdar Gallery'
TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER
KunstHaus Wien, Vienna, and Galerie Jér6me de Noimont'
(Uve and wrk in London)
NewYork 2001, Mmum Ha6 lange and Esie6' Kreleld' e)óibitiotli 2001, Ptere et Giiles NN
Paris, (touring
Tim Noble: Bom Stroud, Gloueste6h¡re,1966 1985{6
Hu¡s Mamille, Foundalion for PhotograPlry, Amierdam'
Musum ol Contemporary Art, NewYo& lhe Yerba Buena
toundation College, Cheltenham Art College, 1986{9'
Gallery 8ob von O6ouw züriú;2000, A6e'¿l Bonaldar- center forThe Añs. san tranc¡s (tour¡ng e)dribit¡on);
NottinghamTreil lJnive6ity. 1989'92, Dean Clough'
Janou Gallery. NewYork 'Werk Baum' National Gallery in Plffi et Gilles, Éalel/e Jér6me de No¡mont at the FIAC'
(with Halifax 1992-94, Royal College oftut, Lordon'
Hamburger BahnhoI, Mñeum of ComempoEry Art Paris (2001); 19S9-2000, Plene et Gilles,f¡ttn Taidem@o'
Trctrt
Sue Webster. Born Le¡e6ter, 196,. 1986{9 Noitingham
soph¡e Calle and Rerry Madowitsdr), Bedin; |999' Motion Turhr; 1998-99, Pere et G,7res, Museo de Bellas Art6 de
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Eerl¡n, National Gallery
Unive6itf 1989-92, Oean Clough, Halilax 1992-94' Audited
Adua, Val¿ncia, valencia. Ee¡re et Gill6, Ménoire de voyage'
(unofficially) Royal College of Art. London
of Modem and Coilempomry fut, Prague, G@gofs Bom' Giná Art spae, Tolqo, eú¡bition
Shise¡do Gallery
Gallery Bob von OMUW Züriú; 1998, Al€dem¡e SúlN
organized lor the Year ol rfaae i¡ Japat, Piere et Gill6
TWo-PE&S0N EXHlElTl0NS (seleded): 2007, Sening
Solitude, Sfrrlrpirg, Kür§tlerfiaus Bethanien, Berlin; 1997' - Dow WolelÉ, Galerie Jér6re de No¡mont, Paris;
Suggelion, The Wrong Gallery, Tate Modem, LondotL UK ;
SrowPrae, Museum fÚr Gegenwrtslonst, Basel, Gallery 1gg1 , Die Weft von Plere ef Cirres. Fotomuseum, Muniú'
2006, PolymrphoG Perue6e The trcud Meum'
London'
Bob von 06ouw ZÚrich.
Piene & Gitt6 - Git ard Grrfter; Gallery of Modem Ar1'
ülci 2005, fhe Ctory Hore, Bortolami D8yan, New York
Glasgow 1996-97, ¿e§ Ha¡siÉ de la Fotét - Jolis Voyo6'
The Joy ol Sex Ktlile Gallery, Seoul, The New Baúañans'
Galer¡e Max Hetzler, Bedi¡, Ptene el Giiles, A'C'C'
CAC Málaga, Centm de Añe ConterPoranes, Málaga;
MUNTEAN/BOSENBLUM Galer¡e, Weimar, Piere et Gilles, Wngt ans d Anour
(1976
2004,Moden A,t k Dad, Modem Ñt, london ' Iin Noble
{L¡ve and wrt in V¡ctrna and tondon) - ,996/, Maison Eumpéenne de la Pholograph¡e, Paris;
& MÉeum of Fine Arts, Bogo¡i 2003' fin
Sue Webster,
Markus Munlean: Bom ¡n GEz, 1962 and
New 1gg5 Piere et Gitt6, Roslyn Oley Gallery, Sydney,
Nobte & Sue Webstü, PS.l Coilemporary Art Centef'
Adi Rosenblum: Born in Haifa,l962. ABtfalian Cerfer for Coilempomry Alt, Melboume' and
Yo./r',2002, Nad(Magic, frfw Pro¡8cts, London' G'al'y
They began their mllaborat¡on in 1992. Wellington City AÉ Gallery, Wellington, and Auddand
Amngem16 lÁl¡loaKeYtr6 Gallery, t'iiltotr Keyn6' flea'
City Art Gallery, Auddand, (touring e)óibition), Annual'g5'
¿ffe tb BüáDrbr¡, Statemnts at An Ea§el; 2001,
TWo-PEñS0N EXHlBlTl0l'¡s (sleded): 2008, Samluns "sfarf Sh¡sido Gallery Ginza Art Spae, Tolqo; 1994 Pem ef
Esl Eivail¡ttung, Klostemeub€rg, V¡enna; 2007' Tcam GmtiÍiatiü, GagÉian Gallery, Beverley Hills' Califomia;
I YoU' Deirút Gr:rres, Chapelle du Méian, Ben@rfrcs lÍternationales
Btitish Wittttife,ModemAlt, London,
Gallery, NewYork Arario Gallery, Seoul, Galerie für
2OOO,
de la Photogmphie, Atl 6, Piere d GillÉ, 12 Ca*
Pro¡ect§,NewYork rürasteE o¡ the Uoiveffi, Ds§Ie
Zeitgenósisúe Kuns, Leipzig, Museu CHIADo' l¡sbon; d'tute, M¡lan; 1993 Áásord &ep-s,úw Raab Gallery'
tute Foundation, Athem; 1999, fhe Newturharians' Chisenhale
20ñ, Mak Death Listen, MUSAC, Muse0 DE ds Pays de la Loire'
London, Galerie du Salon, D.B.A.G.
Gallery, London, New h,ba¡iaÉ, Spaex Gallcry'
The
Contemporánea, [éon, Ceilre d'Al Sama MdniÉ' CASM'
et Gilles, Galeúe Samia Saouma, Paris'
Narrlesi Pietre
Ereter ul( 1998, yogre U§, Habitat, K¡ngs Boad' London'
BaElona, &trdt & Partner, Zü¡iú, MAK Vieaaa, We Live Matdt: Eerc et Gilles, Galler¡a ll Poúe, Bom; 1992'
WolV Modem &t. londoai1g$l, Hme Chane' Biv¡ngton
i, Iu'rigft, Kunsthalle Budapel; 2005, Dtb@ Maureen Plerc et Gill6, Baab Caler¡e, Berl¡tr, ñem et Gill6'
ftm Slrcet, Londo[ 1996, &r'frisr¡ BÚDis¿ lndependent Art
Pafey, London, Jad( Hanley, Los Angel6, F'r Away
Rüsisúes MreufIL D¡agh¡lev Center of Modem Art'
& Partner, Berlitr, V¡ennale' Gañenbau' Spae, London
lit4ty, Gakie Arndt
Saint-he6burg, Plerc et Gilles" Raab Galerie. London;
Vteaaai 2004, kiq in and ott of love too mny tim6
lgg}-01, Piem et Gitl6, H¡6drl & Adler Modem, New
mt6 it hardüto tove, Aulml¡8n Ceñre for ContetrPorary Eere ef Girles, Pam Par ll de Shibuya' Tolqo'
Art, Melboume, fowsoo, tb row Geolg Kargl, V¡enna' PIERRE et GILLES York 1990,
saints, Galede
and osaka {touring e)óibition); 1988, ¿¿s
Cesúiúte eaáhlen: km¡l uill Hilla *dEt, efiib. el., NewYo]k 1997, PP. 147-53. The Étalogue
EiÍÍührung in das Leben ürd Weú Muniú,2005 with fs doubled slalll atrd ffibon6 and gold{eaf
gble
edged pages is a deliberate parody of lhe Holy
18
Jammn, fuslmodem iffi, ü the Cuftunl
Fredric
l0 oprephilia (eument
lngic oÍ Ldte Capitaliil, Durham NC. 1 991 . Jam§n lerement eating)
Copraphagia and
my be seen in some respects and a late devotoe of lwing) hffi a long liteEry atrd visual arts history' lt ¡s dEtribed
the traditioml Franldurt sdlml, Beniamin, Adomo, in the Marquis de Sade's Jül,heand, in Surealiil, re arc
Hodóeimr, wño sim¡larly sougtú to revise Mailiil reminded ol it in Salvad0r Dalí's painl¡ng The bguhdw Game,
,929, diagmmmat¡Elly ¡llustmted in Bata¡l¡e's Doffint§,
:1,:,..1.fhe,fit ,rdres in question are almost Érta¡nlythose
"gan Deember 1929. See Dam Ads, Dalí London 1982, p 6S'
oi ihá'iáitmy arores around Liverpool Street' the large railMy
:l:lláái6iii¡¡he Ear of London ln lad one of Gilben & George's ili . TRANSGBESSION' Therc is ds Plefo MaEo¡i's Mede {a¡t¡sta (90 em, '1961)'
PROHIBITION AND TABOO see Gemno Celant, Eeru Maumí efil¡h. HLluadoa
. ,,rrl:l:iiiúilS sdlpture perfomane§ took plae under the ardres alist Marc Oüinn alm used
'irr:,:r:lllr,:l'riii:aable 1998, p. 274. Ihe mntemporary
Street, El (near to Limehouse Stat¡on) in 1970
1
Jacqus Denida, h¡s om emrent in a sr¡6 of 'Shit Pa¡flings', see Ma¡c
lnamate lways by Wll Self, David Ihorp and Mark
',,,; 4 weirlrop) 'FoE and SigniliEtiof¡ i¡ W¡iting aill Difterefle, Alan Bas Aainn:
1ll' Bud Flanagan (born Chaim Beuven
Gisboume), London 1998. Referene hffi already bBn mde
I 869-1968, Chesney Allen {1893-1982) (tm6l.), GhiEgo atrd London 1978: rcpriiled, London 1993, p 3
with regard tothe *ri6
on th¡s sub¡ed by Gilbert & George
2
"'"' .""llll'l'l' 5
op cit note 2' p 47 Geoqe Bataille, "The fsrival, orlheTlansgmion of
' 1 1
lt my be oincidemal (bú nonethd§ appmpíate) thai
ri::rl:::lt_ RohibitioÑ in The AHNí share' Robert Hudey (transl )'
6 Dominique taporle's ,rilory of §áif ms published ¡n English
vol. ll,'Ihe Hifory ol Eroticim', NMYorkf 991, pp'
., ttiu., p. eo
at this time by Cambridge M§. 1993. originally wittetr
89-94. The te)ú orig¡nat6 lÍom ¿'Eofim, Paris, 1957
r::::lrll:Illiihái itr Pari$ in 1968, it ms pübli§hed in tE[E 6lhB Histoire
our nrt Means', statement by the añists in GrtÓel
3 Affitt la Mede (Prulogre) in 1 978. h dealt e)rt eGively with
& George: The Complete Pidurcs 1971-85' rcÜodued Barill", 'lh" sdt*a of sovere¡gnlf in fhe tte
8 e t953, bui only published ¡n 1976 Entury h¡siory of use in the visual arts, beginn¡ng with
Viraly Komar, Komar/Melam¡d: Tw Soviet a§ early
De Chirim, the kendr Surealist lntenalional e)ó¡bition
diss¡Zetrt arfistt London and New York I979
I B"tuill",'Pr"f"o' Meaning otthe General using mannequiffi in 1938, and in the post-wr period
9 AHNI!
"nd'The
Sha@Robert Hurley (traml ), artils l¡ke Duane Hanson, John de Andrca and morc reeÍl
Carrer Ratdiff, Konat & Melanid, NewYork 1988' p 17 E@nü!V in the
vol. l, NewYod(1991, pp' g-14,19-26. "1 havetried ¡n @ritempomry altists Chafl6 Bay and Ron Mued(
5
ttrteniewwith Sarah Keil'Gonder Blende§', mutation to e)Qlain the d¡ve6if¡Etion of types within specie§
@1., StedliikVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,'1997
frme 0¿f, May 1-8. 1996, pp. 18'19 (p 18) and the serual ori0¡n ol speci6. H¡s relevam herc may be
!3 due only to the the fact that his ideas wre ogounded by Percl
Prul Kokk",'An l,,t"ruiewwith UlaY
7
See: Douglm Fogle, 'A S€tologiel Aesthetie Byshe Shelley (r792-1822) and Marv Shelley (1797-1851 )
ard Abramovic, ibíd, P 1'19 qeat¡otr of
an idluential badqmund to her
lor the lircd 0l See¡ng' in Chapmnm¡ld, eñih' and fomed
l4 61., london 1996. The showl]avelled t0 lhe GEzer ÉankelEtein. The Etalogue Chapnanwthlis intmdued ¡tr
Thomas McEvilley, 'Eth¡6, Esthet¡6, and Felation in the wrk
Kunstvotein, Graz, and Kunst'Wed@, Bedin, in
'1997 pseudo-Gothic s¡pt asmiated with lhe Go(h¡c homr traditiotr'
of Marina Abramovic aadUlay' in Modus V¡vendi: Wotk 1980-
85 eú¡b. mt., StedeliikVan Abbemuseum' Eindhoven' 1985 15
8
ln tem of implicit referetrm to Bataille, s@ Georg¿ ln their atalogue lloly ¿iáerthe Chapmsn's e)(Íetrded le)d
15 Batditte: VÉioÉ o¡ EE§, Seleúed W¡ititgs 1927-1939,
(winen by Jake but ollaboEt¡vely agreed) is a s¡mulamm of
The series of desqiptive quotes for the¡r Mrks i§ lrom
Allan Stoeld (ed. and itrtD.), Allan Stoeld with Carl B' a bmk or ep¡lle lmthe Bble, as ¡sthe g6nenl aPpeanne
tJlay/Abnmovic Perf oman@s 1 975-1 988'!'ttidt preserf s the
Lovitt and Donald M. Leslie, Jl (tmnsl'), Iheory and book h ¡s linered with südl hallucinatory language
o, the
performanes in ind¡vidual sedions that are not paginated
Hilory of Uterature, vol. 14, Minnesla 1985 and litled 'Pleasumblc Disgust in lhe Iheatn of Abhomre:
24
l, rhis, Elmgrcn & DragM arc indebted t0 earlier pcit¡ons lJudirh l0
&iler,il. fte Computsry Max Em« frequemly Elered to hiNlf in the th¡rd peMn
lilc Datr cmham, cordon
vis-á.vis spaE adopted by af¡sts 0der of Se¡/Gender/D6irc' i¡ Gende¡ lmuhles, London 1999, and the third eye Ms the 'eye of the unmmious self,.
Il,lana-Cla* and lawene We¡nei Se Dan Gmhan ,Theatei pp. 9-11: "... the d¡tindion betwen sexand geoder sil6 CId0ps-li&e, s¡ngleeyed figures appear lnquently in rcds,
C¡nom, Fow/, ¡n ,ock W Beligiü: Witirys ilrf proieds, the argumrf that r^ñatever biolog¡61 irtmctability sex appeats paliolarly in the 1920& Se: ,tt¿xEut, Barelona 1984, ill.
1965.1990,Canbtidge, Mñ. and londm 1993, pp. 170-.09 to havq gendel is flltumlly oBlructed: hmB gender i$ .the
pp. t56-57. Gmrge Bara¡lle @lled the sre th¡rd eye
25
neither the EUsl wh of sex nor as semingly lired ñ sf,,, pineal eyd as the oye ofimdiate existetrE. See: ,lll plneal
An of an etrpty spao is not u/ithoú prceden@
"úibition Eye', VB¡,N oÍ Ew§: Selected W¡iti\gs tg2l-gg,fhqry
2
- sve that tm paintets lahouEd in the Ehigreen & Swn Stemrt, '0bie ds ol D6irc, i¡ OD longing, and Higory of L¡temture, vol. 14, M¡nnesia 1994. p 82
DEgset spae. YB Klein e)óibited an mpty 0allery D[]lhm and london 1993, pp. 132-{9: "Within the
spae and vitr¡ne tr ¿e vide (Ihe Void), * lds Clert callery, developmont of dfturc with¡n the e)dEnge e@nfiry, t1 -There rc
Pads from 28 Apr¡l-l2 May, t9S8. Se, Siidra St¡dr
an old mmn u¡ho l¡ved ¡n a shoe. She had s
the satdt for authentic e)geriene and, omhively, mny úildren, she didnl loow h¡hat to do. She gave thm me
led.l, Ws Klein, ethih. 6t., ostf¡ldem 1998, pp. 134-35. the sardt for the aúhentic ob¡ect bem sit¡61.,, brdh without arry bread; she rniripped thm all soutrdly, and
(Ihe erdribition m
also shom at the Meum Lüdwig
*il themto bed." The Geman or English origim of this nusery
Colognq l(urrtammlug Nordrhe¡n Wesffalen, and MGeo 3
whut -nrtit,rt* titsdt ¡s diffiult to def¡ne but, in its ofigin, rlrym are still mdt debated. one ol the earl¡est illGtEtioE
1 2 lNlt to ln¡ury Giitt¡ngen 2004
War Callot Goya Dü( e)óib. @t', London 1998; Jale & Dinos Chapman,
(1 81 0-gG), made ¡tr 1875 Bom in D¡sa6tes of
is by Joseph Martin Kmnhe¡m
ms an enomGly influenúial @louled Bobel Hugh6, Goya, London and llewYork2003 13
Magdeburg, Kmnheim The defene also induded a ¡efeene to Roberi
primmaker mvod to Ed¡nburgh, then finally lo London' e
r^¡ho De Koon¡ng DBWing oI 1953'
3
"Ihe orpce (or ederc to fall), thal
odaer ra¡hidr Rausdtenberg's mrk elled Effied
1846. His mlour pdtrts wrc d¡riribúed rhreughout Eumpe' ill p 50
& DitrG Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People
irrcred¡ably mmes a dopper, is mpml and dedh; it Sse Jake
1 2
eck'E a & Adele', et'fib' d', Eva & Athle: up6ets sven morc violently the one r¡/ho mnlrenfs it as
Robe,t 14
The effeús ol both shod( and laughter, and the fact
Ff
@,F ttivh- Éere et Gi"es Paris 2006 Mwum of Aft, Philadelphia, 1982, pp' 174-175' A no§lalg¡c 20
¡mage 0l &itishn§fam¡liarthrough mrry s¡mlam
Miúel toueuh, 'Panopticim' in Disciple and Pun¡sh'
13
dart modme C€rfE Gmg6 hrnpido¡, Pdb 1994 t B* Orrg*t Taki,E Ha@ p. § 2
Agu*¡, ft* h¡¡o, 'l¡ol¡ m tangffi Spectm ¡n a
3
qdm d Arú¡guity' ¡n Mu,rtw ard MM
U.l"gni, (rbo lo* s urophilia r uilñnis) b a ffil 14
Yirr* Villr*|, D* Rmn, tu{rcn & Dngst, ñlrtu Ddh tireaAtfrt2006, pp. 89-gl
fá¡ú wilh peíliparfs dsiving pledrc lun uim tu Maúa Ehgm & rraútrt Cologm 2007
-bydri*ing üirc, uimú¡ng in Flüth ürirEting 3
the tm nrodmity, lm nñ¡d| lffi the tradiliml añ qitim¡
mm ohe ff lEirg üimted upo[ Cdlrm
15
Fo, g*l *l* lfld Art, s Jeür"y
on lhstnB and &ian bqimingsof Modmirrr smlm Clnrlc Baudelaircb
flplHis m 'goldil duffi' tr lmtq sports, Wallbled§-l lad ffil EwimmotatAf, tmdotr 1S!8, and fffi sayd1863 The hiilsof Modem l,fe- ¡n
Gills A. Iiberglim, landÁrÍ, Pilb I gg5. For mEgEpl§ tu&la¡É SehÁd Witirys m kt a,ú Attisrs,¡{d.
4
ñ" trrdit¡- d
Brlidr hrnaing ¡ictu6 h ls4. tor a * BM *nitlwo MrcpeAiw l¡hr*§ I 9i5-l 973, PE OEru€r, Cilüfidge ard lddon 1922, pp. 39t-435.
músr?oBy puH¡Etixt Malcolm Cmmck Cdflúl s e¡óih eú.1909, Jarc fiilrúnE ülwHoriut&tfigart Coir*leÍtly, althilgh Fobatfy wittm arund 1859/60,
ñwik &ilklt, Atmian ail Mr Sptittg tut lm Gmno Midnd He¡za.utiláal§l
1S)9, and Celañ, it appearcd in puui6tim at s€dly ¡n sm tim §
tlE Mü hilúiñintlawqiniailhwú EB MatFI:slE Déiw wfrE úercfiEt elfbited.
Ár¿ 2007. 'np wk
a trihne ro lim l¡ohleb tatlH atd
b prr with HeideggB)tlE fatiEr fuuB
'6 Tl*y -uirm. 1i,
filily ñiat¡mlnidffrry, 6 ! ¡dl storhc Bfti{l
vúth nith rcgardlo mdantlEoris m plEnsBplogy nE a
f*tlE Urdop,*t *¡ hitdy of cmimltb siieri mnH,
tráditim il¡dtho nat¡ob lm d b¡r+lEtdr¡ng iltd huf¡ru otEpts l$flh by Edmld Hwd
arc elabtrdtod at w AlbeÍ Afhadeff, lhe Balt ú tlg tt|fdt§, Cfuimfr,
{1059-1938), ¡n a urúorof boobon htuit¡m ard Att ilil| Ba@ MwaúlLtrdtrrd NtryoIk2002
5
Th" t* b th" * o flEir lalgc trmognpft ¡ilrosped¡o. For l¡lauie Me¡leutunty (l9ll&{l I e
Wb§,6d YenhlJallYül<atd Indo0 ZXt6 nn ñwbgy ú h,Wiu(1946) and hb sis d 5
Alice Stepanekm a DAADsdElarCrip tudHt
olleded ñys IrlshriTp¿trof ftrEpú¡ían fist tnBl. ¡n at s't Matinbsd|ml of Art lfldon
5
tt *x W Ogi*tsrirymM timt¡B ild n de0tric 1963. Boih hm ben publidEd in tIlIffi editim
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