Peter Downsbrough
Peter Downsbrough (* 1940 in New Brunswick ) is an American- Belgian sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist .
life and work
Peter Downsbrough was born in New Jersey in 1940 and lives in Brussels .
In the early 1960s, Downsbrough studied architecture and art at the University of Cincinnati and the Cooper Union in New York City .
For 1972 he has been using books for the presentation of his works (like Robert Barry , Sol LeWitt , Edward Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner ). At first Downsbrough limited himself to texts and lines, later he also integrated maps and photos of urban spaces.
Peter Downsbrough works with the connection between architecture, typography and linguistics . His greatly reduced vocabulary consists of short and concise conjunctions and prepositions such as: and, as, or, to, if, but, from, with, here, there, maar, op, en, et, ou, mais. These have a double function: on the one hand, they are iconographic signs that describe the space and, on the other hand, they give the viewer the opportunity to move from one thought to the next and to establish a connection between individual sentences or parts of sentences. Downsbrough uses some verbs and nouns .
“With the word you take part in a dialogue, a discourse about its exact meaning ... The word is an object for me. It has both an exact and an elusive meaning. A word is a whole universe to deal with. There is, however, no mandatory type of interpretation. "
Peter Downsbrough's material consists of letters, lines, cuts and spaces.
He uses adhesive letters indoors, which he places on walls, floors and / or ceilings. Mostly black lines drawn with adhesive tape emphasize architectural elements. Metal pipes that stand freely in the room and are sometimes attached to the wall set accents.
Downsbrough's sculptures, interventions in public space , consist of horizontal and vertical black bars on which words or fragments of words are arranged.
Downsbrough's black and white photographs of urban environments are also shaped by spatial rhythms and linear geometry . Peter Downsbrough also makes models , videos and drawings .
Peter Downsbrough is represented by the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, the GDM in Paris and the Galerie Thomas Zander in Cologne.
Exhibitions
His works were on view at documenta 6 in Kassel, the Vienna Secession , the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles , the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain in Geneva .
Downsbrough's works are in the following collections:
- Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- Musée d'art contemporain , Lyon
- Musée des Beaux-Arts (Dijon)
- Museum of Modern Art Library and New York Public Library in New York City
- Tate Gallery Library, London, England
Works in public space have been placed in New York, Liège , Rennes , Nîmes , Łódź , Warsaw, Munich and Brussels.
literature
- Peter Downsbrough: The Book (s) 1968–2010, deSingel, Antwerp 2011 ISBN 978-3-77572-8-331
- Shifting Places, Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs; Author: Alexander Streitberger, 2011, ISBN 978-9-05867-8-720
Individual evidence
- ↑ BrooklynRail: Peter Downsbrough accessed December 4, 2014 (English)
- ^ Sub Rosa Peter Downsbrough
- ^ Galerie Thomas Zander Peter Downsbrough , accessed on December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Le Musée en Plein Air du Sart-Tilman Peter Downsbrough , accessed December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3: hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel, page 358, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ Artspace Peter Downsbrough accessed on December 4, 2014 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Downsbrough, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Brunswick (New Jersey) |