
Barbara Anna Husar
Hirtin
2012
48 pages, broché sous jaquette peinte à la main par l'artiste
Barbara Anna Husar, au travers de tampons et de photographies, parle de son expérience mystique et artistique dans le désert du Sinaï. Livre accompagné d'une œuvre originale : couverture de survie, photographie et pilule (œuvre unique).
Tirage : 275 exemplaires
Format : 125 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-2-916067-71-1
Prix : 200 euros / Disponible également : version de librairie, sans œuvre, au prix de 12 euros
How can one explain Barbara Anna Husar’s, an Austrian artist of 36 years of age, fascination for deserts, sheperdesses, goats and their umbilical cords ? In Hirtin, she explains, in an unusual way, her life in the Sinaï where she regularly goes since the last 20 years, and meets the flock caretakers, bedouin women in black. Is it about, as the great adventurers Alexandra David-Néel or Isabelle Eberhart, an ethnologic, sociologic, zoologic or shamanic quest ? Herself owner of a little livestock, left to the Bedouin’s care, she withdraws her goat’s umbilical cords, which she considers as communication vectors, in order to « connect herself to the universe ». Through her performances, films, photos, sculptures, paintings and drawing, Barbara Anna Husar, a thrilling personnality of the Vienna artistic scene, is continually transmiting the energy of life.