Jack Goldstein

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Jack Goldstein (born September 27, 1945 in Montreal , Canada , † March 14, 2003 in San Bernardino , California ) was an American concept and performance artist . He lived and worked in California and New York .

life and work

Goldstein grew up in difficult circumstances in Canada. He received his education first at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles . He then studied at the newly opened California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he enrolled with John Baldessari and his “post-studio arts”. In 1972 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA).

Originally coming from minimalism , he developed his performance art in the 1970s - experimental films and audio productions. In the constant change of location between Los Angeles and New York, he became the focus of the so-called Pictures Group . In 1976 the first " records " were made, which Goldstein used both as traditional art objects and as sound carriers. The first work, A Suite of Nine 7-inch Records, consisted of nine colored vinyl records , which were recorded with sound material from commercial archives. In 1978 he shot his 16 mm color silent film "The Jump" consisting of short sequences. In 1977 Goldstein took part in the “Pictures” exhibition organized by the art theorist Douglas Crimp in New York's Artists Space . With his colleagues Sherrie Levine and Roberto Longo, he set himself apart from both Pop Art and Minimalism, they were considered to represent a new generation of artists.

This group of artists, among them in addition to Goldstein z. B. Robert Longo , Troy Brauntuch and Phillip Smith contributed significantly to the following boom in the 1980s. Goldstein himself soon switched to making paintings and became known for his salon paintings . He had them mostly carried out by technically trained assistants. His paintings, which were out to capture the “sensational moment”, were all based on existing photographs of natural phenomena, images of war, natural disasters or astronomical recordings. For the group around Goldstein, the name CalArtsMafia spread in New York , based on their old joint school, the California Institute of the Arts. The artists helped themselves to “get their feet in the doors of galleries”.

Goldstein left New York in the early 1990s and returned to California, where he spent the subsequent years in relative isolation. He had previously lived on a farm in Chicago for a short time and had to spend two months in a mental institution. A borderline disorder was also diagnosed there. In the last few years Goldstein has concentrated more on text work.

Eleven days after completing his autobiography, he committed suicide in a San Bernardino apartment.

Goldstein was represented with films and paintings at Documenta 7 in Kassel , organized by Rudi Fuchs . He began his aphoristic catalog contribution with the sentence "Media is sensational". At Documenta 8 in 1987, audio samples from him could be heard in the audio library as “Acoustic Poetry”.

Exhibitions

Autobiography

  • Richard Hertz, Jack Goldstein, Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia , Minneola Press, 2003, ISBN 0-96401654-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Ross, The aesthetics of disengagement: contemporary art and depression , University of Minnesota Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-81664539-8 , pp. 9 ff.
  2. ^ David Halle, New York & Los Angeles: politics, society, and culture. A comparative view, University of Chicago Press, 2003, ISBN 0-22631370-0 , p. 408
  3. ↑ Aesthetics of Disappearance in FAZ of September 28, 2009, page B3
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2003
Place of death San Bernardino (California)