Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero (born Marco Polo di Suvero ; born September 18, 1933 in Shanghai , China ) is an American sculptor .
Life
Suvero was born in Shanghai to Italian parents. After immigrating to the USA, he studied from 1953 to 1957 in San Francisco at City College and at the University of California in Santa Barbara and Berkeley . In 1957 he moved to New York . After an accident in 1960, Suvero became paralyzed. Nevertheless, his first solo exhibition took place in New York that same year. In 1968 he participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel in the sculpture department . Since 1969 he has been teaching at the University of California. In 1973 he received a professorship at the International University of Art in Venice .
Mark di Suvero lives and works in Petaluma, California, New York and Chalon-sur-Saône , France. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1990 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2006 he was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design . In 2005 di Suvero received a Heinz Award .
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Mark di Suvero's artistic work consists mainly of large sculptures , for which he often uses steel beams . The structural steel remains untreated or is painted - almost always with the red color RAL 3000. He has no classical training as a blacksmith or engineer . Nevertheless, he creates his sculptures himself, supported by a team of employees.
Works (Germany)
- Lobotchevsky , 1987–1988, Rotebühlplatz , Stuttgart ( 48 ° 46 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 16.3 ″ E )
- L'Allumé 1992, Bundeshaus , Bonn ( 50 ° 43 ′ 12.7 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 29.4 ″ E )
- New Star , 1992, Sculpture Collection Viersen , Viersen ( 51 ° 15 ′ 32.3 ″ N , 6 ° 23 ′ 29.7 ″ E )
- Spring Rain , 1992, Technoseum , Mannheim ( 49 ° 28 ′ 37.2 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 48.2 ″ E )
- Galileo , 1996, Daimler Art Collection, Potsdamer Platz , Berlin ( 52 ° 30 ′ 23.7 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 20.7 ″ E )
- Racine du Naos , 1996, Skulpturenpark Köln , Cologne ( 50 ° 57 ′ 21 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 15.3 ″ E )
gallery
Galileo (1996) on the Piano Lake at the Atrium Tower at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Tiergarten
L'Allume (1992) - Bonn
Lobotchevsky (1988) - Rotebühlplatz , Stuttgart
Nelly (1986) - Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield (England)
New Star (1987) - Viersen
Spring Rain (1992) - Technoseum , Mannheim
literature
- Jörg Damm, Oliver Zybok and others: Course correction - architecture and change in Bonn . Art picture book German / English, museum edition. Hatje Cantz Publishers. Ostfildern-Ruit 2002. ISBN 978-3-7757-1269-9
- RL Bunk, Peter Kastner: Mark di Suvero. “New Star” in the sculpture collection in Viersen . German and English. Viersen 1992, ISBN 3-9805339-9-9
- Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition . Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture , Volume 2: Graphics / Objects . Kassel 1968
- Harald Kimpel, Karin Stengel: Documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A photographic reconstruction. (Series of publications of the documenta archive) Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
Web links
- New Star in Viersen ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Exhibitions and collections with sculptures by Mark di Suvero
- Literature by and about Mark di Suvero in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Mark Di Suvero in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 13, 2019 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "D" / Di Suvero, Mark, NA 2006 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 19, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Di Suvero, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Di Suvero, Marco Polo (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai , China |