Feature on Sophie Taeuber-Arp on Arte TV
Broadcast on 23 May 2023. The feature was produced on the initiative of Silvia Boadella, grandniece of the artist and author of the book Sophie Taeuber-Arp. A Life for Art, who also portrays the artist in the film.
Feature in French
Feature in German
Zürich liest – Book Launch
Video of the book launch
Picture gallery of the book launch
On October 30, 2002 Silvia Boadella’s book Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Ein Leben für die Kunst/A Life through Art will be presented at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in the context of the book and literature festival Zürich liest. In a conversation with Salome Hohl, Director of the Cabaret Voltaire, Silvia Boadella shared her view on her great-aunt Sophie Taeuber Arp who is considered the most important female Swiss artist at the beginning of the twentieth century, and read passages from her book.
The book vernissage took place in conjunction with the exhibition Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Mai-Thu Perret, which will be on view at the Cabaret Voltaire from October 14, 2022 to April 30, 2023.
Retrospectives Sophie Taeuber-Arp
The new book by Silvia Boadella about Sophie Taeuber-Arp is inspired by the artist’s major retrospectives in 2021 und 2022:
Kunstmuseum Basel: March 19 – June 20, 2021
Tate Modern, London: July 13 – October 17, 2021
Museum of Modern Art, New York: November 21, 2021 – March 12, 2022.
Cultural event in Deutsches Haus at NYU
On November 18, 2021 a Zoom discussion was organized by the Deutsches Haus (NYU – New York University) giving Silvia Boadella the opportunity to present her book „Sophie Taeuber-Arp: A life through Art“, translated in English by Tess Lewis, at the time of the opening of the major MoMA retrospective dedicated to Sophie. The video of the conversation between Silvia Boadella, Tess Lewis and Rachel Cohen (moderator) was presented by Juliane Camfield, Director of the Deutsches Haus at NYU.
Tess Lewis has translated works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Christine Angot, Pascal Bruckner and Jean-Luc Benoziglio. In 2017, she received the ACFNY Translation Prize and the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel Angel of Oblivion by the Austrian writer Maja Haderlap.
Rachel Cohen (moderator) is a writer and has been awarded the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Believer, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago.
Comments to the book
“Silvia Boadella’s luminous book about Sophie Taeuber evokes the life of the artist clearly and precisely. Biographical details are intertwined with the processes that propelled Sophie Taeuber’s mercurial output. The book has the shape and feeling of a novel, but is more grounded in fact than fiction, whilst daring to take us inside the mind of the artist. At once personal and informative, produced with as much care and attention to detail as Sophie Taeuber’s own work, Silvia Boadella’s book both ensures the artist’s legacy and forges a new form of portraiture, one that is as full of longing as the artist’s work she so lovingly describes.”
Sally Potter, film director
“I read your text as a tender, vivid, and profoundly intimate portrayal of Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s life, work, and art. – Also, it almost seems a little ‘outside of time’, which seems to fit Sophie Taeuber-Arp (and our generation) very well.”
Klaus Merz, author
Interviews and Articles
arttv.ch
Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Ein Leben für die Kunst
Switzerland, October 24, 2022
MALMOE, Vienna
Die ganzheitliche Suche nach Schönheit, Interview by Urs Heinz Aerni
Austria, July 1, 2022
Unsere Zeitung
Die ganzheitliche Suche nach Schönheit, Interview by Urs Heinz Aerni
Austria, January 28, 2022
THE NEW CRITERION Bd. 40, Nr. 6
Accessory to modernism, by James Panero
February 2022
The Wall Street Journal
Bookshelf – Holiday Gift Books 2021: Art, by Lance Esplund
November 18, 2021
The Art Newspaper
An expert’s guide to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: five must-read books on the Swiss artist, by José da Silva
July 26, 2021
Literaturblatt.ch
Ein Leben für die Kunst – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Interview von Urs Heinz Aerni
Switzerland, December 2, 2021
The New Criterion
Book recommendation “Sophie Taeuber-Arp von Silvia Boadella”
November 23, 2021
The Wall Street Journal
Sophie Taeuber-Arp Was a Modernist Renaissance Woman, von Emily Ferguson
USA, July 2, 2021
Die Mittelländische Zeitung
Die ganzheitliche Suche nach Schönheit, by Urs Heinz Aerni
Switzerland, Oktober 18, 2021
Spuren
Schönheit von leichter Hand by Martin Frischknecht
Switzerland, Summer 2021
GlücksPost
Eine Künstlerin verwandelte den Albtraum, by Martin Frischknecht
Switzerland, August 19, 2021
Art Magazine PARNASS (online)
Summer Reading Tips by the Parnass Editorial Team: Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Austria, July 2021
Museumtijdschrift
Review of the book by Maaike Abma with english translation
The Netherlands, July 2021
The Telegraph on Sunday
Review of the book by Louis Wise
UK, July 11, 2021
BERG.LINK
Buchtipp: „Sophie Taeuber-Arp“
Switzerland, June 27, 2021
Inka Magazin
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Ein Leben für die Kunst – A Life Through Art by Roger Waltz
Germany, June 20, 2021
St. Galler Tagblatt
Meine Grosstante, die berühmte Künstlerin by Christina Genova
Switzerland, June 19, 2021
HISTORIEK. Online Geschiedenismagazine
Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Pionier van de abstracte kunst by Eliane Van den Ende
The Netherlands, June 13, 2021
Kunstmarkt.com
Ein Leben für die Kunst by Nicole Buesing and Heiko Klaas
Germany, April 22, 2021
TZ Magazin (Tessiner Zeitung)
Ein intimes Porträt Sophie Taeuber-Arps by „uj“
Switzerland, April 16, 2021
Dare Magazine
Ein Leben für die Kunst by Nicole Buesing and Heiko Klaas
April 13, 2021
Mujer Hoy
Otra Mirada: La grandes damas del arte abstracto by Rosa Gil and Alvaro Fernández-Espina
Spain, April 10, 2021
Financial Times
Archetype of a Modern Artist by Jackie Wullschläger
March 20/21, 2021
for the release of “Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Ein Leben für die Kunst / A Life through Art”
Ocula Magazine
Author Silvia Boadella on ‘Sophie Taeuber-Arp: A Life through Art’ by Michael Irwin
London, March 19, 2021
