David Askevold

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David Askevold (born March 30, 1940 in Conrad Montana , † January 23, 2008 in Halifax ) was an American - Canadian concept and video artist and art professor .

life and work

Askevold was born in 1940 in Montana and studied anthropology and art at the city's university . To pay for his studies, he sold landscape paintings and pottery for his fellow students in his shop . In his early years he was strongly influenced by Kandinski's writing: About the Spiritual in Art. Especially in painting . Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were his preferred painters.

As a Max Beckmann scholarship holder for painting studied at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York in 1963 . Until 1966 he lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan , where he worked for several years in the bookstore of the Museum of Modern Art . During this time he got to know the works of Ad Reinhardt , Donald Judd , Andy Warhol , James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg . In 1968 he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in the subjects of drawing , painting and sculpture .

During a sabbatical year from 1972 to 1973 he visited Europe, especially England , where he made contact with numerous gallery owners with the help of the Dutch concept artist Jan Dibbets . In 1974 he gave up teaching at NSCAD and then moved to Boutiliers Point , Nova Scotia .

Between 1976 and 1980 Askevold was appointed to teaching at various universities. These include the University of California, Irvine , the California Institute of the Arts , the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 1973 he taught at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) , initially as a substitute for John Baldessari , then from 1977 to 1978 as a lecturer . In 1982 he moved back to New York and in 1985 taught at the Madison Media Institute in Minneapolis . There, in collaboration with students, he produced his only music video, Makes No Sense at All & Love is All Around, with two songs by the alternative / punk band from Minneapolis / Saint Paul called Hüsker Dü .

Since 1990 he has produced a large number of new works , also thanks to the influence of his new partner Norma Ready .

His main means of expression in his early work phase is video. In this way, he combines drawing, photography and text into one installation in the exhibition situations .

Projects Classes

While teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1968 to 1974, David Askevold developed the Projects Classes :

Conceptual artists based in New York sent Askevold an invitation to send him written assignments for his students. This invitation was accepted by: Lawrence Weiner , Robert Smithson , Lucy Lippard , Joseph Kosuth , Mel Bochner and Sol LeWitt .

Sol LeWitt presented the artist class with a to-do list . a. was called:

  1. A work that works with the idea of ​​error.
  2. A work that works with the idea of ​​incompleteness.
  3. A work that works with the idea of ​​infinity.

Videos (selection)

  • 1995 Don't Eat Crow
  • 1993 Once Upon a Time in the East
  • 1986-1987 ¼ Moon
  • 1982 Rhea
  • 1977 Bliss DF2
  • 1972 Learning about Cars and Chocolates
  • 1970 Fill

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East David Diviney 2011 ISBN 9780864926593
  • Jan Peacock , Corpus Loquendi Body for Speaking . Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994
  • Frederick M. Dolan and Peggy Gale . David Askevold. Eindhoven: The Van Abbe Museum, 1981
  • Alan Sondheim , ed. Post Movement Art in America Dutton Books. New York, New York. 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nettime mailing list archives Alan Sondheim via David Askevold accessed on July 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ Ian Murray artnet accessed July 7, 2013
  3. ↑ Interview with Norma Ready, 2012 accessed on July 7, 2013 (English)
  4. ↑ Cliff Eyland David Askevold cultural geographies and other works accessed on July 7, 2013 (English)
  5. ↑ Love Mansion, Canadian photographic portfolio society David Askevold ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on July 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cppsonline.com
  6. ^ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on July 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca
  7. ↑ Photography of the Invisible , the joint work Poltergeist by Mike Kelley and David Askevold Museum Abteiberg , accessed on July 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ Muse Extracts : David Askevold accessed on July 7, 2013 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Askevold, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Askevold, David Marius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian concept and video artist and art professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Conrad
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2008
Place of death Halifax