David Salle

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David Salle (born September 28, 1952 in Norman , Oklahoma ) is an American artist who works with the media of painting and printmaking and as a set designer .

life and work

David Salle graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1975 with an MFA . There he studied under John Baldessari . In his early work from the time of his studies Salle deals with video art and photography. He creates connections between photos and text. In the mid-1970s, Salle turned to painting and began to gain public interest for the first time in the 1980s.

Salle's painting of the 1980s can be classified as appropriation art : his work is characterized by numerous citations and acquisitions. He makes use of the art world as well as popular images from the mass media. Salle often depicts stereotypes. For example, Salle repeatedly uses photos from soft pornographic magazines and the daily press as a template. This combination of different motifs and the mixing of different styles, as well as the frequent lack of a clear picture order, often make the interpretation of Salle's paintings difficult. Salle can be described as a postmodern artist due to his quoting way of working and the use of well-known pictorial motifs .

David Salle is also involved in stage and costume design , and has designed many sets for the choreographer Karole Armitage . In 1995 he made the movie The Moviemaker , starring Griffin Dunne , Ethan Hawke , Dennis Hopper , John Turturro and Christopher Walken .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions have been at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City , the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , the Castello di Rivoli Turin , the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , the documenta 7 in Kassel and the Kestnergesellschaft shown in Hanover.

Awards

literature

  • Elanor Heartney: Postmodern. Ostfildern-Ruit 2002.
  • Charles Jencks: Postmodernism. The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. Stuttgart 1987.
  • Rüdiger Kögel: David Salle: Painting .. A meta-approach based on art history. Hamburg 1997.
  • Veit Görner (Ed.): David Salle - Distance from Nirgendwo, distance from nowhere. on the occasion of the exhibition David Salle - Distance from Nowhere, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, March 20 - June 21, 2009. Heidelberg 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberta Smith: Tweaking Tradition, Even in Its Temple. on: nytimes.com , October 21, 2010.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Kögel: David Salle: Painting. An art-historical meta-approach. Hamburg 1997, p. 60.
  3. ^ Charles Jencks: The Postmodern. The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. Stuttgart 1987, p. 82.
  4. ^ Adam Brooks: Art and Sole. Interview. September 1989, pp. 88-94.
  5. ↑ IMDb
  6. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Academicians Elected in 2015 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 November 21, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  7. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Salle, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Norman , Oklahoma