{"product_id":"brendan-fernandes-re-form-hardcover","title":"Brendan Fernandes: Re\/Form - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrendan Fernandes\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eAlhena Katsof\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJuliet Bellow\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes' acclaimed performance-based installations deconstructing ballet and modern dance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an ambitious new monograph, Kenyan-born, Chicago-based Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979) chronicles his two most recent exhibitions, \u003ci\u003eContract and Release\u003c\/i\u003e at the Noguchi Museum (2019) and \u003ci\u003eMaster and Form\u003c\/i\u003e commissioned by the Graham Foundation for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. These performance-based installations feature live dancers interacting with Noguchi's colorful, unstable sculptures and a collection of architectural steel cages resembling ballet barres. The objects in both exhibitions act as training devices and physical constraints, both aiding and encumbering the dancers, and encouraging poses that test their endurance in overt displays of physical tension and self-control. The work engages with notions of discipline and mastery, pain and pleasure, and aims to disrupt and consolidate ballet and modern dance traditions. Alongside documentation of the performances, this book includes insight into Fernandes' work with texts by Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrik Folkerts and Dakin Hart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 13 x 9.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767374643488,"sku":"9788857245591","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16047fba9a464afbbdf4f4853df28403.webp?v=1780310149","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/brendan-fernandes-re-form-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}