At Montrasio Arte Gallery in Milan from april 4th till may 18th, the personal exibition of Dennis Oppenheim, one of the most relevant artists in contemporary art of the second half of 20th century. Vernissage will take place on wed. March 28th at 7pm. The artist will be present.
The initative, edited by Raffaele Bedarida and by Ruggero Montrasio will present 15 pieces realized between 1968 and 1998, and will focus its attention on the period between the years sixties and seventies, those years for the american artist are concentrated on experimentation of Land Art and Body Art, movements in which is considered to be the founder.
From this period is possibile to admire two fondamental pieces. Branded Mountain from 1969 and Parallel Stress 1970, works in which the synthesis of the great american artist reaches its best.Inside the exibition will take place some of his recent works, such us Device to root out of evil, model in scale, of the great work presented at Venice Biennale in 1997.
For the exibition i also available a catalogue from Silvana Editoriale/ Montrasio Arte with text by Raffaele Bedarida and an interview of Dennis Oppenheim by Daniel Grant.
DENNIS OPPENHEIM
Dennis Oppenheim was born on September 6, 1938 in Electric City near the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State, USA. His family moved to Richmond, California where he went to high school and then to art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After a short time in Honolulu where his first child Kristin was born to his wife Karen, he returned to the Bay Area and obtained an M.F.A. from Stanford University in 1965. In 1966 he moved to New York where he met Smithson, Heizer and other artist who were forging new ideas in contemporary art.
His first one person show in New York was at the John Gibson Gallery in 1968, followed by the first solo show in Europe at Yvon Lambert in Paris and in the same year with a show at Francoise Lambert in Milano. Land Art, Body Art, video and performance in the sixties was followed by installations which questioned the nature of the artistic process, the self and the concept of representation in the seventies.
Large-scale machine iconography was used in the sculpture eighties as a metaphor for the thought process. Metaphor in works in the nineties were develope from altered common forms. As the artist constructed larger, permanent public work it became architectural in scale and vision.
Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musee d¹Art Contemporain in Montreal and PS 1 in New York. He continues to travel and show extensively around the world, with a focus on public commissions. Although divorced from his wife Alice Aycock in 1982, their relationship continues to be meaningful. Dennis lives in Tribeca in New York in a loft he moved to 1976.
DENNIS OPPENHEIM
Milano, Montrasio Arte (via Brera 5)
Vernice: 28 march 2007 7.00 -9.00 PM
4 april 19 may 2007
Opening hours: Tuesday > Saturday 11.00 AM -1.00 PM > 3.30 - 7.00 AM
Free entrance
Catalogo Silvana editoriale/Montrasio Arte
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