John Hilliard

John Hilliard (born March 29, 1945 in Lancaster , England ) is a conceptual artist . His works are classified as Concrete Photography .

Career

Hilliard studied at Lancaster College of Art from 1962 to 1964 and continued his studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London until 1967 . While studying sculpture, he began to photographically document his sculptures, temporary installations and performances in order to then focus his attention on the specific possibilities of the medium of photography , work in the photo laboratory and exposure .

In the Netherlands, Hilliard taught at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam . In England he was a professor at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Chelsea College of Art and Design . He was later named professor at the Slade School of Fine Art and director of the graduate program there .

Hilliard has been retired since 2010 . He lives and works in London.

To the work

In 1971 he wrote Camera Recording Its Own Condition (7 Apertures, 10 Speeds, 2 Mirrors) . Individual photographs that are photographed in a mirror and presented as a square hanging. The triggering camera becomes the subject of the picture . The 70 photographs always show the same image section, but were photographed with different shutter speeds , f-numbers and exposure , which resulted in divergent results.

With the work Cause of Death from 1974 Hilliard shows photographs of a body covered with a cloth, which he gives various titles. "Crushed / Broken", "Drowned / Drowned", "Burned / Verbrannt", and "Fell / Niedergestrecked". Although the photos have a documentary character, the content is changed by adding different titles. The camera can't lie, but it tells different truths.

December Water from 1976 is a triptych consisting of three photos . The photos are taken from the same point of view and have the same motif. The focus is different . The focus is placed on the foreground, middle ground or background.

In later works Hilliard works with multiple exposures and rotations of the subject. He addresses lighting and standards.

Awards (selection)

• 1965 travel grant to the USA
• 1976–1978 Northern Arts Fellow in Visual Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
• 1986 David Octavius ​​Hill Medal from the German Photographic Academy

Exhibitions

Hilliard is represented by the ARTRA gallery in Milan, the Richard Saltoun Gallery in London, the gallery Raum mit Licht in Vienna and the LA gallery in Frankfurt am Main.

He had numerous solo exhibitions and took part in documenta 6 .

literature

• Karl Manfred Fischer, Lisa Puyplat (Ed.): John Hilliard: The Less Said The Better / Talking is silver, silence is gold. Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-88423-207-X .

Web links

• Source - John Hilliard - Talks about the Evolution of his Work, His Working Methods and the Difference between Photographs Made by Photographers and Those Made by Artists
• Literature by and about John Hilliard in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Hilliard . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg May 1987, ART lexicon of contemporary artists, p. 92 .
2. ↑ British Council John Hilliard ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2014 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 September 14, 2014 (English) 
3. ↑ Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds Live Stories John Hilliard - interviewd by Victoria Worsley accessed on September 14, 2014.
4. ↑ artdailyː Solo exhibition of British conceptual artist John Hilliard opens at Richard Saltoun Gallery , accessed on September 14, 2014 (English).
5. Jump up ↑ Gallery space with light inversions of lighting position and proportion - John Hilliard , accessed September 14, 2014.
6. ↑ ARTRA Gallery Milanoː John Hilliard ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2014 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 September 14, 2014 (English) 
7. ↑ LAGallerie John Hilliard , accessed on September 14, 2014.