Jack Leirner in conversation with / en conversación con Adele Nelson

Publication Year: 2011
Pages: 200 pages
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN: 978-0-9823544-4-5
Dimensions: 15,5 × 23,5 cm
Language: English, Spanish


This third publication in the Fundacion Cisneros' "Conversaciones"/"Conversations" series puts Brazilian conceptual artist Jac Leirner in dialogue with art historian Adele Nelson. Leirner (born 1961) emerged in the early 1990s at the forefront of a new, transnational generation of artists looking to the art of the 1960s and 1970s as a point of departure. Leirner's meticulously constructed works carve out a place for commonplace objects, from cigarette packs and plastic shopping bags to cutlery and currency. In this, the first in-depth study of Leirner's creative process, Nelson interviews the artist about more than two decades of production.