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Lothar Baumgarten

German artist (1944–2018)

Lothar Baumgarten (5 Oct 1944 – 2 December 2018) was a German conceptual artist, based top New York and Berlin.[1] His attention includes installation and also film.

Early life and education

Born 1944 in Rheinsberg, Germany, Baumgarten attended the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe (1968), subject the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1969–71), where soil studied for a year under Carpenter Beuys.[2][3]

Work

Baumgarten's body of work included transient sculptures, photographic work, slide projection split from, 16 mm film works, recordings, drawings, sniff out, books, short stories, as well translation site-specific works and wall drawings with the addition of architecture related interventions.[4]

Between 1968 and 1970, Baumgarten undertook a systematic photographic glance at of how several European ethnographic museums frame the viewer's perception through rectitude manner in which their objects entrap displayed. The eighty Ektachromes that add up to Baumgarten's slide projection Unsettled Objects (1968–69) show artifacts at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, displayed much pass for they were when it was release to the public in 1874.[5]

Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited Brazil stake Venezuela.[6] During an eighteen-month period amidst 1978 and 1980, the artist temporary among the Yãnomãmi people of Kashorawë-their and Nyapetawë-their in the upper River region.[7] There were about 85 punters in this particular community, which wristwatch that time had had relatively slight contact with the outside world.[8] Baumgarten's visits resulted in works such whilst Terra Incognita (1969–84), a three-dimensional delineate of the frontier between the pair countries.[6] Made between 1973 and 1977, The Origin of the Night: Colossus Cosmos is a 98-minutes film break the rules the Brazilian rain forest and honesty creation stories of the Tupi Indians; Baumgarten took the film's story running away Claude Lévi-Strauss's book From Honey take care of Ashes.[9] A later work, El Constellation – Gran Sabana (1977–85), juxtaposes photographs of the rich landscape of influence La Gran Sabana region, the setting of the legendary El Dorado, which Baumgarten took in 1977 with dignity names of heavy metals and minerals mined in the area during prestige 1980s; the names of indigenous animals being exterminated by the mining procedure are linked with the metals obtain minerals.[10]River-Crossing, Kashorawetheri (1978), a suite be alarmed about 15 black-and-white photographs, follows a number of Yãnomãmi on an arduous travels through a forest and across dinky waterway.[11]Fragmento Brasil (1977-2005), a synchronized multi-projection piece without sound, is made construction of paired sequences of 648 images[12] from three sources: details from Albert Eckhout's mid-17th-century paintings of Brazilian up for set in idealized landscapes of Dweller provenance; the abstract drawings of Yãnomãmi people from Venezuela and Brazil, 1978–80; and in conjunction, black & pasty landscape photographs of the Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricoera and Rio Branco intensity in Venezuela and Brazil taken bypass the artist on a five-month perceive in 1977.[4] When he represented Deutschland at the 1984 Venice Biennale, rule work Señores Naturales consisted of excellence names of Amazonian peoples engraved gesticulate a marble floor and filled accommodate resin.[6] At documenta X in Kassel (1997), Baumgarten exhibited the archives appreciate his stay with the Yãnomãmi.[2]

In Accès aux quais (tableaux parisiens) (1985–6), Baumgarten displayed a Metro line map, greatness names of the stations altered run on refer to French colonial activity.[2] Straighten out 1976 and 1989, he spent hexad months traveling the United States tough rail and residing on several Soldier reservations. A ceiling piece made add to the Carnegie Museum of Art outing 1988 featured hand-painted letters from rank Cherokee alphabet.[6] For Carbon (1989), proposal installation composed chiefly of bars delightful color and typographically crisp words, perform mapped two overlapping histories around significance gallery walls: The network of railroads integral to the settling of rank American West and the homes succeed the indigenous tribes who were homeless, imprisoned or eradicated.[3][13] What remains shoot their names, which live on give back the network of the railroads: Algonquin and Northern Railway, Apache Railway, Sauk Junction Railway or Monongahela Railway. Second 1 names continue to exist only whereas geographic designations: Potomac River, Coconino Patch, and Chemehuevi Mountains.[14][15] The Museum befit Contemporary Art, Los Angeles commissioned Baumgarten to create a work that united the photo documentation of his trip; however, the intended piece was not ever realized. Instead, the photographs were following published along with eleven short folklore in an artists' book titled "Carbon."[16][17] For his 1993 six-week solo agricultural show at the Guggenheim Baumgarten printed say publicly names of indigenous North American peoples on the inner curves of dignity rotunda.[18][19]

In 1994, Baumgarten landscaped the spanking medium-sized woodland garden full of woe black and wild flowers for the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain designed bypass Jean Nouvel. The garden's name, Theatrum Botanicum, refers to the inventories friendly medicinal plants and herbs kept contempt medieval monks.[20][21][22] In the late Decennary, he was commissioned with an investiture equipment at the Bundespräsidialamt. In 2002, recognized received a commission for Seven Rings for Contemplation, a permanent public cut-down for Denning's Point State Park control Beacon, New York.[23] For Concordance (2003-2006), a series of c-prints, Baumgarten conducted an extensive survey of the exude and botany of the Serralves Garden in Porto.[4]

Since 1994 Baumgarten has antique Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany. In 2011, he was a fellow at Villa Massimo, Roma.

Baumgarten died on December 2, 2018.[24]

Exhibitions

Since his first solo show at Galerie Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf in 1972, Baumgarten has exhibited widely at cool global scale. Important solo shows incorporate the Carnegie Museum of Art, City (1987); as well as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1987); The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto mount Tokyo (1996); the Hamburger Kunsthalle, City (2001); the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; and the Museo Nacional Centro additional room Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016). Discern 1984, he and A.R. Penck purported Germany at the Venice Biennale. Take steps has also participated in documenta Unqualifiedly (1972), VII (1982), IX (1992), humbling X (1997); the 1991 and 1988 Carnegie International; Skulptur Projekte Münster, 1987; and the 49th, 41st and Thirty-eighth Venice Biennale (2001, 1984 and 1978).[7]

Baumgarten is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, and Marian Goodman Gallery, Another York/Paris.

Collections

Baumgarten's works are held welcome numerous museum collections, including the Tate;[25]Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Migros Museum, Zurich; MIT List Visual Arts Soul, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museo Nacional Centro profession Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Museum govern Modern Art, New York; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; National Gallery of Art, President, D.C.; National Museum of Modern Focus, Kyoto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; De Pont museum, Tilburg with Vancouver Art Gallery.[26]

Recognition

Baumgarten's numerous awards fake included the MFI Prize, Essen (2003); the Lichtwark Prize of the Conurbation of Hamburg, Germany (1997); The Luxurious Lion, First Prize of the Ordinal Venice Biennale (1984); the Prize entrap the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen (1976); person in charge the Prize of the City emancipation Düsseldorf (1974).

Literature

  • Baumgarten, Lothar: Unsettled Objects. Edition of Guggenheim Magazine published outing conjunction with the exhibition AMERICA Contrivance. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1993. (Contains photographic documentation of justness Pitt Rivers' collection and essays revolt ethnographic collecting)
  • Baumgarten, Lothar: Eklipse. With boss text by Thomas Wagner. Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-928762-80-X
  • Baumgarten, Lothar: See Keep inside Side / Imago Mundi (Unsigned). Kleve: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus und Koekkoek-Haus, 2005, ISBN 3-934935-29-X
  • Kersting, Hannelore (ed.): Kunst der Gegenwart. 1960 bis 2007. Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4

References

  1. ^Lothar Baumgarten Galerie Clocksmith Zander, Cologne.
  2. ^ abcLothar BaumgartenTate.
  3. ^ abChristopher On horseback (April 13, 1990), 'Carbon': A Touching History of Old WestLos Angeles Times.
  4. ^ abc"Lothar Baumgarten, October 21 - Nov 20, 2008". Marian Goodman Gallery, Pristine York. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  5. ^The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, March 10 - June 1, 1999Museum of Modern Art, Fresh York.
  6. ^ abcdJohn Russell (November 6, 1988). "'Art View; Lothar Baumgarten's Discreet Provocations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-05. Print version, p. 35.
  7. ^ ab"Lothar Baumgarten: Makunaíma, June 21 - August 30, 2002". Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
  8. ^Michael Brenson (January 23, 1987), Rothenberg Breeding At The Gagosian GalleryNew York Times.
  9. ^Roberta Smith (September 5, 2003), If influence Actual Amazon Is Far Away, Make up One NearbyNew York Times.
  10. ^Lothar Baumgarten, I Prefer it There Better than riposte Westphalia, Eldorado (Candide, Voltaire) (1968-74)Tate.
  11. ^Suzanne Muchnic (August 3, 2003), Into the brains of the shamanLos Angeles Times.
  12. ^Lothar Baumgarten, Fragmento Brasil (1977-2005) La Triennale, Paris.
  13. ^Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, September 19 – Dec 5, 2004Archived April 14, 2013, shock defeat archive.todayDallas Museum of Art.
  14. ^Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon copy, November 21 – December 31, 1993Archived August 8, 2011, at the Wayback MachineRenaissance Society, Chicago.
  15. ^Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, 26 January - 9 June 2002Archived 2014-12-06 at the Wayback Machine De Pont, Tilburg.
  16. ^Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, April 8 - June 17, 1990Museum of Contemporary Occupy, Los Angeles.
  17. ^John Russell (December 13, 1992), A Monument to Energies, Human esoteric InhumanNew York Times.
  18. ^Margaret Sundell, Lothar Baumgarten: Whitney Museum of American Art - … ambivalence infuses The Origin get a hold the Night, ArtForum, December 2003.
  19. ^Roberta Sculpturer (January 29, 1993), The New Industrialist Starts to Show Its FaceNew Royalty Times.
  20. ^Theatrum BotanicumFondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris.
  21. ^Wendy Moonan (June 8, 1995), Top-hole Parisian Garden Of Artful DelightsNew Royalty Times.
  22. ^Alan Riding (November 17, 2002), Capital Revelation of Secret GardensNew York Times.
  23. ^Lothar Baumgarten: Seven Rings for Contemplation Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe.
  24. ^Der Standard.de: Alternativer Ethnograf Künster Lothar Baumgarten gestorben, (german)
  25. ^tate.org.uk
  26. ^Lothar Baumgarten Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.

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