Agnes Denes

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The Living Pyramid , documenta 14, Kassel

Agnes Denes (born May 31, 1938 in Budapest , Hungary ) is an American artist. The concept artist researches sciences and translates her observations into fine art. Denes is a pioneer of land art .

education

Agnes Denes first studied in Sweden. Then from 1959 to 1963 at the New School for Social Research in New York City and from 1961 to 1962 at City College in New York. From 1964 to 1966 she was a lecturer at Columbia University .

Teaching

From 1974 to 1979 Agnes Denes was a lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1976 she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 1979 at the School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan . In 1978 she received the Berlin scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 1980 she was a Fellow of the Center of Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and then a Resident Fellow / Visiting Artist at the Courrant Institute at New York University . In 1986 she was a professor at the University of Genoa . In 1988 she held the Environmental Arts Workshop at the Art School in Hartford and in 1991 taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1994 she was a Resident Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . Denes received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Ripon College in Wisconsin (USA) in 1994 . In 1997 she held a seminar as part of the Summer Academy in Salzburg . From 1997 to 1998 she was visiting professor at the American Academy in Rome and was awarded the Rome Prize.

Artistic work

Agnes Denes is a pioneer in ecological art. To address cultural, social and environmental issues, she combines art with science, mathematics, philosophy and language. Due to these combinations and the visualization of ideas as visions of the universe, Agnes Denes drawings are also equated with Leonardo da Vinci's drawings. In early works such as Haiku Poetry Burial , Rice Planing and Tree Chaining from 1968 in Sullivan County in New York, she worked with metaphors of growth and change. In projects to complain about destroyed landscapes such as Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule from 1996 in the Pinziö gravel pit in Ylöjärvi in Finland , this finds a tangible expression, coordinated with a long-term effect of 400 years. With Stelae - Messages from Another Time - Discoveries of Mind and Peoples from 1986 in Genoa , she reversed the concept of time. A marble plaque allegedly excavated in 6000, 4000 years old, i.e. from 2000, with the representation of scientific achievements is offered to today's mankind to give them a second chance to assess their knowledge and value system. The work In Wheatfield - A Confrontation from 1982 in Battery Park Landfill , New York, finds the juxtaposition of agricultural land and urban space through the planting and harvesting of a wheat field on the excavated foundations of the World Trade Center in Manhattan . In similar contracts for the design of landfills as on the North Waterfront Park Master Plan from 1991 in Berkeley , she also integrated nature reserves that Agnes Denes z. Sometimes directly confronted with art and high-tech objects. Artistically similar, Agnes Denes works in her Circle of Megaliths with Sundial from 1990 in Columbus , Ohio at the International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals . Agnes Denes uses a variety of techniques and materials in her work. a. Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, poetry and music, but also environmental noises. In 2017 Agnes Denes created the sculpture The Living Pyramid for documenta 14 in Kassel's Nordpark . The planting was given away at the end of the art exhibition.

Denes u. a. at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York.

Denes lives in New York City .

Country type works

  • "Rice / Tree / Burial - The Time Capsule", 1977-1979, Artpark Lewiston, New York, USA
  • "Wheatfield - A Confrontation" (1982) - an approx. 8000 m² wheat field in downtown Manhattan, New York, USA
  • "Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule" (1996) in Ylöjärvi, Finland
  • "Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie" (2000)
  • The Living Pyramid (2015/2017), New York / Kassel

Awards

  • 1975 to 1976 International Women's Arts Festival scholarship
  • 1982 Ann and Donald McPhail Award from the Print Club, Philadelphia
  • 1990 Eugene McDermott Achievement Award
  • 1999 Watson Award for Transdisciplinary Achievement in the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University

Exhibitions

  • 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
  • 1978: Biennale di Venezia , Venice
  • 1980: Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 1992: Hot / Cold Earthship with Heartbeat, Helsinki
  • 1992: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere
  • 2001: Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2017: documenta 14 , Athens, Kassel

literature

  • Master of drawing. Denes ...; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, June 11, 82 - October 31, 82; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne , December 1, 82 - January 31, 83 [Ed .: Kunsthalle Nürnberg. Catalog: Red. Gerlinde Gabriel ... Transl. Annette Schirer. Text contributions by Bernhard Kerber ... as well as statements by the artist Agnes Denes ...]. Kunsthalle, Nuremberg 1982
  • Exhibition brochure for the exhibition "Art for the Third Millennium - creating a New World View (September 26 - December 7, 2008, Budapest, Hungary)

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personal data
SURNAME Denes, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest