Mondo Cane

《蒙多甘蔗》

出版社 : Mercatorfonds; 第 Multilingual 版 (2019年8月6日)

语言 : 英语

平装 : 224页

ISBN-10 : 0300247745

ISBN-13 : 978-0300247749

商品重量 : 880 g

尺寸 : 21.08 x 1.78 x 25.4 cm

页面信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

挑衅性的、常常是滑稽的比利时艺术二人组Jos de Gruyter和Harald Thys以书本的形式呈现了他们对2019年威尼斯双年展的合作贡献。

比利时艺术家Jos de Gruyter（1965年生）和Harald Thys（1966年生）合作了二十多年，合作的艺术作品涉及电影、摄影、绘画、油画和雕塑等多种媒介；他们以发人深省的作品著称，常常带有反讽的幽默感。两人被选中代表比利时参加2019年威尼斯双年展，这本书伴随并记录了他们的展览，也名为《Mondo Cane》。这本书由一系列原创的、图文并茂的文字组成，以英语、法语、德语、荷兰语和意大利语交替书写。这些文字旨在唤起人们对现今欧洲环境中各种人类状况的回忆。它的标题是指1962年的一部意大利电影，该电影以一种旨在激发西方观众的风格记录了世界各地的文化习俗。这本书由艺术家们自己设计，图文并茂，既反映了de Gruyter和Thys对威尼斯双年展的贡献，也是一本艺术作品。

The provocative and often comic Belgian art duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys present in book form their collaborative contribution to the 2019 Venice Biennale

The Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) have collaborated for more than two decades on artworks in a variety of media, including film, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture; they are known for thought-provoking works, often imbued with an antic sense of humor. The pair was selected to represent Belgium at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and this book accompanies and documents their exhibit, also titled Mondo Cane. The book is composed of a series of original, illustrated texts, written alternately in English, French, German, Dutch, and Italian. The texts are intended to evoke a variety of human conditions in an environment reminiscent of present-day Europe. Its title refers to a 1962 Italian film that documented—in a style intended to provoke Western audiences—cultural practices from around the world. Lavishly illustrated and designed by the artists themselves, this book both reflects de Gruyter and Thys’s contribution to the Venice Biennale and is a work of art in its own right.