Michael Singer

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Michael Singer (* 1945 in Brooklyn ) is an American sculptor, landscape architect and concept artist .

life and work

Michael Singer was born in 1945 in New York City and studied from 1963 to 1968 at Cornell University in New York and Rutgers University in New Brunswick .

A garden was created in 1999 for the Alterra Institute at Wageningen University in Wageningen , Gelderland province , which functions as the building's “green lung”, purifies air and water and controls the temperature without the need for air conditioning.

Michael Singer realized the fountain installation “Memorial Garden”, known under the name Grottenloch , on the Wartberg site in Stuttgart for the 1993 International Horticultural Exhibition .

The projects are the result of a collaboration between Michael Singer Studios in Florida and Vermont and an interdisciplinary team of environmental planners , naturalists , engineers, social anthropologists , historians, economists and other experts. The projects are developed jointly and this is how innovative ecological, social, political and economic solutions are created.

Exhibitions

Singer has had a variety of solo exhibitions, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Utzon Center in Aalborg and the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen . In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel.

Collections

Michael Singer's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia , Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Awards

Michael Singer has received numerous awards ( New York State Council on the Arts and Vermont State Governor's Award for the Arts ) and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture and performance; Kassel, page 242, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  2. ↑ Michael Singer Studio, IBN-DLO Wageningen, Netherlands, 1999-Alterra Institute for environmental research, accessed on December 25, 2014 (English)
  3. ^ Yard Gallery, Presentation of the artist and designer Michael Singer's work ( Memento from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Singer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor, landscape architect, and conceptual artist.
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn