Stan Douglas

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Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian artist. His forms of expression are photography, film and installations.

Life

Douglas studied at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. He became internationally active as an artist in the 1990s and exhibited his works at Documenta IX , 1992, Documenta X , 1997, Documenta XI , 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005 , among others . Douglas' film and video installations, photographs and television works often fall back on publications by well-known authors such as Samuel Beckett , Marcel Proust , Brothers Grimm as well as ETA Hoffmann or Karl Marx . The art collector Friedrich Christian Flick describes Douglas' eerie montages in the foreword to his monograph as "a critical analysis of our social reality".

Between 2000 and 2006 Stan Douglas was Professor of Media Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts . After the university administration forbade him to hold his seminars en bloc, he left the university in protest.

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Douglas is known for his highly complex and technically perfect film and video works, which continuously expand the possibilities of the medium in order to construct non-linear narrative forms and surprising time models. The conceptual and formal precision of Douglas' films is also characteristic of his photographs.

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Awards

literature

Monographs

  • Dora Imhof: How does "The Sandman" tell? Multiple narration in Stan Douglas's film and video installations. Schreiber Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 9783889600851 , dissertation.
  • Philip Monk: Stan Douglas. DuMont-Verlag , Cologne 2006, ISBN 9783832177294 .
  • Munzinger archive. International Biographical Archive, delivery 19/03, 28 April 2003, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 44/2013.
  • Scott Watson, Diana Thater, Carol J. Clover: Stan Douglas. Phaidon Press , London 1998, ISBN 0714837962 (in English).

Exhibition catalogs

items

  • Jason Farago: Stan Douglas' Circa 1948: 'It's not a game, it's a story'. One of Canada's great artists is back with a project that explores Vancouver's historical hotels, gambling dens and beer halls. In: The Guardian , April 22, 2014
  • Catrin Lorch: Yesterday's bar. The artist Stan Douglas proves to be one of the great re-animators of our time with an exhibition in Munich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 141, June 23, 2014, p. 9, ISSN  0174-4917 .

Web links

Materials by and about Stan Douglas in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Students fight for their professor (Hito Steyerl); Der Tagesspiegel , July 22, 2009; accessed on December 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ In search of the lost lightning in FAZ from July 4, 2014, page 12
  4. ↑ Introduction of the museum to the exhibition , accessed on August 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ STAN DOUGLAS 2016 Hasselblad Award Winner
  6. ↑ Stan Douglas wins $ 50,000 Scotiabank Photo Award , canadianart.ca, May 16, 2013.
  7. ↑ Announcement on the award of the prize , accessed on August 31, 2014.
  8. ↑ Online article , accessed August 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Stan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver