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Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian sculptor and photographer born in Bruck an der Mur in 1954 who lives and works in Vienna. Trained at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna between 1979 and 1982.
In his work appear in both the artist himself, as other people working with him in absurd statuesque poses, in most cases with the use of everyday objects. Its images are not simply the documentation of a performance. With this procedure is to constantly review the concept of sculpture in two respects: first, relocating to humanize objects and, secondly, objectified the human body.
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Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto, one of the great Brazilian contemporary artists.
Ernesto Neto belongs to the large group of artists who follow the path marked by that another generation of Brazilian artists who broke the modern scheme in the late fifties and early sixties, artists like Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, try to eliminate the absolute nature of art to bring it to life (in its manifesto Neo-concrete, Oiticica and Clark talk, among other things, the need to see art not as an object but almost as a body). This new notion of artistic creation and experience proposed interaction of the viewer, an argument that is at the center of the aesthetic concerns of Ernesto Neto.
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Kurt Wenner
Kurt Wenner is arguably one of the street performers known and popular around the world, and although many may be an unknown, probably more than one observed some of his works through the internet.
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Charles Ray
Charles Ray (Los Angeles, 1953) is one of the great contemporary American sculptors who have created and school trend in modern art and has influenced pop culture and conceptualized
The art of Ray Charles has a lot to do with the relationship between art and body. In the early nineties, when artiststurned to look at your body, this time not as an explicit as in the days of Body Art, but as a context for exploration of the unconscious, place in which to experiment, closer to the anthropological, the organic and biographical. In this new context, which include figures such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Gober and Paul McCarthy, moves like a fish in water Charles Ray, an American born in 1953 in Chicago, author of several of the most important of this period. Leer más
Damien Hirst ¿art or speculation?
Born in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. His father, an auto mechanic, left his family when Hirst was 12. His mother, Mary, Catholic, worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau and says he lost control on the performer when he was very young. Hirst was arrested twice for shoplifting. Meanwhile, Damien saw his mother and uncompromising person: she once cut and tidy up your pants punk, and heated in an oven one of their albums of the Sex Pistols to turn it into a bowl of fruit. Damien said: “If she did not like what he was wearing, I quickly picked up the bus stop.” What he did was to encourage his mother’s taste for drawing, his only successful school subject.
His art teacher pleaded that Hirst would allow entry into the sixth grade, where he earned good grades, achieving a level “E” in the subject of art. He attended the University of Leeds, in Art and Design, but the first time I requested was denied admission. He worked for two years in the empowerment of construction sites in London, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1986-89), but again was refused a first application. As a student, Hirst worked part time at a mortuary, an experience that later influenced his choice of subjects and materials.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was the most famous Austrian artists of his time. But despite that, the personal aspects of his biography are still a mystery just unveiled. You can only review the facts of his public career, something the whole insufficient to clarify the complexities of a refined and tight work, whose elaborate symbolism often sticks close to keys.
Born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in the bosom of a family craft tradition that partly reflected the national plurality of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was Viennese, and his father, Ernst Klimt, Goldsmith Bohemian origin that guided his three sons were also born of the marriage, four daughters to the same career path.
Thus, Gustav Klimt, the oldest boy, enters 1876 in the School of Applied Arts Imperial Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna, an institution founded a few years ago to improve the situation of the industrial arts in the Empire. There will be a strong technical and theoretical and, upon graduation in 1883, is with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch mate the “Company of Artists”.
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