This Is The House That Jack Built.

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-86930-935-4
Verlag: Steidl Gerhard Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, im Schuber, Slip-cased, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 346 mm, Gewicht: 1943 g

This book offers an insight into the private contemporary art and design collection of Maja Hoffmann. As Hoffmann enters a new, increasingly public phase of philanthropy embodied by the construction of her Frank Gehry designed, non-profit LUMA Foundation Center in Arles, she is encouraged to share part of her collection to reveal that living with art and amongst artists is a dynamic and sincere experience, as well as a harbor for dreams.
Here photographer François Halard and art director Beda
Achermann have created a flow of images depicting very human environments, absent of people yet populated by their spirit. To complete the book, Rirkrit Tiravanija has chosen the British nursery rhyme This Is The House That Jack Built which is dispersed (in his custom-designed font) between the photos: slightly obsessive yet full of humor, the text removes any possible traces of vanity in the purpose of this publication and creates space for Hoffmann’s vision of the world as an extended “house”—a place for storytelling, family, and an ongoing exchange with artists and thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffmann, Maja

Weitere Mitwirkende

Halard, François

Tiravanija, Rirkrit

Über Autor(innen)

Hoffmann, Maja
Maja Hoffmann is a Swiss-born contemporary art collector and a
producer who for over two decades has supported innovative cultural projects including art production, publications, film, as well as social and environmental activities. Hoffmann is inspired in her mission by a long-standing family tradition of active philanthropy.

Halard, François
François Halard lives and works between New York, Paris and Arles. He studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and soon after began working for Décoration Internationale. In 1984 he moved to New York where he began to work regularly for American
Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Magazine.
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Tiravanija, Rirkrit
Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Rirkrit Tiravanija is one of the most influential artists of his generation. Tiravanija, whose practice
combines traditional object-making, performance, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action, has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museé
de la Ville de Paris; and Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Tiravanija’s numerous awards include the Benesse from the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award, and the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.