Shimon Attie

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Shimon Attie (* 1957 in Los Angeles ) is an American photo artist.

Life

Shimon Attie studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and obtained his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) there in 1991 . His first work was on Jewish identity, the history of World War II, and the Holocaust . After the political change in Germany, he moved to Berlin in 1991 . In his first installation Writing on the Wall in 1991/92 in Berlin's Scheunenviertel , Attie projected historical photos of former and allegedly murdered residents onto the street fronts of houses, for example in Mulackstrasse 37 and Joachimstrasse 2, and documented these projections as photos and videos. The house at Grenadierstrasse 7 was given the view of the Hebrew Bookstore from 1930. Over the next few years he also worked with projection technology in Dresden (1993), Copenhagen (1995), Cologne (1995), in front of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (1995) and in Krakow (1996).

He was able to present the results of his work in group exhibitions, for example at MoMA in 1994/95, in 2003 in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , in 2007 in the Center Georges Pompidou and in 2013 in the Art Institute of Chicago , and in many solo exhibitions. In 2011 he was represented with a work at the Videonale in the Kunstmuseum Bonn .

Attie has been working in New York City since 1997 .

Works / exhibitions (selection)

  • The attraction of onlookers: Aberfan: an anatomy of a Welsh village . Foreword by John Humphrys. Text Melanie Doel, Chris Townsend. Cardigan: Parthian, 2008
  • An Unusually bad lot . Video. Producer Branka Bogdonov. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2000
  • Between dreams and history: the making of Shimon Attie's public art projects . Video. Ben Lomond producer. The Video Project, 2000?
  • Sites unseen: European projects; Installations and photographs / Shimon Attie . With an introduction by James Young. Translation Reinhold Tyrach, Marion Jentzsch. Heidelberg: Umschau, 1998
  • The writing on the wall: Shimon Attie, photographs and installations; Jewish past in Berlin's Scheunenviertel . With texts by Shimon Attie, Michael André Bernstein, Erwin Leiser . Translation by Philip Matson. Heidelberg: Ed. Braus, 1993
  • Finstere medine: Projections in the Scheunenviertel: a work in progress . Berlin: Gallery in the Scheunenviertel, 1992

literature

  • James E. Young : After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture . Translation of Ekkehard Knörer . Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2002 ISBN 3-930908-70-0 . Sites Unseen , pp. 76-107
  • Peter Muir: Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics . Burlington: Ashgate, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mulackstrasse 37 and Joachimstrasse 2 at MoMA and also in: Lise Patt (ed.): Searching for Sebald: photography after WG Sebald . Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007, pp. 514-515.
personal data
SURNAME Attie, Shimon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles