Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance

Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance
Author: Quinn Latimer
Publisher: Mousse Publishing, Sadie Coles HQ
Language: English
Pages: 96
Size: 12.5 x 18.5 cm
Weight: 210 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9788867490127
Price: €22.00
Product Description

"Distance is far, nobody said. (Somebody, surely.)" So begins Quinn Latimer's strange, elliptical account of an exhibition and a body of work by Sarah Lucas that the poet and critic has never seen, made and installed in a city she had not yet visited. In the spring of 2012 the renowned English artist's exhibition "NUDs" was mounted in Mexico City at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, the famed pyramid-like museum built by the muralist and architect Juan O'Gorman to house Rivera's approximately 50,000 Mesoamerican artifacts and objects. In the summer of 2012 Latimer found herself in Elba, the island of Napoleon's exile, where she embarked on this small, charged book, consisting of four interconnected essays where the writer limns the myriad impressions, ideas, objects, personages, and histories relevant to Lucas's fantastically transparent yet complicated "NUDs"...