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Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz
Library Shelf Location 18.RAKO
Publication Date 01 Jan 2019
Description

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz’s (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artefacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz’s casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonisation, modernism and globalism. The artist’s life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian.

ISBN 9788836643332
Quantity 1
Pages 224 Pages, 280 mm x 240 mm
Editor Sergio Di Stefano
Format Hardback
Publisher Silvana
Related Artist Michael Rakowitz
Category Artists' Monographs A-Z
Keywords Middle East, Utopian, modernity, Storytelling, History

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