Chris Newman

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Chris Newman (born October 19, 1958 in London ; actually Christopher Newman ) is a British composer , painter , author and performance artist living in Berlin .

life and work

Chris Newman is an experimental crossover between the fields of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. He studied at King's College in London from 1976 to 1979 and graduated with a Bachelor of Music . During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and began to translate Russian poems ( Ossip Mandelstam , Velimir Chlebnikow ) into English - the translation process from one medium to another was to become decisive for his further work. She has been writing her own poems since 1979. 1980 Newman moved to Cologne to attend the Cologne University of Music in Mauricio Kagel study. In 1982 he first appeared in public with his own songs. In 1983 he founded the rock group Janet Smith and an ensemble to which Michael Riessler and Manos Tsangaris belonged (record in the Theater am Turm , Frankfurt). In 1984 he met Morton Feldman . There were performances and video films ( Institute of Contemporary Arts , London; Kölnischer Kunstverein; Cooper Union , New York). From 1985 to 1987 he realized performance-like rock videos , later joint appearances and exhibitions with Al Hansen and Emmett Williams as well as recordings with Helmut Zerlett .

In 1989 Chris Newman began to paint, and since 1994 he has been creating installations that combine two different media (installed concerts / live installations); In recent times he has increasingly presented his paintings as sculptures and installations, cutting up the canvases and stitching them together in a staggered manner. Newman has been composing concerts and music performances for festivals and radio productions as well as orchestral commissioned works since the early 1980s. You were u. a. in the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , Düsseldorf (1994), in the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin, (1999) in the Diözesan-Museum, Cologne, in the Donaueschinger Musiktage , Limelight Kortrjk, in the Musée d'Art Moderne, Strasburg, Arp -Museum Rolandseck and in the Goethe-Institut Budapest to hear and see. His paintings and drawings are represented in the Kolumba Museum , Cologne, the Neues Museum, Nuremberg , or the Neues Museum Weserburg , Bremen. Newman published numerous books of poetry and prose and some CDs. After an initial phase in Cologne, he lived in Paris, London, Cologne again and now in Berlin. In 2001/2002 he taught as a professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy . As a composer, Newman wrote songs, choral works, sonatas, piano pieces, seven symphonies and two piano concertos, the most recent of which, Piano concerto No. 2 - Part 2 , premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 2006.

Publications

  • Life Is Left: Poems 2017-2018. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-00059-299-7 .
  • In Memory of the Living and the Dead / In Memory of the Living and the Dead 2014
  • Itself with It 2012, ISBN 978-3-89770-421-3 .
  • Drawing strings & writing thing. Edited by Gerhard Theewen. Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89770-257-6 .
  • Godded. Edited by Reiner Speck and Gerhard Theewen. Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-932189-44-2 .
  • Ibsen's Ghosts. Text book on the occasion of the performance on November 28, 1996 in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89770-163-4 .
  • The 90's and Notebooks. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89770-082-4 .
  • Recent Painting Mates. Exhibition catalog Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin 1999.
  • Me in a no-time state. Exhibition catalog Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Cologne, 1996.
  • Norbert Prangenberg drawings / Chris Newman poems. Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-928989-07-3 .
  • Integrated Blake Phrase Paintings. Exhibition catalog Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-9802858-2-0 .
  • It with Itself. Exhibition catalog. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1994.
  • Eugene Dubnov. Poems 1979–1990. Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-9803151-1-8 .
  • with Norbert Prangenberg: Paintings. Exhibition catalog Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-9802858-0-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Newman, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newman, Christopher (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer, painter, author and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London