Richard Bell (artist)

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Richard Bell (* 1953 in Charleville , Queensland ;) is an artist. He was born as an Aboriginal of the Kamilaroi tribe . Bell is considered a committed political artist who has made a name for himself with his works of art in this direction in recent years and has thus become extremely well known.

Life

Bennet lives and works in Brisbane , where he studied at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane from 1986 to 1988. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art). He was a member of the Campfire group of artists in Brisbane, a group of artists.

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Richard Bell is one of Australia's most contemporary contemporary painters: " Richard Bell has established a reputation as a political commentator and" enfant terrible "in Indigenous art over the past several years ". (German: Richard Bell has made a name for himself over the years with a reputation as a political commentator and enfant terrible of Aboriginal art.) Bennett's works are abstract and deal primarily with events and issues in post-colonial Australia. After the terrorist attack on November 9, 2001, he produced a series of works, and in 2003 he created camouflage-style works dealing with the Iraq war.

His works are called nonsense when they are composed of text and visualizations. He adopts art style and artistic statements from other artists and uses them to form images with his content. He works as a painter, designs performances or makes videos, where he deals with the relationship between whites and blacks. It combines traditional art and modern Aboriginal art.

He is looking for a protest: “ Aboriginal Art - that's a white thing! "Or" I don't need a tax cut. I want my whole country back ... "are statements that seek contradiction. He says: “ White culture took away my tribal language and in return gave me a language that, on the social level, doesn't work. “(German: The white culture took the language of my people from me and gave me a language that doesn't work in social relationships.)

Since 1989 Benett has exhibited in 50 solo exhibitions internationally and nationally, for example at the Biennale of Sydney , Venice Biennale , Kwangju, Shanghai, Cuba, USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Prague in the Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Japan. He received several awards and prizes such as the Mokt & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1991, the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1997. He won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2003 for a 2 , 40 by 2.40 meter work of synthetic colors on canvas.

In 2003 he was one of the 50 most sought-after and collected Aboriginal artists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/bell.php
  2. ↑ http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists/inartists/artist_profile.asp?artist=bennettg
  3. ↑ www.aboriginalartonline.com
  4. ↑ http ACC-Weimar ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acc-weimar.de
  5. ^ Aboriginal Art Online
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian artist, Aboriginal
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleville , Australia