Dream on baby : artists and their childhood memories / Gesine Borcherdt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borcherdt, Gesine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists.

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2024]

Summary:

Childhood never lets go of anyone. For many artists, it was the trigger for making art in the first place, and still is what drives them today. For 'Dream On Baby', Gesine Borcherdt asked 33 artists, including Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovi?, Lynda Benglis, Vaginal Davis, Marcel Dzama, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Gregor Schneider, and Jordan Wolfson, about their memories of childhood. The result is an anthology of deeply personal, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking and always surprising stories. Accompanied by never-before-seen childhood photographs and drawings, this book sheds new light on what it means to make art.

Childhood never lets go of anyone. For many artists, it was the trigger for making art in the first place, and still is what drives them today. For 'Dream On Baby', Gesine Borcherdt asked 33 artists, including Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovi?, Lynda Benglis, Vaginal Davis, Marcel Dzama, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Gregor Schneider, and Jordan Wolfson, about their memories of childhood. The result is an anthology of deeply personal, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking and always surprising stories. Accompanied by never-before-seen childhood photographs and drawings, this book sheds new light on what it means to make art.00GESINE BORCHERDT (*1976, Braunschweig) is a Berlin-based curator, art critic and author for Art Review, Ursula, Welt am Sonntag, ART, and AD Germany. Recent exhibitions include Dream Baby Dream (2020) revolving around childhood fantasies and traumas, and Home Is Where You?re Happy (2023) at Haus Mödrath in Kerpen, Germany.

Contents:

Foreword

Artists. Marina Abramović

Ai Weiwei

Jean-Marie Appriou

Kader Attia

Lynda Benglis

Richard Billingham

Julius von Bismarck

Berlinde De Bruyckere

King Cobra (originally documented as Doreen Lynette Garner)

Vaginal Davis

Marcel Dzama

VALIE EXPORT

Abdulnasser Gharem

Mona Hatoum

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Jeff Koons

Ronny Lischinski

Liu Ye

Mike Nelson

Ernesto Neto

Tony Oursler

Jon Rafman

Mary-Audrey Ramirez

Yehudit Sasportas

Gregor Schneider

Laurie Simmons

Lily van der Stokker

Ryan Trecartin

Jean-Luc Verna

Raphaela Vogel

Andro Wekua

Jordan Wolfson

Wong Ping

ISBN:

9783775756822

3775756825

OCLC:

1429277802