Brice Marden

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Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938 in Bronxville , New York ) is an American artist. He is often classified as a representative of minimalism , although his work cannot be attributed exclusively to this trend.

Life

Marden grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York State. From 1956 to 1958 he attended the Florida Southern College in Lakeland , then until 1961 the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts , where he received the Bachelor of Fine Arts in the same year . In 1961 he briefly studied at Yale University Summer School of Music and Arts in Norfolk, Connecticut, where he met Chuck Close , Richard Serra and Nancy Graves .

On August 20, 1960, Brice Marden married Pauline Baez, the sister of the singer Joan Baez . In 1963 he finished his studies at Yale University of Art and Architecture with a Master of Arts , which he had begun in 1961, and moved to New York on the Lower East Side with his wife and son Nicholas Brice Marden II, born on March 23, 1961 . After his divorce from Pauline Baez in 1964, he married the painter Helen Harrington on November 7, 1969, with whom he first visited the Greek island of Hydra in 1971 , to which he has been regularly retreating over the summer since 1973. The impressions gathered there are noticeably reflected in his work (e.g. Souvenir de Grèce , Works on Paper, 1974–1996). The daughter Maya Mirabelle Zahara Marden was born on November 15, 1978 and the daughter Melia Io Bricia Marden on June 24, 1980.

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As a supervisor at the Jewish Museum in New York, he was able to deal intensively with the work of Jasper Johns , which was exhibited there in a 1964 retrospective . During this time he began to paint his monochromatic pictures, which initially only consisted of one panel. This was followed by his first solo exhibition at the Wilcox Gallery in Swarthmore . During a stay in Paris the following year he began to work in graphics. Here he also dealt with the work of Alberto Giacometti and Jean Fautrier .

From the fall of 1966 he worked as an assistant for Robert Rauschenberg in New York and had his first New York solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery. Here he showed his wax pictures for the first time, which he painted with a special color consisting of oil paint and beeswax. In 1968 Marden began assembling pictures from several panels.

A trip to Thailand, Sri Lanka and India in 1983 inspired Marden to learn about Asian culture, art and landscape. He then incorporated many elements of this culture into his work ( Shell Drawings , 1985–87). A visit to an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy in 1984 aroused his interest in this art, which had a decisive influence on his later work. An example of this is his 180 × 83 cm oil painting from 1995/96, Tang Dancer , which hangs in a private collection today (2011), or his oil painting Untitled # 1 from 1986 in the format 183 × 147 cm, which is today (2012) in the Daros Collection in Zurich.

In 2000 Marden began work on his most ambitious painting, The Propitious Garden of Plane Image .

Marden took part in numerous group exhibitions (including Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 ) and has already been recognized in several solo exhibitions and retrospectives, first with his 1975 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In October 2006 , the exhibition Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings opened at the Museum of Modern Art , New York, which was also shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in spring 2007 and at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in autumn 2007 was seen in Berlin. Germany's art critics have chosen this exhibition as “Exhibition of the Year 2007”.

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "M" / Marden, Brice, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 29, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

literature

  • Michael Semff, Andreas Strobl (eds.): The presence of the line: A selection of recent acquisitions of the 20th and 21st centuries from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich , Pinakothek der Moderne March 19 to June 21, 2009, Munich 2009, ISBN 978 3-927803-46-6
  • Hanne Dannenberger (Ed.) / Stephan Ziegler (Vorw.): Brice Marden. Jawlensky Prize Winner. Retrospective of Printmaking , Museum Wiesbaden , September 28, 2008 to January 18, 2009, 2008 ISBN 978-3-89258-080-5
  • Eva Keller / Regula Malin Brice Marden. Drawings and Paintings 1964-2002. Scalo Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-908247-70-5

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personal data
SURNAME Marden, Brice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American minimalism artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronxville , USA