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Item Number: 100934
Title: PATTI SMITH : Written Portrait
Author: Fernandez Orgaz, Laura (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788493689803
Description: Vitoria-Gasteiz: Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, 2009. 23cm., pbk., 171pp. prof. illus., several in color. Multi-lingual text. Exhibition catalogue. Publisher's summary: The basic aim of this first retrospective exhibition in Spain is to allow the public to discover her artistic works, especially her drawings dating from the Sixties and Seventies and her more recent black and white photographs taken with a Polaroid Land 250 camera. However, the design of the Gallery, with numerous open windows that connect the different spaces, allows visitors to discover the complicity between Patti Smith the musician, the poet and the artist. A small stage dominates the area dedicated to documenting the life and work of the artist. At all times, the exhibition allows visitors to perceive the personal traits that have conditioned her creative activities, in other words, her social commitment and activism. The exhibition includes a selection of drawings done since the Seventies and reflects Patti Smith’s interest in other artists and writers, as well as the presence of calligraphy and religious references in her works. These are subtle, schematic drawings with an intensely religious feeling. The 9/11 series, created following the September 11 terrorist attacks, is a major feature of the exhibition. This contains a number of highly poetic silkscreen printed drawings in which the artist emphasises a particular facet of the human condition, namely, the inability to communicate and live in peaceful coexistence. Photography also occupies an important place in the exhibition. It contains a selection of black and white photographs with numerous literary and artistic references, as well as the places visited by the artist while on tour. The subjects include every day objects, monuments, streets, domestic interiors, animals and people that appear to be frozen in time. These works seem to focus upon the melancholy evoked when one recalls small details, remote landscapes, places inhabited by the artists she admires. They are like small tributes made with a sensitive awareness. A large documentation area attempts to illustrate the different aspects of Patti Smith's work. Visitors have complete access to all the books and can listen to the records published in Spain and in the United States. Included among the documentation, there are 25 original LP record sleeves ceded by the Italian collector Gian Paolo Piga, and a projection of the film Dream of life, a documentary ballet Steven Sebring presented this year at the Berlin Festival and winner in this category of the 2008 Sundance Festival. Sebring's collection of photographs Objects of life, which depict a wide array of Patti Smith's personal effects, ranging from a guitar to her inseparable Polaroid Land camera, are also on show in the same Gallery.
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