Ausstellung, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1. Juni - 12. Oktober 2008
This exhibition catalogue features Ayse Erkmen, Ceal Floyer and David Lamelas. Erkmen's installations interpret socially and historically implicit architecture, while Floyer's light projections, videos, photographs and sculptures seem to lack underlying themes. Since the 60s, Lamelas has explored the hybrid character of the exhibition venue."
New works and never-before-seen archival documents from the pioneering Argentinian conceptual artist. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, the works featured in Life as Activity: David Lamelas invite viewers to move through space and time by identifying with images of celebrity. This new collection brings together Lamelas's experiments in a wide variety of media--including sculpture, film, photography, and video--to emphasize the constructed nature of narrative and identity. Made by this influential conceptual artist in Argentina, Europe, and the United States between 1966 and 2020, the thirteen projects featured in this book demonstrate the agile and inventive ways Lamelas has played with form and medium. Life as Activity: David Lamelas includes full-color illustrations of new works by the artist and never-before-seen documents from his personal archives.