Grace Weaver. STEPS

Friedrichs Foundation

Buch | Hardcover

80 Seiten

2024
König, Walther (Verlag)
978-3-7533-0548-6 (ISBN)

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While Grace Weaver’s early work mostly presented young, female protagonists in quiet introspection in intimate settings, in the paintings of her 2020 exhibition STEPS, she substantially raises the emotional stakes. Inspired by Frank O’Hara’s poem “A Step Away from Them” (1964), she daringly explores discomfort, insecurity, estrangement and embarrassment from one’s own body right in the bustling open of the city streets. With her maximalist use of an almost Fauvist palette, as Susan Thompson states, Weaver unfolds a spectacular theater of public life. Trying in vain to keep up appearances, her figures uneasily rush along, stumble, fall and downright weep. Though previously considered an individual struggle, during the pandemic anxiety became a universal reality. “That’s what it is to be human,” Weaver contemplates, “that struggle to stand upright.”

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2023
Co-Autor	Susan Thompson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 310 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte	Angst • Bildende Kunst • Grace Weaver • Malerei • Psychologie
ISBN-10	3-7533-0548-0 / 3753305480
ISBN-13	978-3-7533-0548-6 / 9783753305486
Zustand	Neuware