Barbara Kasten

Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

Stephanie Cristello, Humberto Moro, Hans Ulrich Obrist , Mimi Zeiger

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English

Skira
05 June 2023

Theory of architecture

In 2015, the Graham Foundation, in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, presented Barbara Kasten: Stages, the first major survey of the work of the Chicago-based artist. The exhibition spanned her nearly five-decade engagement with abstraction, light, and architectural form. Since the 1970s, Kasten (b. 1936) has developed her expansive photographic practice through the lens of sculpture, painting, theatre, textile, and installation. Well-known within photographic and contemporary art discourse, the artist has recently begun to be reconsidered within the broader context of architectural theory. This book, Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015-2020), concretizes this legacy within the artist's practice and contextualizes her ongoing investigations into how moving images and perception play within and through architectural forms.

Departing from Stages, the publication includes texts that encompass Kasten's work and exhibitions within the last five years while connecting to the artist's history of experimentations with light, including the influence of architect Le Corbusier, as well as site-specific responses to Shigeru Ban and Mies van der Rohe. Replete with full-colour plates, this book features a long-form interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, whose Chicago Marathon stage in 2019 was designed by Kasten; a two-part essay by artist Irena Haiduk on the construction of the camera and the artist's collaborations with corporate entities such as Polaroid; a feminist examination of the Bauhaus from architecture critic and curator Mimi Zeiger; relationships between Kasten's constructions and mid-century architects from Mexico and Brazil by Humberto Moro; and a speculative investigation into historical moments that provide a 'stage' through which to consider Kasten's formulations of space as cinema by editor Cristello.

Text by: Humberto Moro, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mimi Zeiger, Mimi Zeiger
Edited by: Stephanie Cristello
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.480kg
ISBN: 9788857247199
ISBN 10: 8857247198
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 05 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephanie Cristello is a contemporary art critic and curator based in Chicago. Her research is motivated by contemporary works that interrogate how language, text, and the use of poetic devices influence and shape the cultural and historical structures that surround us. Her recent books are Sustainable Societies for the Future (Motto / Malmö Art Museum, 2021) and Theodora Allen: Saturnine (Motto / Kunsthal Aarhus, 2020).

Reviews for Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

These artworks--the old ones and the new--do not easily fit the prescribed, process-obsessed descriptions so often found in writings about Kasten. But they're certainly not anomalies either. That these non-photographic creations haven't been seen as much is, for Cristello, a question not of quality, but support.--Taylor Dafoe ""Artnet""