John Fekner

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Charlotte Street, New York City, 1980.
Charlotte Street, New York City, John Fekner, August, 1980.
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John Fekner (* 1950 in New York City ) is an American multimedia artist , composer and photographer . He designed hundreds of environmental and conceptual graphics consisting of stencilled words and symbols in the United States , Germany , Sweden , Canada and England under the stars. As a pioneer in the street art movement, Fekner painted the words "Itchycoo Park" in large, white letters in 1968 on an empty building in Gorman Park , New York City. During an art project in 2012, John Fekner made a self-portrait in the form of a lettering: "He Was Simply A Guy Who Painted Messages In The Street."

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John Fekner can look back on a wide range of works that he has created during his professional career and that may seem insignificant at first glance. He is an artist who sets everything in motion that seems important to him to convey a vision or message and whose work changes continuously as his vision grows. Fekner's interests range from general concepts of perception and change to specific ecological and sociological issues such as urban decay , poverty , education , toxic chemicals , advertising , mass media , clergy and the history of Native Americans . There are now also projects that have been specially created for the Internet. Fekner's works include paintings , sculptures , computer-generated video and audio works as well as various online projects. He is known for more than three hundred "ecological / conceptual" works, which are composed of dates, words, symbols , templates and outdoor works. Many of John Fekner's works, especially the stencils, were created in cooperation with other artists. In New York, for example, he worked with Don Leicht. John Fekner worked on another project with DAZE and in Berlin.

literature

  • Lucy Lippard : The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society. The New Press, New York 1997, ISBN 1-56584-247-2 .
  • Alison Young: Street Art, Public City-Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination. New York, 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-53869-5 .
  • Jay Edlin: Graffiti 365. Abrams Books, NY 2011, ISBN 978-0-8109-9744-8 .
  • Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman, Aaron Rose : Art in the Streets. Skira Rizzoli, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8478-3648-2 .
  • Johannes Stahl: On the wall, graffiti between anarchy and gallery. Dumont paperbacks, 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2363-8 .
  • Julie Ault: Alternative Art, New York, 1965–1985 . University of Minnesota Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8166-3794-6 .
  • Lewisohn Cedar: Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution. Tate Museum, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85437-767-8 .
  • Lucy Lippard: Get The Message-A Decade Of Social Change. Penguin, 1985, ISBN 0-525-24256-2 .
  • Lynn Gumpert: New Work New York at the New Museum . Exhibition catalog essay, January 30 - March 25, 1982, pp. 12-15.
  • Marvin J. Taylor, Lynn Gumpert: The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984. Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12286-5 .
  • Russell Howze: Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art, Manic D Press. San Francisco, CA 2008, ISBN 978-1-933149-22-6 .
  • Stéphanie Lemoine: L'art urbain. Gallimard, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-07-044582-0 .

Discography

John Fekner City Squad , - Idioblast 1984, LP
John Fekner City Squad , Cassette Gazette , 1985, audio cassette book front and back covers
JOHN FEKNER CITY SQUAD year format VINYL GRIDLOCK RECORDS 33 1 | 3 rpm
LP EP
2 4 5 7 9 11 / Rock Steady (ASCAP) 1983 ♦ VG # 10538/10539
Idioblast 8 songs (ASCAP) 1984 ♦ VG # 10541-A / 10542-B
Another 4 years 1984 VG # 10555 Flexidisc
Cassette Gazette 9 songs (Same as Idioblast plus EZ Gee Jammin) 1985 Audio cassette / photography book. 62 pages. Produced by Fran Kuzui , Published by B-Sellers, Japan
I Get Paid To Clap (ASCAP) 1985 VG # 10569 Flexidisc Released in " Between C&D " Magazine, NYC
Concrete People (ASCAP) 1986 ♦ VG # 33331/44442
The Beat (89 Remix) 1989 VG # 678 Flexidisc
When The Future Collides With History 1989 VG # 679 Unreleased-Video soundtrack only.
Oil Drum Mix (ASCAP) 1999 Listed as Final Concerto Oil Drum Mix on David Wojnarowicz - Optic Nerve (CD-ROM) . Produced by the Red Hot Organization .
LPEPMP3 Selections (ASCAP) 2008 13 track album release as mp3 available on iTunes Plus .
Another 4 Years (Edit / Elect08) 2008 mp3 available on iTunes

gallery

Web links

Commons : John Fekner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Fekner: Research Archive »Blog Archive» He Was Simply A Guy Who Painted Messages In The Street. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  2. ^ Johannes Stahl: On the wall, graffiti between anarchy and gallery . Cologne, 1989, p. 170-176 .
  3. ^ Nuclear Intrusions | Don Easy. Retrieved April 2, 2017 (American English).
  4. ^ Anke Kuhrmann, Doris Liebermann, Annette Dorgerloh: The Berlin Wall in Art: Fine Art, Literature and Film . Berlin October 2011, p. 162 .
personal data
SURNAME Fekner, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist, composer, and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City