Michael Craig-Martin

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Cascade d'objets , Nice (photo from 2011)
The fan , Triton Square, London (recorded in 2007)

Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE (born August 28, 1941 in Dublin ) is an Irish-British painter and installation artist .

Life

Michael Craig-Martin's family moved to Washington, DC in 1946 , where he mainly grew up, he also attended schools in England and Bogotá . He first took up a degree in literature and history at Fordham University in New York City . He began his artistic training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and then studied art at Yale University . He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s. He had his first exhibition at the Rowan Gallery in London in 1969, and in 1972 he participated in the crucial exhibition for British conceptual art at the Hayward Gallery . He became a key actor in the first generation of British conceptual artists. Craig taught at Goldsmith's College School of Art from 1974 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2000 and had a strong influence on the generation of Young British Artists , including Liam Gillick , Gary Hume , Damien Hirst , Sarah Lucas , Julian Opie , Richard Patterson and Fiona Rae , whose teaching style gave them the freedom to develop themselves.

Craig-Martin uses common household items in his work. In 1974 he created the installation An Oak Tree , in which a filled water glass stands on a glass shelf attached to the gallery wall at a height of 253 cm. The object includes a text that was initially given to the visitor as paper and was later printed on a sign that is attached to the wall by the shelf at eye level. In a question-and-answer game, the artist explained that the glass of water into a full-blown oak had transformed . - The object is in the National Gallery of Australia , a replica is on display in the Tate Gallery.

In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 and in 1998 in the São Paulo Biennale .

In the late 1970s, Craig-Martin began using simple lines to contour everyday objects with fine lines, thus developing his artistic language. In the 1990s he began to work with (bright) colors and use them to prime the canvases on which he applied his drawings. His drawings do not show people, but the man-made objects with which people act. Craig drew the objects that he set up as models in his studio until computer technology provided him with photographs of the objects in the 1990s, which he now manipulates with the mouse . However, some objects have already lost their functional appearance: since the beginning of the 21st century, one can no longer see that a telephone is used for speaking and listening.

Craig-Martin's work has been bought by many major galleries: Museum of Modern Art , Tate Gallery, and Center Pompidou . He had solo exhibitions in many galleries, such as the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2006) and the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld (2013). The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London showed a retrospective in 1989 , as did the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006 .

Large-format installations in public spaces are located in the Woolwich Arsenal train station , the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg , at the Laban Dance Center in Greenwich . In 2007 he painted the exterior of apartment buildings on Boulevard Virgile Barel, a busy main street in Nice, as Cascade d'objets du quotidien .

Craig-Martin was artist trustee at Tate for ten years between 1989 and 1999. In 2001 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire , in 2006 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts .

Craig-Martin lives in London.

Fonts (selection)

  • Practicing abstraction . In: Bridget Riley : Dialogues on art. London . Thames & Hudson 1992

Literature / exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Richard Cork: New spirit, new sculpture, new money: art in the 1980s . Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 2003, pp. 242-245
  • Richard Cork: Michael Craig-Martin : [published on the occasion of the exhibition: Michael Craig-Martin: works 1964–2006, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 4 October 2006 - 14 January 2007]
  • Martin Hentschel: Michael Craig-Martin - less is still more : [on the occasion of the exhibition 'Michael Craig-Martin - less is still more', Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, April 28 - September 1, 2013]. Biography pp. 140-145
  • Eckhard Schneider: Michael Craig-Martin, signs of life : [... on the occasion of the exhibition 'Michael Craig-Martin, Signs of Life', June 10 to August 13, 2006, Kunsthaus Bregenz]
  • Richard Cork et al. a .: Michael Craig-Martin - inhale , [exhale]: [an installation commissioned to mark the reopening of Manchester Art Gallery, 25 May 2002 - 30 June 2002]. Biography pp. 61-63
  • Eckhard Schneider , Yehuda E. Safran: Michael Craig-Martin, Always now : [11. July to September 13, 1998]. Art Association Hanover

Web links

Commons : Michael Craig-Martin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Craig-Martin , at Gagosian Gallery
  2. ↑ staff list , at Goldsmiths
  3. ↑ a b c d Liz Jobey: Ideas man , in: Financial Times , March 1, 2014, p. 14
  4. ↑ Eliza Manchester: Michael Craig-Martin An Oak Tree 1973 , brief explanation from Tate, December 2002
  5. ↑ Michael Craig-Martin: Street Life , at Docklands Light Railway
  6. ↑ Cascade d'objets du quotidien ( Memento of the original dated August 8, 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. , at lartpublic @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.de-lartpublic.fr
personal data
SURNAME Craig-Martin, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-British painter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin