Book: Danh Vo - Take My Breath Away

BRAND NEW BOOK
Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away
Edited by Katherine Brinson

With contributions by Susan Thompson

348 pages with 250 illustrationsHardcover9.25 × 11.75 inchesDanh Vo’s conceptual, installation-based practice dissects the cultural forces and private desires that shape our experience of the world. He often employs found objects, images, and texts to animate personal narratives that refract global political histories. Published to accompany the most comprehensive museum survey to date of the Danish artist’s work, this catalogue presents for the first time an illuminating overview of Vo’s work from the past 15 years.


Organized around nearly 30 major projects and installations, the volume ranges from Vo’s early performative works such as Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2003), in which he married and divorced acquaintances in order to add their surnames to his own, to his recent sculptural hybrids of classical and Christian statuary.


A lead essay by Katherine Brinson probes the artist’s roving, research-based process in which historical study, fortuitous encounters, and personal relationships are woven into psychologically potent tableaux. Significant recurring subjects include the legacy of colonialism and the fraught status of the refugee, as well as the image of the United States in its own collective imagination and in that of the world.


Additional keywords

Thomas Demand - Olafur Eliasson - Nan Goldin - Rosemarie Trockel - Wolfgang Tillmans - Danh Vo - Patti Smith - Landon Metz - Gerhard Richter - John Baldessari - Donald Judd - New Museum - Le Corbusier - Caruso St John - Douglas Stuart - Ocean Vuong - Josef Albers - Guggenheim - Bouroullec - Mapplethorpe - Helmut Newton - Arthur Jafa - Felix Gonzales-Torres - Boros - Sterling Ruby - Mamma Anderson - Scarpa - Stefan Diez - Imi Knoebel - Mies Van Der Rohe