Ron Cooper
Ron Cooper (born July 24, 1943 in Venice , California , USA ; lives in Truchas , Mexico ) is a contemporary American minimalist and abstract painter , photographer , sculptor and collage artist.
life and work
Ron Cooper attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Valencia , Los Angeles County until 1963.
Ron Cooper is fascinated by light, which has greatly influenced his art and allowed him to create an impressive range of media in seemingly opposing artistic directions. His early works include large light sculptures made from polyester resin and fiberglass .
He was engaged in photography and experimented with images of illuminated torsos . As a homage to Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Weston , he created photographic studies of the human body, based on the classical ideal of Greek sculpture.
An example of his more recent work are painted ceramics of the upper body. Cooper's painted torsos are an expression of his fascination with the effects of light on the human body. With the use of drops of color, his works are reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism . Cooper breaks the three-dimensional quality of ceramics and demands a two-dimensional perception of his sculptural forms.
As a painter, he created numerous paintings that can be assigned to color field painting .
Ron Cooper participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Light + Light / Idea department and in the Individual Mythologies : Film department .
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
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooper, Ron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor, painter, and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice , California, USA |