Books by Solveig �vsteb�
Let me consider it from here
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, Let me consider it from here features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly commissioned poems by Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Simone White, and Lynn Xu, and an epilogue by Solveig Øvstebø. These artists frequently draw from their own histories, humors, and instincts as they grapple with or reimagine what’s happening in the world around them. Across a range of mediums, their works open up spaces that oscillate between strange and familiar, registering deeply personal experiences as well as more ambient cultural and political pressures. Their practices are all similarly anchored in solitude and stretch outward to meet the world, guiding us to the liminal realms between the public and the intimate, the concrete and the fantastical.
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Seductive Exacting Realism
by Solveig �vsteb�, Irena Haiduk
A 13-volume set of Marcel Proust's collected works was published in Yugoslavia in 1967. This edition, in the Latin alphabet, was highly valued by Yugoslav intelligentsia for its elegant translation from French by the poet Tin Ujevic. During the Bosnian civil war, these Proust sets fetched up to the equivalent of a full year's salary in the Belgrade black markets. They were frequently looted together with other valuables from Bosnian homes. The set exhibited in Irena Haiduk's “Seductive Exacting Realism” was seized by local police from Belgrade Kalenic Market in 1995. It was acquired at a public auction in 2014. It is missing volume number 12.
Published on the occasion of Irena Haiduk, “Seductive Exacting Realism”―a two-part project that was presented as parallel exhibitions at the Renaissance Society and the 14th Istanbul Biennial―this volume features contributions by Ivo Andric, Hannah Feldman, Irena Haiduk, Monika Szewczyk, Marina Vishmidt, and Solveig Øvstebø.
Copublished with Renaissance Society
ContributorsIvo Andric, Hannah Feldman, Irena Haiduk, Monika Szewczyk, Marina Vishmidt, Solveig Øvstebø
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Richard Rezac: Address
by Solveig �vsteb�, Richard Rezac
The title of Richard Rezac’s Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific people, time, and place. This exhibition drew upon both elements of the word’s two meanings: the artist deliberately created and selected works in response to the architecture of the Renaissance Society’s gallery space, and the title also nods to the sculptures’ relationship to their presumptive audience.
This book showcases twenty pieces featured in the exhibition that are made of a wide range of materials including cherry wood, cast bronze, and aluminum and that span Rezac’s career—including newly commissioned pieces.s Through the concept of address, the exhibit and book explore the artist’s ongoing engagement with both tangible, mathematical ordering systems and the elusive mechanisms of memory and interpretation. This publication continues Rezac’s address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig Øvstebø, and new texts by Matthew Goulish, Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau.
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Centennial: A History of the Renaissance Society
by Bruce Jenkins, Aoibheann Sweeney, Pamela M. Lee, Solveig �vsteb�, Hamza Walker, Susan M. Bielstein, Nina Möntmann, Liesl M. Olson, R. H. Quatman
This major publication considers the Renaissance Society’s first hundred years. The volume features contributions from Davarian L. Baldwin, Susan Bielstein, Bruce Jenkins, Pamela M. Lee, Nina Möntmann, Liesl Olson, R.H. Quaytman, Anne Rorimer, and Aoibheann Sweeney. It also includes an interview between Susanne Ghez, Solveig Øvstebø, and Hamza Walker, and a comprehensive timeline of the institution’s programming over 100 years.
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