Juan Downey
Juan Downey (born May 11, 1940 in Santiago de Chile , † June 9, 1993 in New York City ) was a Chilean - American video artist and illustrator.
life and work
Juan Downey was born in Santiago de Chile in 1940. He completed a degree in architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University in 1961 with a bachelor's degree . In 1963 he went to Paris for two years, where he learned engraving techniques in Hayter's Atelier 17 on Rue Daguerre . In 1965 he moved to New York City and studied at the Pratt Institute , where he later also taught.
From 1971 Downey traveled regularly with a Portapak video camera, acquired in 1968, to the Yanomami who live in the Amazon , in order to “encounter one's own self in South America” and to deal with the western colonial perception of the “other”. His video series Trans Americas consists of over 30 video tapes and installations . One of them is The Laughing Alligator (1979). The Thinking Eye is a series of videos. Two videos from this series are Shifters (1984) and JS Bach (1986).
Downey also produced drawings , spiral structures reminiscent of simplified mandalas , and performances .
In 1993 Juan Downey died. With her work Mortal Coils / mortal sleeves, Carolee Schneemann commemorated her friends who died in 1993/1994.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2014 Something in the room eluded our attempts to fly over Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart , Stuttgart
- 2012 La idea de América Latina Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville
- 2003 Banquete ， Metabolism and Communication Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
- 2001 49th Biennale di Venezia , Venice, Italy
- 1999 Selección de Grabado Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago . Universidad de Chile , Santiago
- 1998 IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez retrospective , in Valencia, Spain
- 1998 New Video Acquisitions: Four Voices Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA
- 1985 18th São Paulo Biennale , São Paulo
- 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1975 IX Biennale de Paris , Paris, France
Awards
Davis has received numerous awards including a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts .
literature
- Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect by Valerie Smith, Michael Taussig , Isabel Garcia, Juan Downey, Semiotext, 2011 ISBN 978-1-58435-1-221
Web links
- Juan Downey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 335, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix Juan Downey ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 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. Retrieved February 7, 2015
- ↑ The international artist database Der Perspektivenwechseller ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 7, 2015
- ^ Arts Carolee Schneemann-Mortal Coils , accessed February 7, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Downey, Juan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean-American video artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile , Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1993 |
| Place of death | New York City , United States |