Alan Sonfist

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Alan Sonfist (* 1946 in New York City ) is an American painter, photographer, and land art artist.

life and work

Alan Sonfist grew up in the South Bronx and was fascinated as a child by an ancient hemlock forest that was not far from his home. Sonfist began studying at the Art Students League of New York in 1963 . The following year he moved to the Western Illinois University , to where agriculture to study. At Ohio State University he studied briefly with Hoyt L. Sherman before returning to New York in 1965, where he enrolled at the Pratt Institute . He did his master's degree in 1969 at Hunter College in New York.

Sonfist drew, developed works with resin on canvas and photographed the traces of nature in the city. Alan Sonfist exhibited the pictorial poem Autobiography of Henglock Forest at documenta 6 .

As early as 1965 Sonfist had the plan to realize a living monument, the Time Landscape project. In 1978 in Greenwich Village, between the northeast corner of La Guardia Place and western Houston Street , the park was built, modeled on the Manhattan vegetation at the time of the first Dutch settlers in the early 17th century.

The Monument of the Lost Falcon (also called The Falcon ) by Sonfist has been on view on the Wittgenstein – Sauerland forest sculpture trail between Bad Berleburg and Schmallenberg since 2000 .

The work Disappearing Forest of Germany was exhibited in the sculpture park in Cologne from 2009 to 2011 .

literature

  • Nature: The End of Art. By Alan Sonfist and Robert Rosenblum, Gli Ori Publishers 2004 ISBN 0-615-12533-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. museums platform nrw Alan Sonfist ( Memento of the original from February 18, 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. , accessed December 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrw-museum.de
  2. Ann Landi, artnews Separating the trees from the forest, accessed on December 23, 2014 (English)
  3. ^ New York City Greenstreet website , Time Landscape , accessed December 23, 2014
  4. ^ NRW sculpture The Monument of the Lost Falkon / The Monument of the Lost Falcon , accessed on December 23, 2014