Mark Jenkins (artist)

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Mark Jenkins (* 1970 in Alexandria , Virginia ) is an American street art - artists . His best-known works are installations in the street space, which he makes from adhesive tape. He lives in Washington, DC

Works

Meter pop

Jenkins' first work of art of this kind was a series of clear tape prints of his body that he installed in the streets of Rio de Janeiro (2003). In the Storker project in 2005 with Sandra Fernandez, he placed a number of "babies" made of adhesive tape in different cities. In 2006, Jenkins began to dress the sculptures in such a way that they became hyperrealistic bodies (Embed Series) . In 2007 Banksy personally invited the artist to participate in his project Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem.

In 2008 he worked with Greenpeace on the street installation Plight of the Polar Bears .

In cooperation with the art association Positive Propaganda eV, Mark Jenkins realized a work in Munich in 2013 with the title Tic-Tac-Toe , in which a sculpture in the form of a graffiti artist was painted on a facade in Munich's Westend.

Jenkins' street art uses the street as a stage on which passers-by become actors. Many of his installations have called security forces on the scene, whom he also sees as players.

Glazed Paradise

Jenkins describes his oeuvre as "Glazed Paradise"; his website of the same name glazedparadise.com shows digital collages of his street figures in surreal surroundings.

“Mark Jenkins became known through a number of unusual installations in urban space. Lifelike animal figures made from conventional packing tape, such as dogs and giraffes, but also people, were left behind by him without a specific assignment at selected locations in mostly urban surroundings. In this tradition, 'Embed' is a long-term project for which Jenkins uses tape tapes from his own body. These figures dressed by him can be found in various poses. They beg, sit on roofs or wait on facade walls. All of Jenkins' characters have in common that they are faceless and therefore appear strange despite their everyday appearance. They seem to be completely isolated from their surroundings. His sculptures are like a social experiment that provokes a whole range of emotions. For example, when a bear figure attached to a garbage can, which the artist installed in 2008 for a Greenpeace environmental campaign, triggers such panic that even a bomb disposal squad was called in. "

- Isabel Abele in: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2008: fresh air smells funny , Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück.
• 2008: Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking , KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark.
• 2009: Urban Art - Works from the Reinking Collection , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen.
• 2011: Street Art - meanwhile in deepest east anglia, thunderbirds were go… , Von der Heydt-Museum , Kunsthalle Barmen , Wuppertal.
• 2012: Holding Cell , Ruttkowski; 68 , Cologne.
• 2014: Terrible Horrible , Ruttkowski; 68 , Cologne.
• 2014: 50 Years of Hell, Positive Propaganda eV, Munich.

literature

• The Urban Theater ( Die Gestalten Verlag )
• Glazed Paradise (ROJO)
• Outcasts (Lazarides Gallery)
• Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking. 1st edition, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2008) ISBN 87-91252-23-7 (exhibition catalog).
• André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking : Fresh Air Smells Funny: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg (2009) ISBN 3-939583-94-4 (exhibition catalog).
• Ingo Clauß , Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (2009) ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 (exhibition catalog).

Web links

• Literature by and about Mark Jenkins in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jenkins' official website
• Mark Jenkins on kunstaspekte.de
• tapesculpture.org Jenkins tape-casting tutorial
• Washington Post (Feature 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Jenkins: Storker Project
2. ↑ Mark Jenkins: Santa's Ghetto Bethlehem ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 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. 
3. ↑ Mark Jenkins: Traffic Go Round ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ / homelessness-among-polar-bears . Greenpeace.org (video 2007)
5. ↑ Mark Jenkins x Positive Propaganda
6. ↑ Interview with Mark Jenkins. Radio LORA Munich, 2013
7. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
8. ^ Exhibition "Fresh air smells funny". Street art, graffiti and urban art in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche . City of Osnabrück, accessed on May 18, 2013 : “On display are street art, graffiti and urban art, including works by Herbert Baglione (Brazil), Boxi (Great Britain), Brad Downey (USA), DAIM (Germany), D * Face (Great Britain), Hera (Germany), Mark Jenkins (USA), Daniel Man (Germany), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Pius Portman (Switzerland), Swoon (USA), Tilt (France), Vitché (Brazil), Zevs ( France), Zezao (Brazil). " 
9. ^ André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking: Fresh Air Smells Funny: an exhibition with selected urban artists. 1st edition. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 3-939583-94-4 (exhibition catalog).
10. ↑ Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking . KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, 2008, accessed on June 27, 2013 (English): “The exhibitions includes works of art by, among others: Till FE Haupt (DE), Mirko Reisser alias DAIM (DE), Rainer Splitt (DE), Banksy , (UK), ZEVS (FR), Otavio og Gustavo Pandolfo alias Os Gemeos (BRA), Santiago Sierra (ESP), Katsuhiro Saiki (JP), Liam Gillick (GB), Barbara Kruger (USA), Toshiya Kobayashi (JP) , Tony Ousler (USA) and Nan Goldin (USA). " 
11. ↑ Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking . 1st edition, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2008) ISBN 87-91252-23-7 (exhibition catalog).
12. ^ Urban Art. Works from the Reinking Collection. New Museum Weserburg Bremen Foundation, 2009, accessed on June 25, 2013 : “Participating artists: Akim, Ash, Herbert Baglione , Banksy , Blu , Boxi , Bronco, Dave the Chimp, Brad Downey , Ben Eine, Shepard Fairey , Mark Jenkins, Kaws, Daniel Man , Miss Van, Mode 2, Os Gêmeos , Mirko Reisser (DAIM) , Space Invader , Swoon, DTagno, Tilt, Vitché, Heiko Zahlmann, Zevs, Zezão " 
13. ^ Ingo Clauss, Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern (2009) ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 .
14. ↑ Ruhs-Woitschützke, Irmgard: street art. At the Kunsthalle Barmen. In: Rhenish ART. KulturMagazin-online. Editorial office ImDialog, November 2008, accessed on May 30, 2013 : “The curator Rik Reinking made the selection of the artists with a wealth of knowledge. Participants : Ash, Herbert Baglione , Boxi , Brad Downey , Ben Eine, Faith47, Boris Hoppek , Mark Jenkins, JR , Os Gemeos , Mirko Reisser (DAIM ), Swoon, Zezao " 
15. ^ Street Art. Artists. (No longer available online.) REINKINGPROJEKTE, 2011, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; accessed on June 23, 2013 (German / English). 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.  
16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 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. 
17. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 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.