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Art e-Facts 12
In spring of 2004, Rachel Whiteread was offered the annual Unileve Series commision toproduce a piece for the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. However, she delayes th acceptance for 5 to 6 months until she was confident she could conceive a work to fill the space.
In 1993. the band, KLF announced they would award the Turner Prize winner of that year £40,000 for the worst artwork. This award was significantly more than the £20,000 Turner prize award. Whiteread was awarded both these prizes. She initially refused to collect the KLF prize, but when they threated to perform a live burning of the money should it remain unclaimed, Whiteread collected the prize and donnated the £40,000 award to charity.
Courtesy of J. Duffy & C. Woods.
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Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1964. He studied at Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany before moving to London in the early 1980s. In the UK, Teller was introduced to the world of fashion photography and used his assignments at i-D, The Face, Index and W magazines as resources from which he could nurture his own photographic sensibility.
Selected works by Jurgen Teller are available to view at Inverleith House Gallery, Edinburgh until April 15th 2007
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When the late Martin Kippenberger said ‘every artist is a human being’ it was a twist on Joseph Beuys’s famous proclaimation that ‘Everybody is an artist.’
Kippenberger was a prolific artist, best known for his mock-Neo-Expressionist style painting he also combined many differing styles and media in the production of sculpture.
Courtesy of C. Woods
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The term Neo-Dada is associated with the work of artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The term was first applied, in an un-attributed comment, in a 1958 issue of the American magazine Artnews .
The term refers to two aspects of the early 20th Century Dada movement. Firstly there was the connection through the use of ‘found’ objects and junk to create combines – which are hybrid painting – sculptures – which can be seen in the work of Rauschenberg and Schwitters and secondly there is the Dada-like sense of paradox and ambiguity which can be seen in the paintings of Jasper John with his use of numbers, maps, targets that fill the canvas.
Neo-Dada provided a bridge between abstract expressionism and pop art.
Courtesy of D. McLachlan.
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Marlene Dumas was born in Cape Town i South Africa. From 1972 to 1975 she attended Cape Town University, where she studied for a BA in Visual Arts. She then completed her studies in Haarlem, in the Netherlands.
The majority of her works may be categorised as ‘portraits’, but they are not portraits in the traditional sense. Rather than representing an actual person, they represent an emotion or a state of mind. Themes central to Dumas’ work include race and sexuality, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.
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The Guerrilla Girls is a group of feminist artists established in New York City in 1985 and is known for using guerrilla art) to promote women, and minorities, in the arts. Their traditional tactics included putting up posters decrying the gender and racial imbalance of artists represented in galleries.
One of their most famous posters was plastered across New York City buses in 1989. Its headline read, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” According to the Guerrilla Girls, they conducted a “weenie count” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and found that less than 5% of the artists in the Met’s Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nudes were female.
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German artist Anselm Kiefer prduced a series of books which are so poisonnous to the touch that the assistants who fabricated them had to wear gloves.
Coutesy of I. Henderson
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Maurizio Cattelan may be best known to British audiences for his sculpture of Pope Jean Paul II struck down by a meteorite yet the only Maurizio Cattelan in a British private collection is ‘Betsy’ a life size photo realist sculpture of the collectors Grandmother kept in a domestic fridge.
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Considered “the most important American artist of his generation” by the New York Times in the mid 1990s, Mathew Barney is the man behind the Cremaster cycle – five films, comprising 12 lines of dialogue during 6.5 hours of “the most audacious, repulsive, seductive, annoying, frustrating, puerile, pretentious, hilarious, beautiful and original images you will see, with no clear plot, lashings of Vaseline and sculptural, visual and prosthetic references to all things sexual and reproductive.”
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In August 2006, the British Council announced that they had chosen Tracey Emin to produce a show of new work for the British Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Emin will be only the second woman to produce a solo show for the UK at the Biennale, following Rachel Whiteread in 1997.
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In December 2004, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 of the most powerful people in the British art world. This is testimony to the influence of Duchamp’s work, and the mark he has left on the art world.
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Modern Art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the then new approach to art where it was no longer important to represent a subject realistically — the invention of photography had made this function of art obsolete. Instead, artists started experimenting with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature, materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.
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Today we launch the HND Contemporary Art Practice Blog.
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