Tamara Kostianovsky

Name: Tamara Kostianovsky
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SKU: 9783777439174
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Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky transforms discarded clothing into powerful textile sculptures that explore themes of cultural displacement, identity, and Latin America's violent past. Her work, encompassing butchered carcasses, slayed birds, and severed trees, merges texture, colour, and emotion to confront systemic violence and envision an ecological, post-colonial future.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, Latin American culture, and socially engaged sculpture.

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Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America. Today, these emotionally charged materials coalesce in a post-colonial vision for an ecological future.

Tamara Kostianovsky creates sculptures from textiles that address the relationship between landscapes, the body, and violence. This volume highlights distinct bodies of her work including sculptures of butchered carcasses, slayed birds, and severed trees. Built with layers of texture, colour, and emotion, these works dive head-first into the tension between beauty and horror, confronting histories of systemic violence and transforming them into utopian environments.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777439174

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 January 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 55 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Gonzalo Casals
Text by Rachel Vera Steinberg
Interviewer Tatiana Flores

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Tamara Kostianovsky creates sculptures from textiles that address the relationship between landscapes, the body, and violence. This volume highlights distinct bodies of her work including sculptures of butchered carcasses, slayed birds, and severed trees. Built with layers of texture, color, and emotion, these works dive head-first into the tension between beauty and horror, confronting histories of systemic violence and transforming them into utopian environments.