Lali Chetwynd Livres

The UK-based artist Spartacus Chetwynd is known for her baroque, surreal performances that humorously bring together multiple visual references from art history and pop culture. One of Chetwynd's 2007 site-specific performances, sponsored by New York's Creative Time, was "Soylent Green, King Kong, Kasuma & Paul Auster Improvs." She liberally mixes references like Yves Klein's Anthropometries and Hieronymous Bosch characters with heavy metal and Michael Jackson's Thriller , somehow producing a unified whole that is evocative of how our culture disseminates information. As well as performances, Chetwynd who graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MFA in painting, produced a series of small canvases in 2004 and 2005 entitled Bat Opera . They also quote pop culture, while featuring obscure bits of Romanticism gleaned from art history and literature. A well-designed introduction to this emerging artist's work, this volume is printed on 12 differently colored papers.

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd was nominated 2012 for the Turner Prize. Known for her anarchic performances that draw widely from both high and low cultural sources such as Giotto and Star Wars, Chetwynd was selected to participate in ‘New Contemporaries’ 2004 at Coach Shed, Liverpool Biennial and Barbican Art Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions and major performances include The Monteverdi Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Monteverdi, Italy, 2013; ‘Home Made Tasers’, New Museum, New York (NY), USA, 2011-12 and ‘Odd Man Out’, Sadie Coles, London, 2011. In 2014 she has solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Studio Voltaire, London; and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.