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Smiley Has No Nose
出版Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2016-06
主題Art / General
ISBN09889970379780988997035
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ggJpjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋For more than a decade, Tala Madani has developed a practice centered on playful yet provocative representations of men. Her paintings, drawings, and stop-motion animations combine a lyrical and gestural figuration with mature and sometimes disturbing subject matter. These deadpan and often hilarious works satirize conventional notions of masculinity, recasting the male figure in various scenarios that both mock virility and redistribute the dynamics of power. Bright pastel color fields form the ground for group scenes in which balding, rotund, and mustachioed middle-aged men blindly follow each other in circles, undergo interrogation, and perform various humiliating acts. Unflinchingly scatological and abject, Madani's consistent rendering of bodily fluids and human waste encourages a larger consideration of authority, desire, and shame.Tala Madani: Smiley Has No Nose focuses on the artist's recent works in their American institutional premiere at CAM and the List. The catalog will feature two scholarly essays providing an overview of Madani's practice, including her film work, by curators Kelly Shindler and Henriette Huldisch; a conversation between Madani and artist A.L. Steiner; artwork plates including images of the works in the exhibition; a biography; and a bibliography.