Daiga Grantina

Atem, Lehm

Sara Fumagalli, Valentina Gervasoni, Andrew Berardini , Helga Christoffersen

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Hatje Cantz
23 April 2025

Sculpture; Installation art; Individual artists, art monographs

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"Sculptures of an Organic Artificiality

Atem, Lehm - the German words for ""breath"" and ""clay"", a title inspired by a poem by Paul Celan - is the first monograph dedicated to Latvian artist Daiga Grantina. Grantina's solo show at GAMeC in Bergamo represented a major evolution in her poetics, a decisive and coherent change of palette and pace compared to her amorphous in-situ installations that have characterized her work to date. A mural forms an open-ended structure with its potentially infinite combinations: It seems to breathe, constraining and distending the grounding of space.

The book's structure mirrors this evolution, exploring a before, characterized by large-scale environmental installations in New York's New Museum, the Biennale di Venezia and in Palais de Tokyo, Paris, to name a few, and an after, when the artist's sculptural environments seem to shift their locus of perception."

Text by: Andrew Berardini, Helga Christoffersen, Daiga Grantina
Edited by: Sara Fumagalli, Valentina Gervasoni
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 265mm, Width: 200mm,
ISBN: 9783775754200
ISBN 10: 3775754202
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming