Common Wealth
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 21.7 x 17.5 cm.
  • 126 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1854375075

Common Wealth

Jessica Morgan, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, Gabriel Orozco

Common Wealth

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 22 - December 28, 2003. Essay and interviews by Jessica Morgan with artists Gabriel Orozco and Carsten Höller. Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn by Iris Mickein. Interview with Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla by Sophie McKinlay. Additional text by Jean-Luc Nancy adn Chantal Pontbriand. Fully illustrated. "Published to accompany a group exhibition at Tate Modern bringing together five celebrated contemporary artists from Latin America and Europe, 'Common Wealth' explores the meanings, implications and politics of the words 'common' and 'wealth.' How the wealth is manifested in art beyond the simple fact of the work's status as commodity, and what type of exchange must take place for another type of exchange must take place for another type of currency to emerge? Illustrated in color throughout, 'Common Wealth' contains essays by Jessica Morgan, Tate Curator, and Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics; and interview with Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg; as well as interviews with the five featured artists." -- from catalogue's back cover.

London, United Kingdom: Tate Publishing,
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