Iris Häussler : the Sophie La Rosière project / edited by Philip Monk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monk, Philip, 1950- editor.

York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery, issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Häussler, Iris, 1962---Exhibitions.

Häussler, Iris.

Häussler, Iris, 1962-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Sophie La Rosière project

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Art Gallery of York University, 2018.

Summary:

"Since 2009, Iris Häussler has produced the complete oeuvre of unknown French painter Sophie la Rosière who died in 1948. In fact, Häussler has created an artistic persona--a heteronym--through which to channel this fictitious artist's secrets while, at the same time, fabricating a biography for her and an elaborate back story of a hidden erotic liaison that intersects, nonetheless, with real people, historical events, and actual artistic movements. The paintings, though, are merely a kernel within the larger shell of La Rosière's life circumstances, which includes the recreation of her studio, its products and detritus, and also the elements of a forensic investigation that tries to answer the questions, after the paintings' discovery, of why these paintings were abandoned, why they were concealed by a layer of black encaustic, and, ultimately, what secrets they conceal? Following the spirit of the overall project, this book includes a catalogue raisonné of all Sophie la Rosière's 293 works, forensic evidence, expert analyses, and official reports."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction / by Philip Monk

Chronology

Discovery / by Rui Mateus Amaral

X-Rays

House and studio

Vanité disparue = Vanished vanity / by Gérard Audinet

Catalogue raisonné

A letter to Sophie La Rosière / by Iris Häussler

Part II. Voiler de noir...et alors? = Veiled in black...and then? / by Yan Pélissier

À la recherche du (petit) monde de Sophie La Rosière / by Catherine Sicot

Intrapsychic secrets / by Philip Monk

Installations; Art Gallery of York University; Scrap metal; Daniel Faria Gallery.

Notes:

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University from September 14 to December 11, 2016.

Contains:

Häussler, Iris, 1962- Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

9780921972730

0921972733

OCLC:

1035215165