Michael Venezia

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Michael Venezia (born July 23, 1935 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American painter .

Life

Michael Venezia is an abstract painter. In the 1960s Venezia developed an abstract, reduced visual language in parallel with the artists from the minimal art environment in New York. While many colleagues from his direct artistic environment, such as Dan Flavin or Donald Judd, continue to develop a primarily sculptural work and thus shape the appearance of minimal art , Venezia is continuously working on paintings. In addition to painters such as Frank Stella and Robert Ryman , Venezia is an important representative of abstract painting in New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
In the 1960s, Venezia used spray paint cans as a tool for his paintings. Just as Frank Stella used industrial lacquer in his earlier abstract paintings, Venezia also uses industrial lacquer.

Michael Venezia lives in Brooklyn, New York and Trevi, Italy.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974: Works on paper , Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1998: Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Michael Venezia , Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne

literature

  • Matthia Löbke (Ed.): Michael Venezia: Painting , Snoeck Verlag, Cologne, 2016, exhibition catalog Kunstverein Heilbronn. ISBN 978-3-86442-164-8
  • Dieter Schwarz (ed.): Michael Venezia, painting 1970–1995 Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, exhibition catalog, Museum Winterthur and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster. ISBN 3-928762-60-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kunstverein-heilbronn.de/node/349
  2. ↑ http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=250
  3. ↑ http://haeusler-contemporary.com/kuenstler/michael-venezia/#
  4. ↑ https://www.moma.org/artists/6128
personal data
SURNAME Venezia, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City