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\u2018If I write it all, search and find it all, it\u2019s maybe to try to understand what happened, everything is ultimately bound, art and life, children, loves, errors, joys, hopes\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Nicola L.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicola L.: Life and Art<\/i> is the first comprehensive monograph about the pioneering artist Nicola L. (1932-2018), whose wide-ranging work\u2014impossible to categorise\u2014challenged ideas about identity, gender, and the body long before such questions were de rigueur<\/i>. Born in Morocco to French parents, she spent her formative years in Paris attending the Beaux-Arts, only to burn most of her paintings in 1965 and move towards formats that engaged people more directly: wall-mounted canvases that could be worn as costumes, sculptures that doubled as seats, coats designed for many people to wear at once, or films about radical political figures. Far from settling in a time and place, she travelled the world, finding physical and artistic homes in the free-spirited community of Ibiza, in countercultural New York, and even, briefly, in a Lebanese jail.<\/span><\/p>\n

The art Nicola made stemmed from the life she lived\u2014there were no boundaries between the two. This book follows the same logic, intertwining both throughout its 304 pages: on one hand, a comprehensive catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of her artworks; on the other, a fanzine of Nicola\u2019s never-seen-before memoirs, in which she narrates her incredible life, punctuated with anecdotes involving Jean-Paul Sartre, Salvador Dal\u00ed, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Caetano Veloso, Andy Warhol, Bad Brains, and Carolee Schneemann. Her writing is complemented by the personal stories of those who knew her and the commentary of those who have connected with her work: Christophe and David Lanzenberg (her sons), Gary Indiana (writer and longtime friend), Marta Minuj\u00edn (artist and longtime friend), Pierre Restany (late critic and mentor), H.R. (Bad Brains frontman and film subject), Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib, and Myriam Ben Salah (curators), among many others. Edited by Hannah Martin and Omar Sosa, and made with the support of Alison Jacques, London and the Nicola L. Collection and Archive, this book brings together original images of the work, archival photographs, essays, interviews, and journals\u2014in sum, all the pieces of Nicola\u2019s puzzle. <\/span><\/p>\n

Release date: April 4 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Apartamento Publishing S.L.
\nApril 2023
\nFirst edition
\nDimensions: 220 x 290mm
\nPages: 304
\nBinding: puffy hardcover
\nISBN: 978-84-09-47436-3<\/p>\n

Shipping method: DHL\/UPS courier service with tracking
\nDelivery time: 2-4 days from the shipping confirmation<\/p>\n

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