Kimsooja. To breathe-Respirare

Kimsooja is a Korean artist who lives in New York but has maintained a very close relationship with her native country. She's acquired fame and recognition thanks to her huge Bottari (bundles of cloth), traditional colorful bedcovers which, in Korea, are given to married couples as a good omen, and which are used as a bundle of things that are essential during a journey. The artist was awarded numerous prizes and international acknowledgments, and her artistic research is constantly improving. The book represents the second stage of cooperation between the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Teatro La Fenice of Venice (the first one was Grazia Toderi, published by Charta in 2004), and with Francesca Pasini as the curator. The Venetian project is a silent vision on the abstraction created from light and color, to which sound is added: the artist's breathing- in a rhythmic crescendo-creates a perception of space and time that amalgamates with the theatre. The book includes essays on the artist, published last decade by the most important historians and art critics as well as a CD containing the screening of her last video on La Fenice's curtain.