Seth Siegelaub
Seth Siegelaub (* 1941 in Bronx , New York City , USA ; † June 15, 2013 in Basel ) was an American art dealer , curator , publisher , author and textile scientist.
Life
Siegelaub had his Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art gallery in Manhattan from 1964 to 1966 , in which he exhibited young, unconventional artists he represented and aggressively presented and ultimately sold their work through press work and advertising. In the following years he also appeared as a publisher of catalogs and artist publications and became a private curator for artists of conceptual art , for example in his exhibition in 1969 January 5-31, 1969 with Joseph Kosuth , Robert Barry , Lawrence Weiner and Douglas Huebler . Between 1968 and 1971 he organized or published around 20 exhibitions, symposia, catalogs, books and projects, including the Xerox Book in 1968 and the March 1969 and July, August, September 1969 exhibitions , essentially in the form of the Catalogs existed.
Together with the lawyer Robert Projansky, Siegelaub was the initiator and author of the contract document The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement , for which there was an exhibition designed by Maria Eichhorn in 1998 at the Salzburger Kunstverein . These demands for rights for the artists were also in the catalog for Documenta 5 of Harald Szeemann published. In essence, Siegelaub's idea of fair artist remuneration was about two things: the influence of the artist on the future use of the work of art and the financial participation of the artists and galleries in profits from resales on the secondary market (in Germany: resale right ).
Since the late 1980s Siegelaub lived in Amsterdam with Marja Bloem, who was a curator at the Stedelijk Museum there from 1971 to 2005 . He bundled his various activities, collectibles and studies in the foundation under Dutch law Stichting Egress Foundation . In 2011 he bequeathed in a premature legacy his archive to the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
Web links
- Biography and obituary (en.)
Activity as a publisher (selection)
- 1968: together with the Louis Kellner Foundation: Lawrence Weiner: Statement s.
- 1968: together with Jack Wendler: Carl Andre , Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt , Robert Morris , Lawrence Weiner ( Xerox Book ).
- 1969: together with Dwan Gallery, New York, Carl Andre: Seven Books of Poetry .
literature
- Alexander Alberro: Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity , Cambridge, Mass .: MIT Press, 2003.
- Maria Eichhorn: The Artist's Contract. Interviews with Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Paula Cooper, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Robert Projansky, Robert Ryman, Seth Siegelaub, John Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Jackie Winsor , ed. by Gerti Fietzek, Cologne: Walther König, 2009.
- Seth Siegelaub. Beyond Conceptual Art , Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Cologne: Walther König, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Fricke: An angled advocate contract paper . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 16, 1998, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 17 ( taz.de [accessed on January 2, 2020]).
- ↑ True pioneer: Seth Siegelaub is dead in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 22, 2013, page 37
- ^ Moritz Scheper: Creeping change. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 29, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegelaub, Seth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art dealer, exhibition curator, author, and textile scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , New York City , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 2013 |
| Place of death | Basel |