Value and Transformation of Corals. Christine and Margaret Wertheim

Rezensionen / Stimmen

Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals asks how we can allow something once seen from space to suffer beneath a storm we've let loose on our planet? * Flaunt * Celebrating the vibrancy of the oceans, this book explores the audacious soft sculptures of the Wertheim sisters. [Created] with stunning accuracy and expressiveness... * American Craft * Exceptionally informative in organization and presentation, "Value and Transformation of Corals" is an extraordinary, memorable, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Art, Needlecraft, and Artist Monograph collections. -- James Cox * Midwest Book Review * Collaborative, figurative, material, conceptual, artistic, scientific, feminist and playful, the Crochet Coral Reef alerts us to the reality that life on Earth is nothing if not entangled. * e-flux * The Crochet Coral Reef [...] has its utopian quality above all in the fact that a positive project emerges from joint work. It shows the beauty and the power of collective action. Just as a real coral reef is not created by a single unit, but is a combination of thousands of small contributions, so the crocheted coral reef is the product of many hands, many ideas and infinite hours of work. -- Ann-Katrin Gunzel * Kunstforum International * What comes through from the book is the sheer magnitude of what the artists are doing. It is such an ambitious project, with roots in so many fields, and involving so much energy, effort and collaboration. I'm totally awestruck. -- Manil Suri * Professor of Mathematics and author of The Age of Shiva * The sculptures are like force-fields drawing you into their orbit, catalysts for a network of social relations that mimic a reef's ... Gorgeous, absurd and socially productive, these are rare works of art -- Christopher Knight * Los Angeles Times *