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Apr 23, 2015 · Suite Vénitienne was the resulting book, first published in 1979 and re-released this month in collaboration with Siglio. Calle documents her attempts to follow her subject. She phoned hundreds of hotels, even visited the police station, to find out where he was staying, and persuaded a woman who lived opposite to let her photograph him from ...
- Harriet Baker
Mar 24, 2015 · Calle developed this sort of investigatory aesthetic with her first book “Suite Vénitienne” (Siglio: 96 pp., $34.95), which operates (on the surface, anyway) as something of a simple diary: The...
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Suite Vénitienne (1979) is amongst Calle’s seminal works, establishing her as one of the most eminent conceptual artists in the world. Published nearly 40 years ago, as a collection of photographs and text, Suite Vénitienne acts an intersection between visual art and literature: an immersive, poignant and interdisciplinary exploration of ...
Jul 16, 2015 · If the site of following is the site of performance, then Suite Vénitienne might be a document of the act, which happened under clandestine circumstances in Venice in 1980. However, this considerately designed book is a work in itself. It is a re-enlivened iteration of Calle’s two week carrying-out.
May 1, 2017 · However, the most recent book I bought is older, dating from 1988 (in its English language incarnation), Suite Vénitienne/Please Follow Me. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me, I ended up hunting for the original 1988 paperback instead of the 2015 reissue. It might have been just the pleasure of the hunt.
Jul 20, 2015 · If the site of following is the site of performance, then Suite Vénitienne might be a document of the act, which happened under clandestine circumstances in Venice in 1980. However, this considerately designed book is a work in itself. It is a re-enlivened iteration of Calle’s two week carrying-out.
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Nov 17, 2021 · The temptation of speculation is even more seductive in another of Calle’s projects from the same time, “Suite Vénitienne,” in which she stalked a man she barely knew around Venice, taking ...
