Tamara Kostianovsky

Rapacious Beauty

Gonzalo Casals, Rachel Vera Steinberg, Tatiana Flores

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Hirmer Verlag
21 April 2022

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Sculpture; Textile artworks; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

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.

Text by: Rachel Vera Steinberg
Interviewer: Tatiana Flores
Edited by: Gonzalo Casals
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 229mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9783777439174
ISBN 10: 3777439177
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.