Ongoing collaboration with artist and collector Thilo Hoffmann for the Curatorial Project Management of the upcoming publication of his series Artist Portraits.
With “FIFTY ONE (SELF) PORTRAITS” Thilo Hoffmann invited contemporary artists to create a portraits of themselves. “You at your location, in your time and world. Compose your own PORTRAIT.” These were the only directions given to the artists who were open to working with the Swiss based multimedia orchestrator.
Only one parameter was added to the work: The person in the portrait is half the size of the picture. The setting that each artist chose is thus gaining momentum, giving the viewer a glimpse into the portrayee’s world.
Hoffmann dedicated 16 years to assembling “ FIFTY ONE (SELF) PORTRAITS”, and approached artists, traveled all around the world to meet with them and take their portraits. The images are accompanied by texts narrating the depicted scenes and written by authors chosen by the artists or by the artists themselves.
The result is not only a publication and an exhibition, it is also a grand piece of art in itself.
List of the artists featured in the book:
Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Bismuth, Sophie Calle, Olaf Breuning, Lawrence Weiner, Gregory Green, Mary Heilmann, Susan Hiller, Peter Joseph, Zilla Leutenegger, Ingeborg Lüscher, Mike Nelson, Tony Oursler, Philip Pearlstein, Ben Vautier, Roman Signer, Annelies Strba, Richard Wentworth, Huma Bhabha, Shannon Plumb, Silvie Defraoui, Lindsay Seers, Mona Hatoum, John Armleder, Christian Jankowski, Cerith Wyn Evans, Diego Perrone, Adrian Schiess, Ursula Hodel, Ilona Ruegg, Una Szeemann, Karin Sander, Markus Weiss, Clarina Bezzola, Mario Airo, Laurie Anderson, Ursula Rydingsvard, Mélanie Matranga, Nic Hess, Niele Toroni, Not Vital, Gianni Motti, Severin Müller, Willie Doherty, Ulla von Brandenburg, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzinger, Alicia Velazquez.