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MOT (gallery)
MOT International, formerly MOT Gallery, was a contemporary art gallery in east London run by Chris Hammond. It opened in 2002 and closed in 2016. History The MOT gallery was founded in 2002 by Chris Hammond, Floyd Varey and Mally Mallinson.Waddell, Heather (2006). ''London Art and Artists Guide'', 10th edition, p. 156. London Art and Artists Guide. , It was run as an "independent space and curatorial project". In August 2002, as the first of two projects taking place during that summer, Louise Harris showed new works, which addressed a subject via a particular medium, including watercolours of blondes, landscape images made from felt and abstract collages with paper on the theme of sex. In 2005, Hammond curated Shezad Dawood's ''Paradise Row''.Grimshaw, Chloe. ''The Independent on Sunday'', "Interiors: Welcome to Paradise", 19 June 2005. Retrieved frofindarticles.com 28 January 2009. Dawood bought a run-down Georgian house in Paradise Row, Bethnal Green and renovated the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation,"Roberta Smith (March 11, 1997)Martin Kippenberger, 43, Artist Of Irreverence and Mixed Styles''New York Times''. according to Roberta Smith of the ''New York Times''. He was at the center of a generation of German ''enfants terribles'' including Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg. Life Kippenberger was born in Dortmund in 1953, the only boy in a family with five children, with two elder and two younger sisters. His father was director of the Katharina-Elisabeth colliery, his mother a dermatologist. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Ding
Liu Ding (; born 1976, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province) is a Chinese artist and curator based in Beijing. Liu’s artistic practices range from installation, painting, photography, and theatre set design and production, whereas his professional skills vary from magazine editorial, television production, and curatorial work. Exhibitions and artistic practices Constantly challenging the conventional context of artists’ status, art work, workers involving in the production of art work, galleries and museums, collectors, audiences, and so on, Liu's creation and reflection are often theoretical and involved with critical thinking. After abandoning formal education and moving to Shanghai, Liu started up Pink Studio in 2001, where he continued his artistic practice. In 2011, he co-founded Office of Art and Theory with Carol Yinghua Lu in Beijing. His works have been exhibited in numerous art institutions including the Turner Museum and the Arnolfini Gallery in the UK, the Kunsthalle Wien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Seung-taek
Lee Seung-taek (born 12 May 1932) is a Korean interdisciplinary artist. He is a sculptor, an installation artist, and a performance artist—conceptualizing in the notion of "anti-concept" or "anti-art" in the Korean art scene. As one of the first generation pioneers of experimental art in Korea, Lee is known for his "non-sculptural" artworks that include "display of pieces in stone, rope and newsprint." Lee mainly worked independently and created works that deviated from the dominant artistic concepts in Korea. "Unfettered by the demands of crude nationalism or from chasing the so-called international art world," Lee's work came to be seen as "starting point for a different kind of avant-garde lineage." He has strived to investigate new ways of creating art by experimenting with non-material objects. In 2009, Lee was the first recipient to be awarded Nam June Paik Art Center Prize. Career Born in Kowon, Hamgyeongnam-do, Hamgyeong Province in North Korea, Seung-taek Lee has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing. Early life and education Born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1940, Susan Hiller was raised in and around Cleveland, Ohio. She later moved to Coral Gables, Florida, in 1950 where she attended Coral Gables Senior High School, graduating in 1957. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. in 1961. After spending a year in New York City studying photography, film, drawing and linguistics, Hiller went on to pursue a post-graduate degree at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology. She completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1965.Cornelia H. Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark eds., ''WHACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution',(Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 2007)'' After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Haendel
Karl Haendel, (born 1976, New York City) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Haendel is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and Wentrup Gallery, Berlin. Education Haendel received a bachelor's degree in Art Semiotics and Art History from Brown University in 1998. He attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and 2000 respectively. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003 where he studied with John Baldessari, Mary Kelly, and Paul McCarthy. Work Haendel's practice focuses on the appropriation and recontextualization of visual signifiers through photorealistic drawing. His drawings, while often direct copies of photographs, are also composed at a markedly larger scale; transforming the quickness of composing a photograph with the manual labor required to produce drawings that often exceed 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braco Dimitrijevic
Braco may refer to: Places * Braco, Perth and Kinross, a village in Scotland * Braco Airfield, an airstrip in Jamaica People * Braco (faith healer) (born 1967), self-styled healer from Croatia * Baron Braco, a title in the Peerage of Ireland * Braco Dimitrijević Slobodan "Braco" Dimitrijević (born 18 June 1948) is a Bosnian conceptual artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it. He lives and works in Paris, France. He has exhibited internationally since the 1970s, includ ... (born 1948), Paris-based Bosnian and Yugoslavian artist * Celestino Aós Braco (born 1945), Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church * Lorraine Braco (born 1954), American film and television actress * Vincent Braco (1835-1889), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church See also * Bracco (other) * Bracho (other) * Brako (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bedwell
Simon Bedwell (born 1963 in Croydon, Surrey) is an English artist based in London. Bedwell has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo shows ''The Furnishers'' at White Columns in New York City, ''Galleon and Other Stories'' at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ''England Their England'' at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, '' Beck's Futures 2004'' at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, Cell Project Space, London, 2004, Studio Voltaire London, 2009, Piper Keys, London and Hospitalfield House, Arbroath in 2017. Career Simon Bedwell spent most of his art career as a member of the London-based collective BANK. BANK also included Dino Demosthenous, David Burrows, John Russell, Milly Thompson and Andrew Williamson – who, throughout the 1990s and up until 2003, were a consistent presence on the London art-scene. BANK regularly hosted shows in their warehouse space that combined the work of the group with that of other artists in schizophrenic installations wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ericka Beckman
Ericka Beckman is an American filmmaker who began to make films in the 1970s as part of the Pictures Generation. Her films concern the relationship between people and images, and how images structure people's perception of themselves and of reality. Early life and education Beckman earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974 and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1975. She attended the California Institute of the Arts, originally as a visual artist, but later changed her focus to filmmaking. Career in filmmaking Beckman went to graduate school at CalArts in the late 1970s, and was influenced by the percussionist John Bergamo who taught there, and by Jack Goldstein's film loops. Beckman's early films were handmade and collaborative, integrating choreography, music, and singing, as well as sculptural objects. Her handmade cinematic effects have been compared to Fernand Léger's ''Ballet mécanique'' (1921) or Hans Richter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BANK (art Collective)
BANK was an artists' group active in London during the 1990s. History and project Simon Bedwell and John Russell spent a few years on sporadic art events and fake mailout-only 'shows' in the years after leaving St Martins artschool, then in 1991 organised their first proper show, with fellow ex-St Martins friend Dino Demosthenous, in an ex-Barclays on Lewisham Way, South London; this is where the name BANK came from. Dino Demosthenous left in 1992. In 1993, Russell and Bedwell were joined by Milly Thompson, David Burrows and Andrew Williamson (Bedwell, Burrows and Williamson having worked as a group sporadically for the 2 years previously, with shows at Richard Demarco gallery Edinburgh, and Clove 2, London). Burrows left BANK in 1995, Williamson in 1998, Russell in 2000. When BANK's own gallery, Gallerie Poo Poo, closed after the three-day show Press Release in January 1999, the group began to exhibit their collective work in other venues: The Mayor Gallery, London, Magasin 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) is a British artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ''State Britain''. His work ''Ecce Homo'' (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. ''Labyrinth'' (2013), a permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work ''Writ in Water'' was realized for the National Trust to celebrate Magna Carta at Runnymede. Life and career Education and artistic career Wallinger was born in Chigwell, UK, in 1959. He trained at Chelsea College of Arts, Chelsea School of Art in London, from 1978 to 1981, before studying for an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London from 1983 to 1985. After graduating in 1985, most of his degree show was exhibited by the Anthony Reynolds G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Higgs
Matthew Higgs (born 1964) is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of ''Imprint 93'', a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller. During the 1990s he promoted artists outside the Young British Artists mainstream of the period. Early life and ''Imprint 93'' Higgs was born in West Yorkshire. He studied Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic.(since renamed the University of Northumbria) In 1988, he moved to London and worked for the Grey advertising agency in the media department.David Barrett, ''Art Monthly'', September, 1995. In 1993, he founded his own press, ''Imprint 93'', publishing a series of artist’s editions and multiples. Participating artists included: Billy Childish, Martin Creed, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Jeremy Deller. In 1994, Higgs exhibited at EASTinternational which was selected by Jan Dibbets and Rudi Fuchs. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
