Barry Le Va
Barry Le Va (born December 28, 1941 in Long Beach , California , USA ; † January 24, 2021 ) was an American contemporary draftsman , graphic artist , sculptor and object artist .
life and work
Barry Le Va studied mathematics and architecture at California State University, Long Beach , from 1960 to 1963 , and at the Los Angeles College of Art & Design in 1963 . From 1964 to 1967 he studied art at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County.
He had his first solo exhibitions in 1969 at the University Gallery of Fine Art at Ohio State University in Columbus , at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis , Minnesota , and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In Europe, Le Va was represented and made known by Rolf Ricke (up to his gallery assignment in 2004).
From 1968 to 1970 he was a teacher at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. He lived in New York City from 1970 . From 1973 to 1974 he taught sculpture at Princeton University in New Jersey and in 1976 at Yale University .
In 1972 he participated with some of his works at Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies : Video and Processes department and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 7 in 1982.
Barry Le Va drew and created lithographs and collages from the 1960s. He was known for his magical sculptures , cult objects and large-scale installations made from a wide variety of materials. From 1987 onwards, Le Va lived for several weeks a year in Munich , where he created entire complexes of works, for example in 1992 the “African Sketchbook”, which is inspired by African masks.
Le Va died of heart failure on January 24, 2021 at the age of 79.
Prizes and awards
- 1968: Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
- 1974: Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture
- 1976: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 2000: Hugo Boss Prize
Literature and Sources
- 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 by the artists); Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
- Semff, Michael: Atlas of Artists' Travel - Barry Le Va NY - Munich - Africa , in: KUNSTFORUM International Volume 137, p. 188; Ruppichteroth 1997
- Literature by and about Barry Le Va in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Udo Kittelmann, Friedemann Malsch, Roland Wäspe: Foreword . In: Christiane Meyer-Stoll (Ed.): Rolf Ricke Collection, Rolf Ricke Collection. A document of the times . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2035-9 , p. 6-7 .
- ^ Addio a Barry Le Va: muore il pioniere della Process Art. In: exibart.com. January 25, 2021, accessed January 25, 2021 (Italian).
- ↑ Barry Le Va, pioneer of Process Art, has died, aged 79 , theartnewspaper.com, January 26, 2021
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Va, Barry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Va, Barry Le; LeVa, Barry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Long Beach , California , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2021 |