Edited with text by Frauke V. Josenhans. Foreword and interview with Sheila Hicks by Enrico Martignoni.
A unique book embracing the verticality of Sheila Hicks’ work
For decades, Sheila Hicks has engaged with color, texture and verticality, using textiles as her medium of choice. Her unique approach is informed by her interest in architecture, space, historical weaving traditions and innovations in fiber technology. This new bilingual publication (English and French) focuses on her cascading multicolored columns. Building on her earlier work and occupation with verticality, the columns have extended to new and spectacular settings, notably outdoors, refusing any traditional limitations, adapting to various environments, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to the rocky hills of the French countryside and medieval castles. Hicks’ work has always been published in innovative formats, a result of her creative collaborations with designers. The book reflects the verticality that is crucial to Hicks’ towering fiber structures. It features stunning reproductions of the columns created by the artist over the last 10 years. The selection culminates in Hicks’ most recent installation, Vers des horizons inconnus in front of the Institut de France during Paris + in 2023. Radical Vertical Inquiries is an eye-popping, design-forward companion to Hicks’ work that shines on its own. Sheila Hicks was born in Nebraska in 1934 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1964. Her engagement with different cultures enables her to create and exhibit artworks, ranging from the miniature to the monumental, that have been exhibited at museums and other institutions around the world. Among her numerous awards are: U.S. State Department Medal of Arts (2023); Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, France (2022); Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Yale University (2019).
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At 90, Nebraska-born, Paris-based textile artist and sculptor Sheila Hicks is a living legend and an international treasure. Her new book, Radical Vertical Inquiries—fittingly sized at 5.5 x 12-inches—is at last on American shores, published by DelMonico Books and Galerie Frank Elbaz. Featured image is “Gabriel Reaching for Heaven” in the 2022 Hepworth Wakefield exhibition, Off Grid. “At The Hepworth the exhibition spills out into the garden,” Hicks is quoted. “I knew it was going to be a challenge: with architecture you can make friends, accommodate and negotiate, but in the garden, nature is going to do its own thing and take over no matter what. You think you can speak to flowers in a friendly way, but whatever you’re going to introduce into their domain, nature will confront. And so I was reluctant, but in the end I proposed a 5-meter-tall [16-foot-tall] tower that shoots upwards. . . . But you could see it out of one of the windows, you go to one of the corners and you say, ‘How did that get out there, what in the world is that? Who trucked this strange thing in, this tower, and put it in the garden?’” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 5.5 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $62 GBP £40.00 ISBN: 9781636811499 PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books/galerie frank elbaz AVAILABLE: 10/22/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by DelMonico Books/galerie frank elbaz. Edited with text by Frauke V. Josenhans. Foreword and interview with Sheila Hicks by Enrico Martignoni.
A unique book embracing the verticality of Sheila Hicks’ work
For decades, Sheila Hicks has engaged with color, texture and verticality, using textiles as her medium of choice. Her unique approach is informed by her interest in architecture, space, historical weaving traditions and innovations in fiber technology. This new bilingual publication (English and French) focuses on her cascading multicolored columns. Building on her earlier work and occupation with verticality, the columns have extended to new and spectacular settings, notably outdoors, refusing any traditional limitations, adapting to various environments, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to the rocky hills of the French countryside and medieval castles.
Hicks’ work has always been published in innovative formats, a result of her creative collaborations with designers. The book reflects the verticality that is crucial to Hicks’ towering fiber structures. It features stunning reproductions of the columns created by the artist over the last 10 years. The selection culminates in Hicks’ most recent installation, Vers des horizons inconnus in front of the Institut de France during Paris + in 2023. Radical Vertical Inquiries is an eye-popping, design-forward companion to Hicks’ work that shines on its own.
Sheila Hicks was born in Nebraska in 1934 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1964. Her engagement with different cultures enables her to create and exhibit artworks, ranging from the miniature to the monumental, that have been exhibited at museums and other institutions around the world. Among her numerous awards are: U.S. State Department Medal of Arts (2023); Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, France (2022); Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Yale University (2019).
