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50 Times Bonami and Obrist by Teller

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Celebrating Hans Ulrich Obrist's fiftieth birthday, Francesco Bonami creates 50 oil portraits of the famed curator, merging humour and homage. Swiss gallery 107 S-chanf provided the space and materials for Bonami to complete these works in just two weeks, each portrait playfully referencing notable art figures like Edward Hopper and Ai Weiwei. Juergen Teller complements this visual tribute with photographs of Bonami and Obrist before each painting, crafting a unique and tongue-in-cheek exploration of portraiture.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, portraiture, and the vibrant world of curatorial collaboration.

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On the occasion of Hans Ulrich Obrist's fiftieth birthday in 2018, Swiss gallery 107 S-chanf asked fellow curator Francesco Bonami to create a celebratory exhibition. Bonami's initial idea was to invite 50 artists to create 50 portraits of Obrist in an ambitious collaborative homage. Yet the idea proved a little too ambitious, and Bonami decided to create the portraits all by himself. The gallery provided him with space and materials, and within just two weeks Bonami's 50 oil paintings were readyβ€”endearing and humorous works, many of which playfully incorporate art figures of the past and present including Edward Hopper, Ai Weiwei and Georg Baselitz.

During the Engadine Art Talks in January 2019, Juergen Teller was invited to view the exhibition 50 Times Obrist by Bonami, and with characteristic spontaneity he photographed Bonami and Obrist before each portrait. This resulting book, with Teller's photos on the left-hand pages and Bonami's paintings on the right, is an unconventional and tongue-in-cheek portrait of a portrait.

"To me, Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is what Campbell's soup was to Andy Warhol. He's the epitome of art, a sculpture, an icon."
β€”Francesco Bonami

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ARTnews praises the book for transforming two renowned curators into artworks themselves, highlighting its inventive and playful approach.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958296435

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 November 2019

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 102 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Born in Florence in 1955, Francesco Bonami is a renowned art critic and curator. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze and in the early nineties moved to the US where he was senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. In 2002 Bonami was artistic director of Turin's Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and in 2003 he was director of the fiftieth Venice Biennale. His books include Si crede Picasso. Come distinguere un vero artista contemporaneo da uno che non lo Γ¨ (2010) and L'arte nel cesso. Da Duchamp a Cattelan, ascesa e declino dell'arte contemporanea (2017). Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt fΓΌr Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as Vogue, System, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including those at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and from 2014 to 2019 held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden KΓΌnste NΓΌrnberg. His books with Steidl include Louis XV (2005), Marc Jacobs Advertising, 1998-2009 (2009), Siegerflieger (2015), The Master IV (2019) and Handbags (2019).

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