Damian Le Bas

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Damian Le Bas (born January 5, 1963 in Sheffield , † December 9, 2017 in Worthing , West Sussex ) was a British artist .

Life

Damian Le Bas is descended from Huguenots and Irish travelers . He studied Fine Arts at the Royal College in London . Le Bas' works were partly assigned to the "Art Brut" or Outsider Art .

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Le Bas preferred to make collages. For this purpose, he mainly used maps and city plans, which he painted over with faces, countless, oversized eyes and figures and populated them with small caravans - a reminiscence of his Traveler affiliation.

He worked closely with his wife Delaine Le Bas , who is also a renowned artist. This was most recently the case in June 2013 with the joint installation “Safe European Home?” In front of the Hungarian cultural institute .CHB in Berlin .

Damian Le Bas' work has been exhibited in England, Japan, Germany, Hungary, France and the USA. He was represented at the third Prague Biennale in 2007 and at “Paradise Lost”, the first pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale with contemporary art by the Sinti and Roma.

The hidden stage set, which he and his wife created for Yael Ronen 's play Roma Army , which premiered in the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2017 , received great critical acclaim.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Save European Home? An installation by Delaine & Damian Le Bas, .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • Gypsy Revolution, Delaine Le Bas & Damian Le Bas, Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki , Finland 2012
  • Gypsy Revolution, Delaine Le Bas & Damian Le Bas, Museum of East Anglian Life, Suffolk, UK, 2012
  • Safe European Home? Vienna , Austria (cat.), 2011
  • We are beggars, Graz City Museum, Graz , Austria, 2011
  • Ministry Of Education Warning: Segregation Harms You And Others Around You, Prague , Czech Republic, 2011
  • The World In A Few Steps, Association For Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria, 2010
  • Stardust Boogie Woogie, A Monika Bobinska Project, London, UK, 2010
  • Whose Map Is It? New Mapping By Artists, INIVA, London, UK, 2010
  • Inside, Outside and The Spaces In Between, Kunstraum Next Andra, Graz, Austria, 2010
  • Foreigners Everywhere, T293, Naples , Italy, 2010
  • If Not Now, Trafo Gallery, Budapest , Hungary, 2010
  • Wie Du Mir, Graz, Austria, 2008
  • Paradise Lost, works from the first Roma Pavilion, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels , 2008
  • Typical! Clichés Of Jews And Others, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2008
  • Paradise Lost, works from the first Roma pavilion, Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS, Hamburg , Germany, 2007
  • Paradise Lost, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.), 2007
  • Refusing Exclusion, Prague Biennale 3, Prague (cat.), 2007
  • International Festival d'Art Singulier, Roquevaire, France, 2006
  • The Tail That Wags The Dog, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin , Ireland, 2003
  • International Festival d'Art Singulier 2002, Roquevaire, France, 2002
  • The Art of War and Peace: Toward an end to Hatred, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore , USA, 2002
  • Elvision 2000, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago , 2000
  • Art Unsolved: The Musgrave Kinley Collection of Outsider Art, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 1998
  • Error and Eros: Love Profane and Divine, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA, 1998

literature

  • Damian Le Bas, Thomas Acton: All Change. Romani Studies Through Romani Eyes. University Of Hertfordshire Press, Herfortshire 2010.
  • "Art Reclaims Foreign Affairs". Magazine Released on the Occasion of the International Conference 'New Paradigms, New Models - Culture in the EU External Relations' held in Ljubljana, May 13th - 14th, 2008.
  • Moritz Pankok (ed.): Place of seeing 2. With a foreword by Ceija Stojka and an introductory text by André J. Raatzsch. Edition Braus, 2012.

Web links

  • Thomas Acton: Damian Le Bas GB. Paradise Lost: The First Roma Pavilion; 52nd Biennale di Venezia, archived from the original on February 18, 2012 ; accessed on December 11, 2017 .
  • Thomas Acton: Damian Le Bas . 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007, website “Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art”
  • Damian Le Bas . Website of the Kai Dikhas Gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ British artist: Damian Le Bas is dead . In: Der Spiegel , December 11, 2017, accessed on December 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Start of the season at the Maxim Gorki Theater: Don't tell me who I am. In: tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Le Bas, Damian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2017
Place of death Worthing ( West Sussex )