JOURNEY by Micheline Klagsbrun
By (author): Micheline Klagsbrun
Title: JOURNEY
Subtitle: REFLECTIONS ON TRANSFORMATION + RESILIENCE
Blurb:
This book traces a journey through the evolving phases of Micheline Klagsbrun’s work, illuminating how each phase transforms into the next.
Inspired by the “seamless song” of Ovid, whose Metamorphoses served as an early influence, Klagsbrun’s initial work explores the fluid boundaries between animate and inanimate, human and natural, earthly and superhuman realms. Reimagined mythological narratives of passion, punishment, desire and despair gradually give way to a more abstract rendering of transformation itself. Narrative becomes submerged within fluid and translucent color and form, capturing the instability and motion inherent in change.
These paintings eventually move beyond the wall, evolving into three-dimensional sculptures permeated with light. Floating in space, weightless and incandescent, they mark a pivotal shift from surface to volume, from image to presence. They take the form of vessels, expressing perilous journeys into the unknown, evoking the resilience of refugees and migrants across the world, as well as inward voyages of the soul. Klagsbrun’s practice expands to include the precious possessions and memories that individuals carry with them, along with the documents that preserve history and identity. These elements anchor personal experience within a broader human narrative.
Not a traditional catalogue, this book is a poetic and flowing illumination of a continuing journey.
Contributing writers include Dorothy Kosinski, Director Emerita of the Phillips Collection, Norman Kleeblatt, former Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum NYC, and Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Professor of Art History, UMd and the Smithsonian.
ISBN: 978-87-7620-720-5
Book language: English
Publishing house: Snap Collective
Website: www.snap-collective.com
Editorial Assistant: Anna Romanovici
Designer: Yana Geruk
In collaboration with: Rachel Vancelette
Photography credit: Gregory Staley Photography.
Published on: in production
Category: Art
Keywords: Journey, transformation, resilience, mixed-media art, fine art, light, sculpture, works on paper