Rita McBride

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Rita McBride (2017)

Rita McBride (* 1960 in Des Moines , Iowa ) is an American sculptor and installation artist. With her mostly space-consuming installations she deals with architecture , function and communication . Her complex work has been presented in exhibitions around the world since the late 1980s.

Life

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson , New York in 1982, she continued her artistic training at the California Institute of the Arts with the teacher John Baldessari and completed her studies there in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree . After stays in New York , Portugal , Madrid , Rome , Paris and Berlin , she was visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris from 1999 to 2000 . McBride has been a professor of sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 2003 . On August 1, 2013, she took up the post of rector (succeeding the sculptor Tony Cragg ).

She is married to the painter Glen Rubsamen .

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Her sculptures often deal on a meta-level with sociological or cultural structures with reference to architecture and design . The exemplary object group of middle managers should be emphasized . These are industrially manufactured, minimal objects modeled on German power boxes, all of which have typical German first names such as Rolf or Günther . They represent those art officials or curators in middle positions who have little expertise and who can block the path to more important or interesting museums for artists. With these works McBride subverts the art business . Produced in large numbers, they find great sales among collectors and gallery owners. She mainly conceives her work at her place of residence in Düsseldorf, but they are manufactured in factories around the world. In spring 2016, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will host its first solo exhibition in its second hometown since 2003.

Public sculptures

  • Obelisk of Tutankhamun , Cologne

  • Mae West , Munich

  • Carbon Obelisk, Emscherufer

  • Arena , Salford

Awards

literature

  • "" Ladies choice 3 ". Rita McBride "/ To Be Announced. Cologne 1999.
  • “Rita McBride. Factory show. ”Edited by Matthias Winzen. Cologne / Baden-Baden 2000.
  • “The stranger came naked”: [the Rita McBride novel by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; on the occasion of the exhibition "Naked Came the Stranger" by Rita McBride, May 30 to August 25, 2002] / Gina Ashcraft. [Translator: Bernadette Ott]
  • Exhibition catalog: Rita McBride: Previously , Richter, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-906664-60-6 .
  • Exhibition catalog: RITA McBRIDE: PUBLIC WORKS 1988-2015 ; A Field Manual by Gina Ashcraft & Mark von Schlegell. Hanover / Düsseldorf / Cologne 2016.

Web links

Commons : Rita McBride  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.derwesten.de
  2. ↑ wz-newsline.de: Rita McBride is the new Rector of the Art Academy, October 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ We need female role models. In: FAZ.net . October 29, 2013, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  4. ↑ emscherkunst.de: Carbon Obelisk
  5. ↑ "7 Donkeys": Does the city make a donkey?
  6. ^ Entry on McBride, Rita in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
personal data
SURNAME McBride, Rita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mc Bride, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines