Ian Burn

Ian Burn (born December 29, 1939 in Geelong , Australia ; † September 29, 1993 in Milton , Australia) was an Australian conceptual artist , author and journalist and former member of the Art & Language group .

life and work

Ian Burn attended the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne . He worked as a carpenter for five years. He left Australia in 1964. From 1965 to 1967 he lived in London .

Ian Burn was with Mel Ramsden co-founder of Art Press and the Society for Arts and Theoretical Analysis in New York City ( The Society for Theoretical kind and Analysis ) in the year 1969th

Ian Burn had his first solo exhibition “ performatif narratif piece ” in November 1971 at the Daniel Templon gallery in Paris .

Burn became a member of the artist group Art & Language in 1971 and remained so until the mid-1970s. He then returned to Australia with Terry Smith , also a former member of Art & Language, where they and Ian Milliss , a conceptual artist, started a design studio specializing in social marketing in cooperation with the unions. and to develop community and trade union law as an art initiative. From 1977 he taught at the University of Sydney .

After 1981 he worked as a journalist for Union Media Services in Sydney, writing on cultural and social topics.

As a member of Art & Language, Ian Burn was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the “Index 0001” project in the Idea + Idea / Light department , together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson , Michael Baldwin , David Bainbridge , Charles Harrison , Harold Hurrell , Mel Ramsden and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth . He was also represented at Documenta 6 in 1977 with Art & Language .

His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the Art Gallery of New South Wales , among others .

Literature and Sources

Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
Marzona, Daniel: Conceptual Art; Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-8228-2959-5

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personal data
SURNAME	Burn, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geelong , Australia
DATE OF DEATH	29th September 1993
Place of death	Milton , Australia