Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler

Author: Cornelia Gockel, Gregory Volk, Ingvild Goetz, Susanne Touw, Alexander Birchler, Maeve Connolly and Christina Végh

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Catalog of an exhibition held at Ballroom Marfa, February 28-October 26, 2014; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, December 5, 2014-May 4, 2015; Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, May 31-September 5, 2015.

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The work originally conceived by the artist couple Hubbard / Birchler for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale re-constructs the life story of the American artist Flora Mayo. Mayo had a romantic relationship in the 1920s with the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. While he is now one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, her work was de-stroyed, and her life forgotten. Hubbard / Birchler reanimate Mayo's compelling biography from a feminist perspective, combining reconstruction and documentation to create a multilayered form of narrative. The catalogue, produced for the current exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz, elucidates the research the artists engaged in and documents the installa-tion in an impressive manner

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The artists TERESA HUBBARD (1965, Dublin, Ireland) and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER (1962, Baden, Switzerland) are based in Austin, Texas, and Ber-lin and have been working together since 1990. Their installations include sculpture, photography, and film. They first exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1999.

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Originally conceived by the Austin-based Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennial, Flora reconstructs the life story of the American artist Flora Mayo, who in the 1920s had a romantic relationship with the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. While Giacometti is now one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, Mayo has vanished from history, her work destroyed and her life forgotten. In Flora , Hubbard / Birchler reanimate Mayo's gripping biography from a feminist perspective, linking reconstruction and documentation to form a multi-layered type of narrative. The catalog, produced for an exhibition at the Bayerische Akademie der Sch