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This book is published on the occasion of Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn (23 May – 20 October 2019), at the Serpentine Galleries, the first institutional exhibition of the artist’s work. Throughout her career, Hurtado has created an extensive body of paintings, drawings and prints that bear witness to a dedicated and intense engagement with the world around her. This is the first comprehensive and fully-illustrated publication on the artist’s practice, which follows the trajectory of her work through a selection of newly-commissioned texts and images of all works in the exhibition. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer has written a contextual survey of the artist’s career and its unique course; artist Andrea Bowers has written a text on ‘The Equanimity of Luchita Hurtado’; Hurtado’s son, artist Matt Mullican, has written a series of short vignettes about his mother, whilst Barbara Stauffacher Solomon has provided a written response to an archival photograph, attesting to a lifelong friendship with Hurtado that has transcended their respective artistic practices. The book features a new interview between Hurtado and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an extensive timeline on the artist’s life collated by Marie Heilich.

 

Authors

Andrea Bowers

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Marie Heilich

Matt Mullican

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

 

Editors

Rebecca Lewin

Joseph Constable

with Melissa Larner

 

Design

Mark El-khatib

 

Format

Portrait

 

Dimensions

20 x 25 cm


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Luchita Hurtado

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Luchita Hurtado (b. 1920 in Maiquetía, Venezuela) dedicated over eighty years of her extensive oeuvre to the investigation of universality and transcendence. Throughout her career, Luchita Hurtado has created an extensive body of paintings, drawings and prints that bear witness to a dedicated and intense engagement with the world around her. I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn was her first solo exhibition in a public institution and follows the trajectory of her practice, from her earliest surviving work of the late 1930s, through early experiments with abstraction in the 1940s and 50s, to later works that foreground the body as their starting point. The plurality of styles and techniques that mark Hurtado’s 80 years of working speak to the geographies and events that have shaped her life. Born in 1920 in Maiquetía, Venezuela, she emigrated to the United States in 1928 and later travelled extensively in Mexico, before settling in Santa Monica, California, in 1951, where she has resided ever since.

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