The Proposal
ed. by Nikolaus Hirsch, Carin Kuoni, Hesse McGraw, Markus Miessen ; contr. by Leonardo Díaz Borioli, Nikolaus Hirsch, David Kim …[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Leonardo Díaz Borioli, Nikolaus Hirsch, David Kim, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Daniel McClean, Hesse McGraw, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ines Weizman
- Editor(s)
- Nikolaus Hirsch, Carin Kuoni, Hesse McGraw, Markus Miessen
- Publication, year
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016
- Scope
- 202 Pages, illustrated, 15 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956791888
This book focusses on Jill Magid’s “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Luis Barragán (1902–1988). The archive of Barragán was split in two after his death—the personal archive is kept in his home in Mexico, while his professional archive was purchased in 1995 by Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, inaccessible to the public. With The Proposal Magid attempts to bring together Barragán’s professional and personal archives by probing the architect’s official and private selves, and the interests of various individuals and governmental and corporate entities who have become the archives’ guardians. Magid, with permission of the Barragán family, commissioned a small amount of Barragán’s cremated remains to be transformed into a diamond. The stone, set in a gold ring, was offered to Federica Zanco in exchange for the return of the professional archive to Mexico. Magid’s artwork directly engages the intersections of the psychological and the judicial, national identity and repatriation, international property rights and copyright law, authorship and ownership, the human body and the body of work.
- Person as subject
- Jill Magid
- Location
- Cabinet 5 - 4: Kunstenaars
