Conversaciones con artistas contemporáneos

by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alan Pauls (Editor, Translator)

Las veinte entrevistas que compila este libro son sólo la punta del inmenso iceberg oral que Hans Ulrich Obrist viene recopilando desde mediados de los años 80, cuando descubrió que nada le interesaba más que hablar con artistas. De esa pasión relacional, casi más que de cualquier devoción por un objeto llamado “obra de arte”, nace sin duda el Obrist curador estrella que desde principios de los 90 hasta hoy lleva montadas más de 150 exposiciones en todo el mundo, ha estampado su firma en cientos de catálogos y revistas especializadas de arte y desde hace un par de años es codirector de exhibiciones y programas y director de proyectos internacionales de la Serpentine Gallery de Londres. La curadoría, en el caso de Obrist, quizá no sea sino la continuación de la conversación por otros medios, y el tramado de encuentros entre obras, prácticas, experiencias y artistas una especie de versión 3D, a escala global, de la verdadera escena en la que Obrist parece cristalizar la experiencia del arte contemporáneo: la escena de la interlocución.

Alan Pauls

380 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this, he was Curator of the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris from 2000 to 2006, as well as curator of Museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000. Obrist has co-curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991: including 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; and Indian Highway, 2008-2011.
Obrist is the editor of a series of conversation books published by Walther Koenig. He has also edited the writings of Gerhard Richter, Gilbert & George and Louise Bourgeois. He has contributed to over 200 book projects, his recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop, The future will be…with M/M (Paris), Interview with Hans-Peter Feldmann, and Ai Wei Wei Speaks, along with two volumes of his selected interviews (Interviews: Vol. 1 & 2). The Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in Stuttgart in 2005. The first in the Serpentine series, the Interview Marathon in 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24 hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by the Experiment Marathon, conceived by Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson in 2007, the Manifesto Marathon in 2008, the Poetry Marathon in 2009, Map Marathon in 2010, and the Garden Marathon in 2011.
In 2009, Obrist was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In March 2011, he was awarded the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence.