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Dario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens by Dario Robleto (2012, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDes Moines Art Center

ISBN-101879003619

ISBN-139781879003613

eBay Product ID (ePID)112132458

Product Key Features

Book TitleDario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicConceptual, Individual Artists / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorDario Robleto

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisSurvival Does Not Lie in the Heavens looks at Dario Robleto's ingenious adaptations of nineteenth-century folk traditions to explore mortality and memorialization. Robleto's sculptural objects use the model of the folksy mantelpiece keepsake--the elaborately framed photograph, the trophy, commemorative embroidery--and counter their traditionally saccharine, sentimental appeal with brilliant conceptual gestures. Thus, paper pulped from soldier's letters home (from various wars) are repurposed to create a keepsake of silk, goldleaf and seashells; a homeopathic treatment for "Human Longing" includes medicine made from a ground-up recording of Sylvia Plath; and a framed memorial to Marie Louise Meilleur, who died at the aged of 117, includes hair lockets made of stretched audiotape recordings of other supercentarians. Throughout these works, Robleto's concern is with the human management of death through objects, affirming that the task of survival takes place here on earth.

Text byOreskes, Naomi, Vicario, Gilbert, White, Michelle