"Michael Rakowitz" : June 4-August 25, 2019, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom. "Michael Rakowitz" : October 7, 2019-January 19, 2020, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, Italy. "Michael Rakowitz" : March 11-August 30, 2020, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, June 4-August 25, 2019, at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, October 7, 2019-January 19, 2020, and at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 11-August 30, 2020. Bound. Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211).
Contents:
Artist's project. A letter on intentions, people, projects, and enchanted things / Nora Razian -- Works -- End matter -- Michael Rakowitz: a transatlantic interview / Iwona Blazwick -- Culinary ghosting: a journey through sweet-and-sour Iraq / Ella Shohat -- Ties that bind / Marianna Vecellio -- Take care of the world / Habda Rashid -- A particulate history / Nora Razian -- Works -- End matter -- Artist's project.
Summary:
Iraqi-American artist Rakowitz reconstructed thousands of artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites. Sculptor, detective, draughtsman, and some time chef, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (New York, 1973) takes his cue from the histories of buildings and objects to create enthralling environments. Moved by both the utopian aspirations and the disasters of modernity, Rakowitz's work focuses on place and time--modernist St. Louis, Art Nouveau Istanbul, post-Taliban Afghanistan, turn of the century Iraq. A consummate storyteller, he explores the fall out of conflict and exile while delighting in the vernacular and activist strategies that communities in extremis adopt to survive. This fully illustrated survey of his most important works is accompanied by an essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with Michael Rakowitz by Iwona Blazwick, and a range of perspectives contributed by Habda Rashid, Nora Razian, Ella Shohat, and Marianna Vecellio.
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