Heidi Bucher (German edition)

Metamorphosen

Jana Baumann, Carina Bukuts, Chus Martínez , Jenni Sorkin

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Hatje Cantz
03 February 2022

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

The Swiss artist Heidi Bucher was a major feminist figure on the international neoavantgarde art scene, whose work is characterized by a unique performative, yet material concept of sculpture. As early as the 1970s Bucher was experimenting with unusual materials such as latex, breathing life into them. She would pour liquid rubber onto surfaces and then pull it off again with great physical force, literally coming to grips with the world of things she experienced and pressing forward into psychological border zones. By transforming materials in ways that were as radical as they were sensual, she explored forms of human existence and how they are embedded in societal and private power structures. This monograph presents Bucher's oeuvre from her early days as a student in Zurich in the 1940s, to her experimental phase in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s, to her major works of ""skinning"" architecture and people, all the way to the pieces she created during her final years on Lanzarote.

Designed by: Harald Pridgar
Text by: Carina Bukuts, Chus Martínez, Jenni Sorkin
Edited by: Jana Baumann
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.760kg
ISBN: 9783775747929
ISBN 10: 3775747923
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 03 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The performative object artist HEIDI BUCHER (1926-1993) was raised in Switzerland, studied under Johannes Itten in Zurich, and enjoyed her initial successes in the late 1960s in New York and California. Her works can be found in numerous museums and private collections around the world.