Bust 2017 / Flora 2017

57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2017

Swiss Pavilion

Curator: Philip Kaiser

Artists: Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler

Official photography by Ugo Carmeni

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| PROHELVETIA | HUBBARDBIRCHLER |

Bust 2017 - Flora Mayo and Alberto Giacometti, with the bust she made of him, circa 1927. Photographer unknown. Original photograph belonging to Flora Mayo, kept under her mattress, lost. Film negative missing. Reproduction from only known duplicate print, archive of Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur. Original clay bust portrait of Alberto Giacometti by Flora Mayo, lost. Reconstructed and cast in brass.

Framed silver gelatin print, 34 5/8 x 28 3/8in, Brass sculpture with concrete base, 60 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 81 in.

Flora 2017 - Synchronized double-sided Film Installation. with shared Soundtrack, 30 min, Loop.