MEDALLA, David; MOSHAYEDI, Aram (ed.)
David Medalla. In Conversation with the Cosmos

From the Lava Machine and the Cloud Canyons to the Artists’ Liberation Front and the Mondrian Fan Club… David Medalla at his best in this new book – the catalogue of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum, LA, focusing on Medalla’s drawings and works on paper.

David Medalla. In Conversation with the Cosmos explores the late Filipino artist’s prolific career from the mid-1950s to the late 2010s. The book tracks and contextualizes Medalla’s pioneering involvement in artistic movements—from kinetic art to performance and participatory art—while providing insight into more intimate forms of exchange between contemporaries and friends to underscore the interpersonal narratives that often tend to evade art history. In anticipation of a major retrospective exhibition of Medalla’s art at the Hammer Museum, this volume charts the artist’s persistent presence that has sometimes been omitted from the histories of art movements in which he played a significant role. [publishers’ note]

With texts by Aram Moshayedi, Magalí Arriola, Nyah Ginwright, CJ Salapare.

Published by Hammer Museum / Delmonico Books, 2024
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