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KIKI SMITH
KUNSTWERKE
Kiki Smith | Copy Cat | Meandering Prints | UM Stamps | Kiki Smith is known for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. Smith uses a broad variety of materials, continuously expanding and evolving a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textile. Smith has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including over 25 solo museum exhibitions. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. Smith has been represented by Pace Gallery, New York since 1994 | Supported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art | https://www.umma.umich.edu/ | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Printmaking | Art21 | „Extended Play“ | Episode #184: Filmed in 2002 at the printmaking workshop Harlan & Weaver, artist Kiki Smith discusses the challenges and pleasures of printmaking. Shown working on a portrait titled „Two“ (2002), Smith and the workshop’s master printers make numerous proofs and revisions until she is pleased with the image. Using ink on paper, Smith combines traditional and self-taught etching techniques in her attempts to represent the subtleties of human flesh. Kiki Smith’s work explores the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Her sculptures, drawings, and prints are often meditations on mortality, incorporating animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales |
CREDITS | Producer Ian Forster | Consulting Producer Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich | Interview Eve Moros Ortega | Camera Mead Hunt | Sound Bill Wander | Editor Morgan Riles | Artwork Courtesy Kiki Smith & Harlan & Weaver | New York | Theme Music Peter Foley | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Kiki Smith | „I Make Things to Experience the Process“ | TateShots | Tate Gallery | https://www.tate.org.uk/ | „I don’t question my impetus…I just do it and see what happens,‘ says artist Kiki Smith. From her home in New York, which also serves as her studio, Kiki Smith talks about the ongoing experimentation that drives her art, from the provocative sculptures of the female body that made her a leading feminist artist in the 1980s, to her more recent work that draws inspiration from the nature. ‚I don’t try to set my work on any path or any direction. I really try to follow it,‘ she says. ‚As much as possible I don’t question my impetus or motive for doing something. I just do it and then see what happens.“ |
YouTube
Kiki Smith über die eigene Weiblichkeit und das Altern | VOGUE Gemany | Im Interview mit Vogue spricht die deutsch-amerikanische Künstlerin Kiki Smith über die Beziehung zu ihrer eigenen Weiblichkeit und die Vorzüge des Älterwerdens | Video Nikki Powell | Creative Direction & Production Alexandra Bondi de Antoni | Vielen Dank an die Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Procession | Opening and Artist Talk | Haus der Kunst | München | https://hausderkunst.de/ | Artist Talk | Kiki Smith in conversation with Petra Giloy-Hirtz | For more than three decades, American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg) has created a multifaceted practice that deals with the political and social as well as the philosophical and spiritual aspects of human nature. Her fearless investigation of the body is a complex consideration of the human condition, addressing topics of age, death, wounding and healing, resuscitation, fragmentation, birth, sexuality, gender and memory. In addition to sculpture, Smith works in a variety of other media, notably drawing, etching and lithography; but also in the mediums of artists‘ books, photography, video and more recently tapestry. Drawing upon traditional and newer forms of craftsmanship, her work employs a variety of materials such as bronze, plaster, glass, porcelain, paper, aluminum, latex, feathers or beeswax | The exhibition presents an overview of Smith’s artistic practice over the past three decades. Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism. However, since the early 1990s, Smith has become increasingly interested in alternative narratives, exploring history, myths, legends and tales, religious belief and the traditions of nonwestern cultures. „Procession“ embraces this multiplicity and maps its development into the present day | The exhibition is curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and organized by Haus der Kunst | YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
KIKI SMITH
KUNSTWERKE
Kiki Smith | Copy Cat | Meandering Prints | UM Stamps | Kiki Smith is known for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. Smith uses a broad variety of materials, continuously expanding and evolving a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textile. Smith has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including over 25 solo museum exhibitions. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. Smith has been represented by Pace Gallery, New York since 1994 | Supported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art | https://www.umma.umich.edu/ | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Printmaking | Art21 | „Extended Play“ | Episode #184: Filmed in 2002 at the printmaking workshop Harlan & Weaver, artist Kiki Smith discusses the challenges and pleasures of printmaking. Shown working on a portrait titled „Two“ (2002), Smith and the workshop’s master printers make numerous proofs and revisions until she is pleased with the image. Using ink on paper, Smith combines traditional and self-taught etching techniques in her attempts to represent the subtleties of human flesh. Kiki Smith’s work explores the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Her sculptures, drawings, and prints are often meditations on mortality, incorporating animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales |
CREDITS | Producer Ian Forster | Consulting Producer Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich | Interview Eve Moros Ortega | Camera Mead Hunt | Sound Bill Wander | Editor Morgan Riles | Artwork Courtesy Kiki Smith & Harlan & Weaver | New York | Theme Music Peter Foley | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Kiki Smith | „I Make Things to Experience the Process“ | TateShots | Tate Gallery | https://www.tate.org.uk/ | „I don’t question my impetus…I just do it and see what happens,‘ says artist Kiki Smith. From her home in New York, which also serves as her studio, Kiki Smith talks about the ongoing experimentation that drives her art, from the provocative sculptures of the female body that made her a leading feminist artist in the 1980s, to her more recent work that draws inspiration from the nature. ‚I don’t try to set my work on any path or any direction. I really try to follow it,‘ she says. ‚As much as possible I don’t question my impetus or motive for doing something. I just do it and then see what happens.“ |
YouTube
Kiki Smith über die eigene Weiblichkeit und das Altern | VOGUE Gemany | Im Interview mit Vogue spricht die deutsch-amerikanische Künstlerin Kiki Smith über die Beziehung zu ihrer eigenen Weiblichkeit und die Vorzüge des Älterwerdens | Video Nikki Powell | Creative Direction & Production Alexandra Bondi de Antoni | Vielen Dank an die Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Procession | Opening and Artist Talk | Haus der Kunst | München | https://hausderkunst.de/ | Artist Talk | Kiki Smith in conversation with Petra Giloy-Hirtz | For more than three decades, American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg) has created a multifaceted practice that deals with the political and social as well as the philosophical and spiritual aspects of human nature. Her fearless investigation of the body is a complex consideration of the human condition, addressing topics of age, death, wounding and healing, resuscitation, fragmentation, birth, sexuality, gender and memory. In addition to sculpture, Smith works in a variety of other media, notably drawing, etching and lithography; but also in the mediums of artists‘ books, photography, video and more recently tapestry. Drawing upon traditional and newer forms of craftsmanship, her work employs a variety of materials such as bronze, plaster, glass, porcelain, paper, aluminum, latex, feathers or beeswax | The exhibition presents an overview of Smith’s artistic practice over the past three decades. Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism. However, since the early 1990s, Smith has become increasingly interested in alternative narratives, exploring history, myths, legends and tales, religious belief and the traditions of nonwestern cultures. „Procession“ embraces this multiplicity and maps its development into the present day | The exhibition is curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and organized by Haus der Kunst | YouTube
WIKIPEDIA
KIKI SMITH
KUNSTWERKE
Kiki Smith | Copy Cat | Meandering Prints | UM Stamps | Kiki Smith is known for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. Smith uses a broad variety of materials, continuously expanding and evolving a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textile. Smith has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including over 25 solo museum exhibitions. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award; the 2009 Edward MacDowell Medal, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, among others. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. Smith has been represented by Pace Gallery, New York since 1994 | Supported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art | https://www.umma.umich.edu/ | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Printmaking | Art21 | „Extended Play“ | Episode #184: Filmed in 2002 at the printmaking workshop Harlan & Weaver, artist Kiki Smith discusses the challenges and pleasures of printmaking. Shown working on a portrait titled „Two“ (2002), Smith and the workshop’s master printers make numerous proofs and revisions until she is pleased with the image. Using ink on paper, Smith combines traditional and self-taught etching techniques in her attempts to represent the subtleties of human flesh. Kiki Smith’s work explores the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Her sculptures, drawings, and prints are often meditations on mortality, incorporating animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales |
CREDITS | Producer Ian Forster | Consulting Producer Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich | Interview Eve Moros Ortega | Camera Mead Hunt | Sound Bill Wander | Editor Morgan Riles | Artwork Courtesy Kiki Smith & Harlan & Weaver | New York | Theme Music Peter Foley | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Kiki Smith | „I Make Things to Experience the Process“ | TateShots | Tate Gallery | https://www.tate.org.uk/ | „I don’t question my impetus…I just do it and see what happens,‘ says artist Kiki Smith. From her home in New York, which also serves as her studio, Kiki Smith talks about the ongoing experimentation that drives her art, from the provocative sculptures of the female body that made her a leading feminist artist in the 1980s, to her more recent work that draws inspiration from the nature. ‚I don’t try to set my work on any path or any direction. I really try to follow it,‘ she says. ‚As much as possible I don’t question my impetus or motive for doing something. I just do it and then see what happens.“ |
YouTube
Kiki Smith über die eigene Weiblichkeit und das Altern | VOGUE Gemany | Im Interview mit Vogue spricht die deutsch-amerikanische Künstlerin Kiki Smith über die Beziehung zu ihrer eigenen Weiblichkeit und die Vorzüge des Älterwerdens | Video Nikki Powell | Creative Direction & Production Alexandra Bondi de Antoni | Vielen Dank an die Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt | YouTube
Kiki Smith | Procession | Opening and Artist Talk | Haus der Kunst | München | https://hausderkunst.de/ | Artist Talk | Kiki Smith in conversation with Petra Giloy-Hirtz | For more than three decades, American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg) has created a multifaceted practice that deals with the political and social as well as the philosophical and spiritual aspects of human nature. Her fearless investigation of the body is a complex consideration of the human condition, addressing topics of age, death, wounding and healing, resuscitation, fragmentation, birth, sexuality, gender and memory. In addition to sculpture, Smith works in a variety of other media, notably drawing, etching and lithography; but also in the mediums of artists‘ books, photography, video and more recently tapestry. Drawing upon traditional and newer forms of craftsmanship, her work employs a variety of materials such as bronze, plaster, glass, porcelain, paper, aluminum, latex, feathers or beeswax | The exhibition presents an overview of Smith’s artistic practice over the past three decades. Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism. However, since the early 1990s, Smith has become increasingly interested in alternative narratives, exploring history, myths, legends and tales, religious belief and the traditions of nonwestern cultures. „Procession“ embraces this multiplicity and maps its development into the present day | The exhibition is curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and organized by Haus der Kunst | YouTube
