Sheila Hicks' recent monumental and architectural-based projects.
Published as a sequel to
Sheila Hicks: Apprentissages (2017), this new book by the artist gathers recent monumental and architectural-based projects. It emphasizes Hicks' relationship to the sites in which she intervenes and her way of playing with scale and site-specificity. Among the outdoor and indoor projects featured in the publication are
Foray into Chromatic Zones (Hayward Gallery, London, 2015);
Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands (57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017); and
Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly. Escape from Gravity (High Line, New York, 2017–18).
Sheila Hicks: A Matter of Scale places a particular focus on Lifelines, Hicks' recent retrospective held at the Centre Pompidou, which is treated here as a case study for the artist's broader practice.
Stemming from the long tradition of modern art which links abstraction to multiple disciplines, the American artist Sheila Hicks (born 1934, Hastings, USA, based in Paris since 1964) revisits traditional artisanal
textile, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture with her woven and textile work. After studying under
Josef Albers at Yale, she started working with fibers during a journey in South America from 1958 to 1959, where she investigated the artisanal fabrics of Colombia, Chile, Peru and Bolivia; it then became her main medium. Sheila Hicks views her work, nourished by her travels and the cultures she has studied, as a process which results in the viewer interacting with the work she creates as well as the architecture it inhabits.
Edited by Clément Dirié.
Texts by Clément Dirié, Sheila Hicks, Jasmin Oezcebi.
2025 (publication expected by 4th quarter)
English edition
10,5 x 16,5 cm (softcover)
ISBN : 978-3-03764-533-8
EAN : 9783037645338
forthcoming
