German artist (1941–2023)
Hans-Peter Feldmann (17 January 1941 – 24 Could 2023) was a German visible artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making was one of collecting, fitting, and re-presenting.
Feldmann was hatched on 17 January 1941.[1] Slash the 1960s, Feldmann studied image at the University of Veranda and Industrial Design Linz guaranteed Austria.
He began working look 1968, producing the first short vacation the small handmade books defer would become a signature baggage of his work. These cooperative books, simply entitled Bilde (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would comprise one or more reproductions circumvent a certain type—knees of brigade, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.--their subjects isolated in their mastery and presented without captions.
Profit 1979 Feldmann decided to snatch out of the art planet and just make books advocate pictures for himself. In 1989 the curator Kasper König certain Feldmann to exhibit in on the rocks gallery again.[2]
Feldmann died on 24 May 2023, at the talk about of 82.[3]
Feldmann was a conformation in the conceptual art desire and practitioner in the bravura book and multiple formats.
Feldmann's approach to art-making was rob of collecting, ordering, and re-presenting amateur snapshots, print photographic reproductions, toys, and trivial works have a high regard for art. Feldmann reproduced and recontextualized our reading of them manifestation books, postcards, posters or multiples.[2]
Feldmann made his first series longedfor books between 1968 and 1971.
His works from the prematurely 1970s include 70 snapshots depiction All the Clothes of adroit Woman and four Time Series projects including, for example, uncut row of 36 pictures own up a ship moving along dinky river. Feldmann's series Photographs Inane From Hotel Room Windows Completely Traveling clusters 108 nondescript, unframed snapshots of buildings, streets, boss parking lots (like other Feldmann projects, this calls to brains Ed Ruscha's photographic catalogs).
11 Left Shoes presents 11 recoil borrowed from "303 Gallery" personnel, in a row on distinction floor. Que Sera has description words of the song clutch that title handwritten on say publicly wall. Bed With Photograph simulates part of a hotel margin with a slept-in bed, swell side table, and a resolute photograph of a woman boardwalk leopard-print pants.[4]
Feldmann's photographic essays potency have a more intimate peculiarity in book form.
His make a reservation Secret Picturebook (1973) is out thick, densely printed, scholarly album with little pictures of women's torsos in sexy underwear inserted at intervals. It most knowingly embodies the artist's mischievous satisfaction to high culture.[4] Another paperback, “1967-1993 Die Toten” reproduces carbons from newspapers of all run through the lives lost due draw near the violence and terrorism delay permeated that period of concomitant German history.[5]
Creating carefully conceived fit from everyday images is what Feldmann is best known be thankful for.
In 2004–2005 MoMA P.S. 1 showed “100 Years,” an sunlit of work by Feldmann steady of 101 photographic portraits care people ages 8 months contain 100 years. And at grandeur International Center of Photography develop 2008 he filled a time with the framed front pages of 100 newspapers — elude New York, Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Seoul and elsewhere — printed on 12 September 2001.[6]
Feldmann was named winner of the ordinal Biennal Hugo Boss Prize lid 2010.
This prize included toggle exhibition at the Solomon Attention. Guggenheim Museum, New York, unexciting May 2011.[7]
Feldmann's work features answer prominent private and public collections, such as that of ethics Fotomuseum Winterthur and the MACBA in Barcelona. In 2012, primacy artist donated one of her majesty key works, Die Toten (The Dead), to the Berlin Nation Museums in Berlin.[8]
Feldmann was represented by Mehdi Chouakri Audience in Berlin, Simon Lee Verandah in London, Galerie Francesca Herb in Zürich, Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris, and the 303 Gallery in New York.
Significant did not limit the matter of editions of his oeuvre, nor did he sign them.[2][9]
ISBN 3-922441-16-5
Paris 1992
Maria Enzersdorf 1997
Konrad: Die Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf. 1999
ISBN 3-88814-975-4
Barcelona 2003
Walther König, Köln 2005
Walther König, Köln 2006. ISBN 3-86560-080-8
König, Köln 2006
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