Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Five Colums by Finlay for the sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum
Concrete poetry (1975), in the garden of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart

Ian Hamilton Finlay , CBE (born October 28, 1925 in Nassau , Bahamas , † March 27, 2006 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and horticulturalist .

Life

Finlay, who went to school in Scotland , was brought to the Orkney Islands when the Second World War broke out when he was thirteen . In 1942 he joined the British Army . He briefly attended the Glasgow School of Art .

After the war, Finlay first worked as a shepherd, but then began writing short stories and poetry. He published his first books The Sea Bed and Other Stories in 1958 and The Dancers Inherit the Party in 1960. Various works were broadcast on the BBC .

In 1963 Finlay published his first collection of poems, Rapel , which established his fame. He published most of his work in his own publishing house, Wild Hawthorn Press . He also wrote poems on stones, so-called one-word poems, which he inserted into the landscape and garden like intelligent captions and subtle comments.

Such marked stones are also exhibited in his “little Sparta” in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, the garden of the house in which he has lived since 1966. The garden with an area of ​​1.5 hectares is more like a park or - based on the Dessau-Wörlitz garden realm - a garden realm. It contains sculptures and temples in the neo-classical style. In December 2004, fifty artists, gallery owners and art experts voted Little Sparta as “the nation's greatest work of art”.

A little Sparta- like garden, Fleur de l'Air, was designed by Finlay in the middle of an old terraced olive plantation in Provence, France, and is not open to the public.

In 1975 in Stuttgart-Büsnau with Ian Hamilton Finlay's seven-station installation Concrete Poetry, the first system on mainland Europe was created.

In 1985 Finlay was nominated for the Turner Prize . At documenta 8 , 1987 in Kassel, he was represented with an outdoor installation, a street made of bronze guillotines .

A forest park created in 1995 on the occasion of the state horticultural show in Grevenbroich , which was renamed Ian-Hamilton-Finley-Park in 2014, illustrates the contrast between civilization and nature.

In 2002, the artist participated with the Bank sculpture Bugatti Bench on Kunstweg human traces in the Neandertal .

Ian Hamilton Finlay died in 2006 of complications from a stroke in a retirement home.

Exhibitions

gallery

  • Concrete poetry (Station I), 1975, Stuttgart-Büsnau

  • Concrete Poetry (Station V), 1975, Stuttgart-Büsnau

  • Grove of Silence , 1986, Forest of Dean

  • A View To The Temple , 1987, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl

  • Untitled , Middelheim Museum , Antwerp

  • Bugatti-Bench , Neanderthal Museum

  • Sculpture Fructidor by Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Fructidor , 1994, in the exhibition East of Eden , Museum Schloss Mosigkau

literature

  • Yves Abrioux: Ian Hamilton Finlay. A visual primer. London 1992.
  • Loneliness and renunciation. Ian Hamilton Finlay. Two gardens. Edited by Pia Simig, with photographs by Sam Rebben. Heidelberg and Berlin 2010.
  • Udo Weilacher: Poetry in the untamed wilderness - Ian Hamilton Finlay. (Interview). In: Udo Weilacher: Between landscape architecture and land art. Basel Berlin Boston 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6120-4 .
  • Udo Weilacher: A garden realm as a space for political experience. Little Sparta in Stonypath. In: Udo Weilacher: In gardens. Profiles of current European landscape architecture. Basel Berlin Boston 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7084-X .
  • Felix Zdenek, Pia Simig: Ian Hamilton Finlay. Works in Europe 1972-1995. Works in Europe. Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1995.
  • Rosemarie E. Pahlke, Pia Simig: Ian Hamilton Finlay: Prints 1963–1997. Printmaking. Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-341-X .

Web links

Commons : Ian Hamilton Finlay  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Martell: Little Sparta goes a long way in poll on Scotland's greatest art. In: Scotland on Sunday. The Scotsman, December 5, 2004, archived from the original on May 3, 2005 ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Fleur de l'Air. A garden in Provence by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Introduction by John Dixon Hunt (PDF). In: Pia Maria Simig (Ed.): Fleur de l'Air. A Garden in Provence by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Wild Hawthorn Press, Dunsyre, Carnwath, Lanark 2004, ISBN 0-9548192-1-7 .
  3. ^ Ian Hamilton Finlay: Garden of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 1975. Project description on Stuttgart.de.
  4. ^ Ian Hamilton Finlay Park. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 226 .
  6. ^ Artwork from the Marl Sculpture Park on TV. Description of the work in a news article from the city of Marl, November 25, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Finlay, Ian Hamilton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassau , Bahamas
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2006
Place of death Edinburgh , Scotland