Mel Ramsden

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Mel Ramsden (* 1944 in Ilkeston , Derbyshire , Great Britain ; lives in Middleton Cheney near Banbury , England ) is a British conceptual artist and member of the Art & Language group of artists .

life and work

Mel Ramsden studied at Nottingham College of Art from 1961 to 1963, went to Australia in 1963 and studied at the National Gallery School of Victoria from 1963 to 1964. In 1967 Ramsden moved to New York City .

Mel Ramsden was with Ian Burn co-founder of Art Press and the Society for Arts and Theoretical Analysis in New York City ( The Society for Theoretical kind and Analysis ) in 1969. Ramsden was in 1971 a member of the art group Art & Language.

As a member of Art & Language, Mel Ramsden participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the project “Index 0001” in the Idea + Idea / Light department , together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson , David Bainbridge , Ian Burn , Charles Harrison , Harold Hurrell , Michael Baldwin and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth . With Art & Language he was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977), Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta X 1997.

Art & Language has been continued as a project by Baldwin and Ramsden since 1977. An extensive oeuvre of objects and images was created. Many texts were written by Charles Harrison, who has been publishing "Art-Language" since 1971 .

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  • Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
  • (documenta 10 catalog): Politics - Poetics - the book on documenta X; Kassel / Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-909-4 (German) / ISBN 3-89322-911-6 (English)
  • Marzona, Daniel: Conceptual Art; Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-8228-2959-5
  • Kosuth, Joseph: "The Artist as Anthropologist", Art After Philosophy and After, MIT Press 1991, p. 117

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personal data
SURNAME Ramsden, Mel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilkeston , Derbyshire , UK