Richard Prince
Richard Prince (born August 6, 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone ) is an American painter and photographer. He is a representative of Appropriation Art . The Ellen Stragow Gallery in New York enabled him to have his first solo exhibition in 1976.
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Prince mainly deals with the trivial myths of American everyday culture. He often uses advertisements from magazines, which he photographs and republishes with a partially changed cutout, graininess or color. He describes this way of working as "re-photographing".
His best-known work is the 1980–1987 series “Cowboys”, which consists of photographed clippings from Marlboro advertisements (the originals of which are from the Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid ). The painting Untitled (Cowboy) was auctioned off at Christie's New York in 2005 for a price of over US $ 1 million. In November 2007, another picture from the same series was sold at an auction at Sotheby's in New York for the record price of 3.4 million dollars, making it the most expensive single photo ever sold.
Since the mid-1980s, his painting works have dealt with jokes, which he either writes on monochrome primed canvases without any additions or which he extends with drawings, paintings and cartoons.
In the following years other series were created with the names Car Hoods , Check Paintings and Nurse Paintings . An example from the last series is “Hollywood Nurse # 4” from 2004, which was auctioned in New York in 2010, and “Very Private Nurse # 1”. He himself collects first editions of Lolita from the author Vladimir Nabokov .
Prince took part in the Venice Biennale in 1988 and in documenta 9 in 1992 .
He lives in New York .
criticism
Prince was criticized for taking photos of pictures from the Internet or Instagram with his cell phone, enlarging them and selling them for about $ 90,000 without the photographer sharing in the profits.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1990 Jablonka Gallery, Cologne and Gisela Capitain, Cologne: "Richard Prince: Jokes, Gangs, Hoods"
- 1992 documenta 9 , Kassel; Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
- 1993 Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf; Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
- 1994 House of Art Munich
- 1996 Kunsthalle Zurich ; Saatchi Gallery , London
- 1997 Museum Haus Lange , Museum Haus Esters , Krefeld; Deichtorhallen Hamburg ; Museum of Modern Art , New York; Kunstraum Neue Kunst , Hanover; White Cube , London
- 1998 Sabine Knust Gallery , Munich; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Anton Kern, New York; Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
- 2000 Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg; Jablonka Gallery; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2001 Kunsthalle Wien ; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art , Ridgefield
- 2007 Spiritual America - Guggenheim Museum , New York
- 2014 It's a Free Concert. , Kunsthaus Bregenz
Collections
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , Fort Worth , Texas
- Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles
- Walker Art Center , Minneapolis
- National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa
- Art Museum Basel
- Museum of Contemporary Art , Basel
- SAFN Reykjavík
- Falckenberg Collection , Hamburg
- Reinking Collection , Hamburg
- Goetz Collection , Munich
- Sprengel Museum , Hanover
literature
- Solomon Guggenheim Museum (Ed.): Richard Prince , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-2055-7 .
- Sven Nommensen, Iben From: Call it what you like !: Collection Rik Reinking . 1st edition, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (2008) ISBN 87-91252-23-7 (exhibition catalog).
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Prince in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Richard Prince in the documenta archive
- Untitled (Cowboy) , 1989 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Richard Prince on kunstaspekte.de
proof
- ^ Artobserved: Richard Prince Photo Breaks Auction Record , January 8, 2008
- ↑ Instagram images for $ 90,000. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 1, 2015, accessed June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on September 9, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prince, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Panama Canal Zone |