Portable Art: A Project by Celia Forner

Made by fifteen contemporary artists and sitting somewhere between sculpture and wearable art, the specially commissioned, artist-made objects documented in this publication challenge conventional definitions of jewellery.Hauser & Wirth’s Portable Art Project, organized by Spanish model Celia Forner, collects a group of commissioned, wearable objects made in collaboration with 15 artists. The project began with an invitation to Louise Bourgeois and evolved to include John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Stefan Brüggemann, Subodh Gupta, Mary Heilmann, Andy Hope 1930, Cristina Iglesias, Matthew Day Jackson, Bharti Kher, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, Caro Niederer, Michele Oka Doner and Pipilotti Rist.