Art & Language
Art & Language (German art and language ) is a 1968 in Coventry in the UK , founded group of artists of contemporary art , dedicated to the conceptual art dedicated.
Development and work
Art & Language's first artists were Terry Atkinson (* 1939) and Michael Baldwin (* 1945), who met in 1966 as students at Coventry College of Art. Other artists quickly joined the collective , initially David Bainbridge (* 1941) and Harold Hurrell (* 1940). In 1968 the group founded Art & Language Press in Cambridge and in 1969 published the first issue of Art-Language magazine .
The group's early work and Art-Language magazine had a significant impact on the development of conceptual art in both Great Britain and the United States .
At the same time, Ian Burn , Mel Ramsden and Roger Cutforth founded the Society for Theoretical Art and Analysis in New York in the late 1960s . After the American group became aware of Art & Language in June 1969, both groups began to cooperate with each other in February 1970 and subsequently merged.
In the early 1970s Michael Corris , Charles Harrison , Preston Heller , Graham Howard , Andrew Menard , Terry Smith and, from Coventry, Philip Pilkington and David Rushton joined in with their work Art & Language.
In the course of the 1970s, Art & Language dealt with questions about the production of art and tried to shift from the classic "non-linguistic" forms of art such as painting and sculpture to more theoretically oriented works. With their research, Art & Language wanted to contribute to the demystification of art. In theoretical discourse, the group often had to grapple with the argumentative positions of prevailing views of critics such as Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried .
Because of the linguistic-analytical nature of Art & Language's work, affinities with other conceptual artists such as Joseph Kosuth or Ian Wilson , who also worked on the group for a time, arose. Also a member of the group was the American musician Mayo Thompson ( The Red Krayola , Pere Ubu ). On his initiative, the Red Krayola released an album together with Art & Language in 1976 under the name Corrected Slogans .
By the late 1970s, the group still essentially consisted of Baldwin, Harrison and Ramsden. The political analysis and political arguments had led to many members leaving the group to pursue political activism elsewhere. Ian Burn and Terry Smith returned to Australia where, together with Ian Milliss , also a conceptual artist, they started a design studio with the unions in the early 1970s specializing in social marketing and community and trade union law as an art initiative build up. Karl Beveridge and Carol Condé as peripheral members of the group in New York returned to Canada , where they too began working with the trade unions and political groups. Other British members drifted into a variety of creative, academic and sometimes "political" professions.
The Art & Language group that took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the “ Index 0001 ” project (their most extensive work) in the Idea + Idea / Light department consisted of Atkinson, Bainbridge, Baldwin, Burn, Hurrell , Ramsden, Harrison and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth. Art & Language was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977), Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta X 1997.
Since 1977 Art & Language has essentially consisted of the collaboration between Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden in Banbury , Oxfordshire . In the meantime, an extensive oeuvre has emerged, especially pictures. Most of the texts are written by Charles Harrison, who has been publishing " Art-Language " since 1971 .
In 1986 Art & Language was nominated for the Turner Prize . In 1999 Art & Language exhibited the large installation entitled “ The Artist Out of Work ” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York .
Former members of Art & Language
- Terry Atkinson
- David Bainbridge
- Ian Burn
- Sarah Charlesworth
- Michael Corris
- Preston Heller
- Graham Howard
- Harold Hurrell
- Joseph Kosuth
- Christine Kozlov
- Andrew Menard
- Philip Pilkington
- Neil Powell
- David Rushton
- Terry Smith
- Mayo Thompson
- Ian Wilson
- Kathryn Bigelow
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 1967 Hardware Show, Architectural Association, London.
- 1968 Dematerialization Show , Ikon Gallery, London.
- 1971 The Air-Conditioning Show , Visual Arts Gallery, New York.
- 1972 The Art & Language Institute , Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris .
- Documenta Memorandum , Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne.
- 1973 Index 002 Bxal , John Weber Gallery, New York.
- 1976 Music-Language , Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris.
- Art & Language , Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
- 1978 Flags for Organizations , Lisson Gallery, London.
- 1979 Ils sang donnent leur; donnez votre travail , Eric Fabre Gallery, Paris.
- 1980 Portraits of VI Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock , Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
- 1982 Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place Painted by Mouth , De Veeshal, Middelburg.
- Art & Language retrospective , Musée d'Art Moderne, Toulon .
- 1983 Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place I, II, III, IV , Gewald, Ghent.
- 1986 Confessions: Incidents in a Museum , Lisson Gallery, London.
- 1987 Art & Language: The Paintings , Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels .
- 1990 Hostages XXIV-XXXV , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
- 1993 Art & Language , Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris.
- 1995 Art & Language and Luhmann , Kunstraum, Vienna.
- 1996 Sighs Trapped by Liars , Galerie de Paris, Paris.
- 1999 Art & Language in Practice , Fundacio Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona.
- Cinco ensayos , Galerià Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
- The Artist out of Work: Art & Language 1972-1981 , PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
- 2000 Art & Language & Luhmann No.2 , ZKM, Karlsruhe.
- 2002 Too Dark to Read: Motifs Rétrospectifs , Musée d'art moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq.
- 2003 Art & Language , Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich.
- 2004 Art & Language , CAC, Málaga .
- 2005 Hard to Say When , Lisson Gallery, London.
- 2006 Il ne reste qu'à chanter , Galerie de l'Erban, Nantes (Miroirs, 1965, Karaoke, 1975-2005) and Château de la Bainerie (travaux 1965-2005), Tiercé.
- 2008 Brouillages / Blurrings , Galerie Taddeus Ropac, Paris.
- 2009 Art & Language , Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki .
- 2010 Portraits and a Dream , Lisson Gallery, London.
- Art & Language , Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago .
- 2011 Badges , Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke.
- 2013 Letters to the Red Krayola , Kadel Wilborn Gallery, Düsseldorf.
- Art & Language , Dhont-Dhaenens Museum, Deurle.
- Art & Language , Garage Cosmos, Brussels.
- 2014 Art & Language Uncompleted: The Philippe Méaille Collection , MACBA, Barcelona .
- 2016 Art & Language , Montsoreau Castle - Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau .
- Not that it is needed now , Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Zoute.
- 2018 Art & Language Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light) , Montsoreau Castle - Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau .
Group exhibitions
- 1968 Language II , Dwan Gallery, London.
- 1969 March , catalog exposition, Seth Siegelaub, New York.
- 1970 Conceptual Art And Conceptual Aspects , New York Cultural Center, New York.
- Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Idea Structures , Camden Art Center, London .
- 1971 The British Avant-Garde , New York Cultural Center, New York.
- 1972 Documenta 5 , Museum Friedericianum, Kassel.
- The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London.
- 1973 Some Early Examples of Conceptual Art of Analytical Character, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne .
- Contemporanea , Rome.
- 1974 Projekt'74 , Cologne.
- Art about art , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
- 1976 Drawing Now , Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Biennale di Venezia , Venice .
- 1979 Un Certain Art Anglais , Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris.
- 1980 Art in Europe na 68 , Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent.
- 1982 Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum , Kassel.
- 1987 British Art of the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement , Royal Academy, London.
- 1989 The Situationists International, 1957-1972 , Musée National d'art moderne, Center Pompidou, Paris.
- L'art conceptuel, une perspective , Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris ; Fundación Caja de Prensiones , Madrid; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg .
- 1992 Repetición / Transformación , Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
- 1995 Toponimías (8): ocho ideas del espacio , Fundación La Caixa, Madrid.
- Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
- 1997 Documenta 10, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.
- 1999 Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s , Queens Museum of Art, New York.
- 2002 Iconoclash , Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe.
- 2003 Biennale di Venezia , Venice .
- 2004 Before the End (The Last Painting Show) , Swiss Institute, New York.
- 2005 Collective Creativity , Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.
- 2006 Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse - Broken Lines , Toulouse.
- Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
- 2007 Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock'n Roll since 1967 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
- 2008 Vides. Une rétrospective , Musée National d'art moderne, Center Pompidou, Paris.
- 2009 Rock-Paper-Scissors, Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art , Kunsthaus, Graz.
- 2010 Algunas Obras A Ler - Collection Eric Fabre , Berardo Museum, Lisbon.
- Seconde main , Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris / ARC, Paris.
- 2011 Erre, Variations Labyrinthiques , Musée National d'art moderne, Center Pompidou-Metz, Metz.
- 2012 Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art , Brooklyn museum, New York.
- 2013 As if it could. Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation , Herbert Foundation, Ghent.
- 2014 Propanganda for Reality , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen .
- Critical Machines , American University, Beyrouth.
Literature and Sources
- Magazines
- Art Language. Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1969 - March 1985. 19 numbers. Art & Language Press, Warwickshire, UK.
- A full reprint of this first series of the magazine appeared in January 2000.
- Vol. 1: No. 1, The Journal of Conceptual Art , May 1969; No. 2, February 1970; No. 3, June 1970; No. 4, November 1971
- Vol. 2: No. 1, 1972; No. 2, summer 1972; No. 3, Sept. 1973; No. 4, 1974
- Vol. 3: No. 1, September 1974; No. 2, 1975; No. 2a, 1975; No. 3, 1976; No. 4, 1976
- Vol. 4: Nos. 1-2, 1977; No. 3, 1978; No. 4, 1980
- Vol. 5: No. 1, 1982; No. 2, March 1984; No. 3, March 1985
- Art language . New Series. Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1994.
- The Fox , Nos. 1-2, 1975; No. 3, 1976. Art & Language Foundation, New York 1975/76
- selection
- Paul Maenz, Gerd de Vries (ed.): Art & Language . DuMont, DuMont Art Practice , Cologne 1972.
- literature
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
- (documenta 10 catalog): Politics - Poetics - the book on documenta X; Kassel / Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-909-4 (German) / ISBN 3-89322-911-6 (English)
- Charles Harrison : Essays on Art & Language . Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1991. (Essays by a member, not primarily on the group)
- Marzona, Daniel: Conceptual Art ; Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-8228-2959-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Dreher: Blurting in A & L: Art & Language and Context Investigation , 2005, Online ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 1, 2007
- ↑ leftmatrix.com ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2019 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.
- ^ Art-Language / Facsimile Edition
- ^ Library catalog of the art and museum library of the city of Cologne
Web links
- Art & Language in the Mulier Gallery
- Art & Language at the Lisson Gallery
- Art & Language on kunstaspekte.de
- Materials by and about Art & Language in the documenta archive
- Thomas Dreher: Intermedia Art: Conceptual art with four texts on Art & Language and a chronology of the works shown.