Angela Su

Melencolia
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-884919-38-1
Verlag: University of Washington Press

Buch, Englisch, 49 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 182 g

Angela Su: Melencolia is published in conjunction with the artist's eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere. The richly illustrated book provides an overview of the artist's work since 2013 which includes installations, speculative docufiction videos, and drawings and hair embroideries of composite cyborgian bodies. The title is a tribute to Albrecht Dürer's engraving "Melencolia I" (1514). In medieval philosophy, melancholy is associated with insanity, and late in the Renaissance it was also linked to creative genius. This print is a divining rod for understanding Su's varied practice. Weaving a spiritual dimension in works that veer into strange and uncomfortable spheres, she reenvisions interlocking symbolisms and expands into the mediums and realms drawn from the modern and contemporary archive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Su, Angela

Hertz, Betti-Sue

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer

Über Autor(innen)

Hertz, Betti-Sue
Betti-Sue Hertz became Director and Chief Curator at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery in 2019. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on the intersection of critical visual culture, transnational exchange, and socially relevant issues. Hertz was Director, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx (1992–98); Curator of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art (2000–2008); Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008–15); and Public Arts Consultant, TLS Landscape Architecture (2015–20). Hertz has organized more than sixty exhibitions during her career. She was a member of Stanford Art Institute’s Creative Cities Working Group (2016–19) and a founding member of RepoHistory (1989–2000). Hertz received a B.A. from Goddard College, an M.F.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York. She has taught social art history and theory at Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute, and University of California, Berkeley.

Angela Su holds degrees in biochemistry from the University of Toronto and visual arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She presented Arise, Hong Kong in Venice in the Hong Kong pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale and Lauren O—The Greatest Levitator in the Polyhedric Cosmos of Time at M+ in 2023. Su’s commissioned work, Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close, was exhibited at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019). Group exhibitions include Levyhalli (Suomenlinna, Helsinki, 2021); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2020); The Drawing Center (New York City, 2020); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2020); Frieze London (London, 2019); Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019); Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna, 2017); The 2nd CAFAM Biennale (Beijing, 2014); and the 17th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2010). She published an artist novel, Bert (2013), and science fiction anthology, Dark Fluid (2017), where she uses science fiction as a tool for social justice.