When trash becomes art : TRASH rubbish mongo / Lea Vergine

Object Details

Author

Vergine, Lea

Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

"This book is based on the exhibition Trash. Quando i rifiuti diventano arte, held at MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, in 1997"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Contents

Illustrated chronology of the use of trash / edited by Rosella Ghezzi

Summary

"Why have artists employed - and why do they continue to employ - trash? Trash that has been incorporated, photographed, "treated", emphasised, camouflaged or "corrected", but which still remains trash, that is, something that belongs in a garbage can or a dump. We ourselves have been discarded or rejected by other human beings; more or less on a daily basis, we are forced to recover, scrape together and reassemble fragments of ourselves." "As we look at Alberto Burri's used sacks or the details of corpses photographed in the morgue by Andres Serrano, we might recall the voice of Cathy Berberian, capable of blending fine music with "pop" music; we might listen to a composition by Paolo Castaldi; we might reread certain lists by Bohumil Hrabal or certain "frisbees" by Giulia Niccolai; we might think back to certain film sequences by Abel Ferrara or other vocal collages by Meredith Monk ... and, as we do, we might realise that twentieth-century culture is packed with recovered material, reuses and contaminations, shreds, fragments, discards and "noise"."--Jacket.

2007

Type

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Physical description

179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Trash art

Refuse and refuse disposal in art

Record ID

siris_sil_1043167

Metadata Usage (text)

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