Imants Tillers
Imants Tillers (* 1950 in Sydney ) is an Australian conceptual artist and painter .
life and work
Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950 to Latvian parents. He studied architecture at the University of Sydney from 1969 to 1972 and earned his bachelor's degree with distinction. Imants Tillers is an autodidact as an artist . His role models are the Australian landscape painter Fred Williams and the New Zealand artist Colin McCahon . Tillers lives and works in Cooma .
Untitled (1978) is an early work of Appropriation Art . Moments of Inertia (1972–73), Conversations with the Bride (1974–75), The Forming of Place (1987) and The Bridge of Reversible Destiny (1990) are other well-known works.
It is typical of Tillers' paintings that he assembles small canvases like tiles into one large work. In the beginning Tillers painted with oil pastels and since the 1980s mainly with acrylic paint on canvas.
Exhibitions (selection)
Numerous exhibitions by Imants Tillers have taken place since 1969 in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Solo exhibitions
- 2006: One world many visions National Gallery of Australia , Canberra
Group exhibitions
- 2011: Out of Australia: Prints + Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas British Museum , London
- 2002: Art After Art Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen
- 1997: Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
- 1989: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart , Stuttgart
- 1996: Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- 1995: Antipodean Currents Guggenheim SoHo , New York
- 1986: 42nd Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 1984: An Australian Accent: Three Artists from Australia MoMA PS1 , New York
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
- 1979: 3rd Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
- 1975: 13th São Paulo Biennale , São Paulo
Awards
Imants Tillers has received numerous awards including the 2012 Wynne Prize .
literature
- Imants Tillers and the “Book of Power” by Wystam Curnow, Craftsman House 1997, (English) ISBN 978-9-05703-2-714
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); S. 376, Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
- ↑ gagprojects Imants Tillers ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2015 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 on May 16, 2015
- ↑ Sherman Galleries, Graham Coulter-Smith Imants Tillers: inventing postmodern appropriation , accessed on May 16, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Art Collector, John McDonald Imants Tillers: Large Canvas , accessed on May 16, 2015.
- ↑ roselyn oxley9 gallery Imants Tillers , accessed on May 16, 2015 (English).
- ↑ NGA Imants Tillers One world many visions , accessed on May 16, 2015 (English).
- ^ Art Gallery NSW Winner: Wynne Prize 2012 Imants Tillers , accessed on May 16, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tillers, Imants |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian conceptual artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |