Kata Legrady

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kata Legrady
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Rosenberg
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:80
Dimensions(mm): Height 260,Width 220
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9788857219653
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skira
Imprint Skira
Publication Date 2 June 2014
Publication Country Italy

Description

Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought. Her approach takes the form of a symbolic encounter between objects associated with childhood with those associated with violence. In her work, an artillery shell, a bomb, a pistol, a Kalashnikov can be transformed from devices of death to works of art. The book gathers the work exhibited at Mudima foundation of the artist from the Guns and Candies of 2008, to the Gasmasks of 2009, Little Boy in 2009 and 2010, and the more recent works, from 2011: Mickey, Pearl Harbor; Government Balancoir; CatWoman; Cheval a Bascule, all the way to the Disney series. At first sight there is no precise message, no hidden aspect. We are not dealing with complex and stratified arrangements of images or objects but with restrained, frontal and simplified compositions. They are carriers that, as Jeff Koons put it so well, are there "to stimulate and activate the viewer's mental and physical state".

Author Biography

Arturo Schwarz is a scholar, art historian, poet, writer, lecturer, art consultant, and curator of international art exhibitions.