Anri Sala


The first monograph on this eastern European artist's celebrated work.


Survey by Mark Godfrey, Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Focus by Liam Gillick, Artist's Choice by Ervin Hatibi, Writings by Anri Sala


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Overview

  • Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos, photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and curators the world over
  • Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its medium
  • Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002)
  • This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Anri Sala's work


 

About the author(s)

Mark Godfrey teaches at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has written catalogue essays on Fiona Tan, Tacita Dean and Matthew Buckingham, and he contributes regularly to Artforum, Frieze and October. In 2002 he curated an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre on the work of Douglas Huebler.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He has been co-curator of such international biennials as Manifesta 1 (Rotterdam, 1996), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 2nd Guangzhou Biennale (2005). Currently Inviato Speciale of Domus magazine, Obrist has also edited more than sixty books, including Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1 (2003) and do it (2005).

Liam Gillick is an artist based in London and New York, whose work has received widespread acclaim, including a 2002 nomination for the Turner Prize.



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