Robin Page

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Mike Spike Froidl dyes the beard of his art professor Robin Page blue, whereupon he calls himself "Bluebeard".

Robin Page (born November 2, 1932 in London , Great Britain ; † May 12, 2015 ) was a British conceptual artist and an important representative of the Fluxus movement.

life and work

Robin Page was born in England on November 2, 1932. His father, Peter Carter-Page, was a cartoonist and draftsman and got a job at Disney Studios in Hollywood in the 1930s. The family moved to Canada , where the young Page lived until the age of 27. He attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1952 to 1954.

In 1959, Page moved back to Europe and quickly found a connection to the international network of Fluxus artists such as Robert Filliou , Dieter Roth , Dorothy Iannone , Daniel Spoerri , Ben Vautier and others.

Robin Page was visiting professor at High Wycombe College of Further Education and at Leicester College of Art and Coventry College of Art from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 to 1970 he was a lecturer in the Fine Art Department of Leeds College of Art. In 1970 moved Page to Germany and made the Fluxus movement popular together with other artists.

In 1972 he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department with some objects .

From 1981 to 1998 Robin Page was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His master class were u. a. WONABC , Yongbo Zhao and Mike Spike Froidl . In 1987, Froidl dyed Page's snow-white beard blue . Until then, Robin Page had captured himself as a role model with his thoughts in pictures. With the blue beard, Robin Page exchanged his identity and became the host of the materialization of the Bluebeard . This was followed by the conception of the Bluebeard AmMuseum , a place at the forefront of contemporary art, where Page ridiculed the concept of the facility itself and placed Bluebeard at the center of his art collection.

Robin Page has developed his own form of artistic expression and was one of the first artists to use humor as a medium in his art. The stylistic devices of his art are painting , object art , happenings , events and performance appearances.

Happenings (Action Events)

  • 1962: The Door , London. Art Indicator , London. Guitar Piece , Misfits Concert, ICA, London. Simultaneous Document of the Space Flight of American Astronaut Walter Shira , London.
  • 1963: Plant Piece , Little festival of New Music, London. Two Stones London and the Fluxus Festival, Nice. Wrap-up , BBC, New Comment, London. The Measurement of Motivation , London.
  • 1965: Eclipse , Theater Royal, Stratford, London.
  • 1966: Krow 1 , Destruction in Art Symposium, London. Beach Boxes , Scarborough. Merry Christmas '66 , Leeds.
  • 1967: Action Lecture on War , Cardiff. Protest March , Leeds.
  • 1968: Professor Protozoa's Mini Majestic Bilou Road Show Yeah , City of London Festival. The Wild Man of Woburn , Woburn Abbey. Event for Liz , St. Valentine's Eve, Bradford. Concert of Experimental Music , Commonwealth Institute, London.

Exhibitions

(Selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1969: Art Intermedia, Cologne
  • 1971: Eat Art Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1972: Galerie Müller , Cologne
  • 1973: Kunstverein, Cologne; Muller Gallery, Stuttgart; Gunter Sachs Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1974: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1974: Galerie Foncke, Ghent; Salon de Mai, Paris (also in Braunschweig and Lijnbaacentrum, Rotterdam)
  • 1975: Gallery Allen, Vancouver
  • 1977: Junior Gallery, Goslar; Galerie Vallois, Paris
  • 1979: Galerie Redmann, Sylt; Academy of Arts , Berlin
  • 1980: Galerie Redmann, Berlin; Galerie Redmann at ART'80, Basel; Kunsthalle, Darmstadt,
  • 1982: Art Association Augsburg,
  • 1993: Galerie Klewan, Munich
  • 2002: Gallery Hundertmark , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Group exhibitions

  • 1953: Young West Coast Painters, Vancouver
  • 1954: West Coast Hard Edge, Seattle
  • 1962: Festival of Misfits, Gallery One, London; Richmond Jazz Festival
  • 1963: Ten Year Show, Gallery One, London
  • 1964: Cross Section, City Museum, Leicester; About Round, University of Leeds
  • 1965: 45th Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London; Structures Vivantes, Redfern Gallery, London; Then & Now, Park Square Gallery, Leeds
  • 1966: Form & Image, City Museum, Leeds; Destruction in Art Symposium, Leeds
  • 1967: Concrete / Spatial Poetry, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
  • 1969: Amadou in A, Antwerp
  • 1970: Happenings & Fluxus, Kunstverein Cologne
  • 1972: Rhein-Ruhr scene, Folkwang Museum , Essen; Documenta 5, Kassel; Friends of the Sammein Museum, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1973: 6th International Triennial of Colored Graphic Prints, Grenchen Galerie Müller, Koln.
  • 1990: 44th Venice Biennale
  • 2002: Fluxus and Friends 2002, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • 2005: FLUXUS and Friends, Our Dear Women Monastery, Magdeburg
  • 2008: Fluxus Scores and Instructions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Paul Gravett, (2007) Pulp Fiction, Hayward Gallery Publishing, Southbank Center, London
  • Hering, Karl-Heinz: Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Verheyen & Schulte, Düsseldorf 1974
  • Artist Dips His Brush in Canadian Wry ', Art Perry, Vancouver Province, November, 1974
  • Robin Page, Galerie Müller, G. Wirth, The Artwork, Baden-Baden 1973
  • Robin Page: Image parables, exhibition catalog, Augsburg, 1982
  • Robin Page Bluebeard: The Bluebeard Amuseum Collection (first Shown at "Fluxus Fluxorum", an Official Side-show of the Venice Biennale, in 1990), Kunstverein Erding 1997

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