Brian O'Doherty

Brian O'Doherty , longtime pseudonym Patrick Ireland , (* 1928 in County Roscommon , Ireland ) is an Irish-American conceptual artist , author , draftsman and installation artist .

alter ego

Gravestone for Patrick Ireland

Brian O'Doherty worked under a pseudonym for 36 years. In 1972 O'Doherty made public in Dublin with the performance Name Change that his stage name would henceforth be "Patrick Ireland" . From 1972 to 2008 he signed his works with the name Patrick Ireland . This was in response to Bloody Sunday in the Northern Irish town of Derry , during which more than a dozen unarmed civilians were killed by the British Army . He stated that he would not be exhibiting in England until the British troops withdrew from Northern Ireland .

When the peace process began in Ireland, O'Doherty buried his alter ego Patrick Ireland (death mask and coffin) in a symbolic act on May 20, 2008 in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and officially took his birth name Brian O'Doherty again as an artist on. The film Lament for Patrick Ireland documents the life and death of the artificial personality Patrick Ireland .

life and work

O'Doherty comes from County Roscommon, Ireland and is a Catholic denomination. He studied medicine at University College Dublin and Cambridge University . After working for a year in a hospital for cancer patients, he emigrated to the United States in 1957 and continued his studies at Harvard University , where he completed his Master of Science (M.Sc.) and exhibited at the same time before he did dedicated himself exclusively to the fine arts.

About his time at Harvard University, he says:

“I first spent a year at Harvard when I came in 1957, doing all kinds of research. I got an MSc there, but I didn't learn much. I switched from all things medical. I auditioned for a job as a television presenter at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from the Boston public television station, WGBH — TV . I would do a half hour each week from the galleries on the museum collections, also interviews with artists - Marc Chagall , Jacques Lipchitz , Josef Albers , Walter Gropius , among others ”

- Brian O'Doherty

For NBC he worked as an interviewer in the Invitation to Art program and met personalities such as Muhammad Ali , Marcel Duchamp , Woody Allen and James Baldwin . In 1961 he went to New York to write for the New York Times . In 1967 he married the art historian Barbara Novak with whom he lives in New York City and Todi .

With Morton Feldman they met for a time almost every day in the Third Avenue for lunch. At that time, Dan Graham , Mel Bochner and Eva Hesse were friends with the couple. Duchamp (1887–1968) was invited to dinner by O'Doherty, and a portrait of Duchamp (1966) was created. This portrait was u. a. from a cardiogram that recorded his heartbeat.

The performance and installation Hello Sam is a memento mori for Samuel Beckett (1906 to 1989).

With his theory on the relationship between art and space White Cube from (1976) O'Doherty made an important contribution to art history .

Exhibitions

• 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
• 2007: Beyond the White Cube , Gray Art Gallery
• 2012: Art as an Argument , Bayreuth Art Museum

Publications

• American Masters - The Voice and the Myth. Via Hopper , Davis , Pollock , De Kooning , Rothko , Rauschenberg , Wyeth and Cornell . With photographs by Hans Namuth . 1975, ISBN 978-0-87663-680-0 .
• The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.- The Strange Case of Miss P. Novelle. 1992, ISBN 0-7011-4533-1 .
• In the white cell / Inside the White Cube. Merve, 1996 ISBN 978-0-520-22040-9 .
• The Cross-dresser's Secret. Novella about the Chevalier d'Eon . (1728 to 1810)
• The Deposition of Father McGreevy. Arcadia, 2000, ISBN 978-1-885983-39-8 .
• Atelier and Gallery / Studio and Cube. Merve, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88396-276-4

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brian Boucher: Will the Real Brian O'Doherty Please Stand Up Art in America ( Memento of August 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 10, 2016 (English)
2. ↑ artforum , accessed on June 23, 2013.
3. ↑ nytimes , accessed on June 23, 2013 (English).
4. ↑ Lament for Patrick Ireland , accessed June 23, 2013.
5. ↑ Brooklynrail , accessed June 23, 2013.
6. ↑ interview Brooklynrail , accessed June 23, 2013.
7. ↑ Barbara Novak with Adrienne Baxter Bell and Phong Bui , accessed on June 23, 2013 (English).
8. ↑ Antje Stahl: Duchamp's Heart Monopoly Magazine, 2012 , accessed on June 23, 2013.
9. ↑ Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith: Frieze: Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland ( Memento of November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 23, 2013 (English)
10. ↑ Ciarán Bennett: artnet , accessed June 23, 2013 (English)
11. ↑ Brian O'Doherty: Inside the white cube Part One , accessed on June 23, 2013 (English)
12. ↑ Beyond the White Cube, Gray Art Gallery Retrospective , accessed on June 23, 2013 (English)
13. ^ Federal Cultural Foundation: Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland and American Art after 1945 ( Memento of August 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 10, 2016
14. ↑ Sebastian Frenzel, The secret reveals itself in the studio: Monopoly , accessed on June 23, 2013.