Marisa Culatto

Gebundenes Buch

Flora: A Frozen English Garden

Beschreibung

Flora: A Frozen English Garden presents artist Marisa Culatto’s Flora series from a botanical perspective, with texts by botanical researcher and landscape gardener Eduardo Barba, and botanical watercolour illustrations by Anna Tiulkina. Culatto’s Flora includes 35 works, each featuring a selection of plant life that has been composed, frozen and then photographed in the manner of a classic still life. There is a conscious act of staging but also an element of chance encounter to these works as the artist restricted herself to collecting the vegetation she came across on walks or in the day-to-day tasks of her daily life. As a consequence, each still life features plants that were found near one another and in a specific part of the world, such as the South East of England. The conceptual intention addresses beauty, the loss of it, and the vain attempt to hold on to it. Through these works, Culatto tries to understand and accept the value of fading youth; Flora is her personal way of exploring and coming to terms with it. Ultimately, this body of work also speaks of the very act of photography: to freeze the moment. Flora: A Frozen English Garden is presented in 35 chapters – one for each work in the Flora series. In addition to the artwork itself, each section includes botanical content: Barba writes about a single plant from the relevant work and, as the plants in Flora are encased in ice and are not always clearly visible, Tiulkina’s illustration provides an accurate depiction of the chosen plant. The book also includes a thorough introductory text by the internationally renowned contemporary art curator Greg Hilty, whose interest in the intersection of disciplines has spanned his tenures at the Hayward Gallery, Arts Council England and Lisson Gallery, where he has been the Curatorial Director since 2008.

Autor

Marisa Culatto was born in the Canary Islands and lives and works in the UK. She has spent the past decade working almost exclusively with digital photography preoccupied with pushing – and blurring – the boundaries of photography into the languages and practices usually associated with other mediums.   Constraints, domesticity and daily rituals are at the centre of her practice. Culatto is also interested in the notion of reality being a construct, and, therefore, much of her work addresses contradictions, misperceptions and a degree of visual ambiguity. In addition, due to her ambivalent relationship with the photographic medium, she is interested in exploring photography itself as her subject.   Lockdown had a big impact on Culatto’s practice, with her reincorporating paint, ink, markers and watercolour on paper, and recently combining all of these with photography.   Culatto’s work has been exhibited extensively on the international stage, both in solo and group exhibitions. In 2011, she won the AlNorte Grant at the X National Contemporary Arts Week of Asturias, Spain. She was a finalist in the 2015–16 Contemporary Talents competition for the Fondation François Schneider, France; won the Juror’s Special Commendation at the XXI International Photography Prize Rafael Ramos García, Tenerife, Spain; and in 2017 was a finalist at the VIA Arts Prize, London. Her work features in numerous private collections around the world, including a piece that was acquired by the prestigious Soho House Collection for permanent display. Her body of work Flora was published by The Observer newspaper in August 2020, both online and in print.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Dog Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912165568
• ISBN-10: 1912165562
• Artikelnr.: 67412097