Venerable American Conceptualist Elaine Sturtevant has built a 40-year career with her copies of other artists' work. Fittingly, this clothbound artist's book with marbled paper draws upon Jorge Luis Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote , an account--which indistinguishably blurs fact and fiction--of a translator who "re-creates" Cervantes' classic novel.
Ausstellungskatalog anlässlich der Verleihung des Kurt-Schwitters-Preises der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung an Sturtevant im Jahr 2013 mit Präsentation Ihrer im Sprengel Museum Hannover gezeigten, befahrbaren großen Installation „The House of Horrors“
Since her first New York exhibition in 1965, when she showed copies of Warhol's flowers, John's flags, Oldenburg's soft sculptures, and a Rosenquist drawing, Elaine Sturtevant has made a sophisticated play of originality, authorship, and signature. Conceived by the artist herself, Shifting Mental Structures includes recent works.