Rhinoceros : luxury's fragile frontier / exhibition curator: Catherine Kovesi ; translators: Yi-ying Chen, Hongyue Liao, Yi-chun Shih and Beatrice Venturin
- Bib ID:
- 7858731
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Catherine Kovesi, curator, author
- Description:
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- [Carlton, Victoria] : Emporium, [2018]
- 100 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 21 x 22 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646993737 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Rhinoceros: Luxury's Fragile Frontier', held in the Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, 24 November to 21 December 2018. Together, the exhibitors, Venetian sculptor Gigi Bon, Taiwanese sculptor Shih Li-Jen, Australian wildlife campaigner Lynn Johnson, and Canadian poet Ronna Bloom, examine the surprising yet deeply entwined history and current predicament of the world's most ancient mammal - the rhino - and the world's most beautiful city - Venice. The horn of the rhino, made of intrinsically worthless keratin, has become one of the world's most costly luxury objects; an unlikely symbol of status and prestige in a primarily Asian market. Every eight hours a rhinoceros is killed to satisfy demand. The rhinoceros now faces the very real danger of extinction. The city of Venice is overwhelmed each year by a mass tourist market of 30 million people in a city with a population of barely 54,000. The effects on the delicately balanced eco systems of the lagoon and of the city have reached a critical level. This exhibition catalogue highlights the ways in which Venice and the Rhinoceros have become victims of their desirability and objectification as luxury objects - both consumed without discrimination by an ever-expanding consumer class.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Neil Stonell
- Gracious Hospitable City / Ronna Bloom
- Catherine Kovesi
- Rhinoceros: Luxury's Fragile Frontier / by Catherine Kovesi
- Between Fur an Skin / Ronna Bloom
- Gigi Bon: Portrait of the Artist / by Roberta Hurstel
- Gigi Bon The Rhino and the Mirabilia, and her Vision of Venice as a Rhino / by Martine Chantal Fantuzzi
- Gigi Bon Exhibitions
- Ulysses: The Double, the Cosmic and the Eternal
- MiraRhino in Mirabilia
- Artemisia, the Impetuous Femininity of Art
- RhinoPazzo is the Rebel Prisoner
- Carosello Rhino
- Angeli Rhino
- Omaggio a Longhi (Homage to Longhi)
- The Night the Rhinos Came / Ronna Bloom
- Shih Li-Jen / by Sabrina Ardizzoni
- Shih Li-Jen - Mr Rhino / by Sabrina Ardizzoni
- Shih Li-Jen Exhibitions
- No Trade - No Harm
- Rhinos in Love (Yuan Bao)
- Harley King Kong
- Rhino Vessel (Female) and Rhino Vessel (Male)
- Salve / Ronna Bloom
- Lyn Johnson
- Extinction: The Vulgarity of Desire, Video
- Extinction: The Vulgarity of Desire / Lyn Johnson
- What I Dropped into the Canal / Ronna Bloom
- Ronna Bloom
- List of Works
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
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- Parallel text in English, Italian and Chinese.
- NLApp80360
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Stonell, Neil, writer of foreword
- Bloom, Ronna, author
- Hurstel, Roberta, author
- Fantuzzi, Martine Chantal, author
- Ardizzoni, Sabrina, author
- Johnson, Lyn, author, artist
- Bon, Gigi, artist
- Li-Jen, Shih, artist
- Chen, Yi-ying, translator
- Liao, Hongyue, translator
- Shih, Yi-chun, translator
- Venturin, Beatrice, translator
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2018
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