Terry Fox (artist)

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Terry Fox (born May 10, 1943 in Seattle , Washington , † October 14, 2008 in Cologne ) was an American action artist , painter and sculptor .

Life

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Terry Fox attended high school in Issaquah, Washington until 1961 . He then worked for a year at the aircraft manufacturer Boeing to finance art studies in Rome . At the same time, Fox studied evening classes at the Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle. He had his first European stay to study painting in 1962 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome . From 1963 he stayed in San Francisco . In 1968 Fox spent a year in Paris , where he gave up painting in favor of direct art actions. In 1969 Terry Fox returned to San Francisco to teach. Since 1970 he has had a variety of solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

From 1980 to 1981 Terry Fox worked as a DAAD scholarship holder at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in the Kreuzberg district . In view of the Berlin Wall , his work Berlin Wall Scored for Sound was created . In 1987 Fox - together with his colleague Maurizio Nannucci - took part in a symposium organized by a Bremen association in the Italian mountain village of Formine on Lake Maggiore . This is where the Pyrofilo work was created . In 2005 Fox worked as a guest at the Barkenhoff in Worpswede for a few months .

With his art actions and installations, Fox mostly reflected on his own life and death: he suffered from cancer and had a near-death experience after a heart operation . This is the name he gave to one of his installations in the Saarbrücken city gallery Ataraxia (German: Seelenruh , after Epicurus ), in which Fox uses sound installations and other objects to highlight important stages in his life.

After stays in San Francisco and Liège , Terry Fox lived and worked in Cologne since 1996. He was married to the filmmaker and author Marita Loosen-Fox.

The Terry Fox Association eV has existed in Cologne since it was founded in 2009. Its aim is to make the artist's work visible through exhibitions, concerts, research projects and symposia. The members of the board are Carsten Seiffarth and Marita Loosen-Fox.

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The artist Fox, like Joseph Beuys , Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik , is one of the representatives of Fluxus . With his actions, in which he mostly includes his own body, he polarizes the audience. Fox has been described as an American "protest artist" of the 1960s and 1970s.

Fox sought answers to the question of what sculpture is and experimented with direct forms of communication. Sound and language are recurring elements in his diverse work that defies clear categorizations. The use of everyday, simple materials (dust, piano strings, sardine cans) is characteristic of his 'sculptures', which often only existed for the duration of their performance. Fox tried to depict the connections from the labyrinth of the inner ear or the labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral in his media or from pangrams . Living through illness and the isolation that came with it became the starting point of his artistic work. The physical experience (one's own as well as that of the audience) was a central element of his actions, performances and sound installations.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970 Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco; Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1971 Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1972 Ileana Sonnabend Gallery , Paris; Lucio Amelio, Naples
  • 1973 documenta 5, Kassel; University Art Museum, Berkeley
  • 1974 Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
  • 1975 And / Or, Seattle, Washington; Gallery scheme, Florence
  • 1976 The Kitchen, New York City
  • 1977 documenta 6, Kassel; De Appel, Amsterdam; Gallery Krinzinger, Innsbruck
  • 1978 Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco; Podio Del Mondo Per L'Arte, Middelburg
  • 1979 Gallery next St. Stephan, Vienna; Gallery Dany Keller, Munich
  • 1980 Museum of Modern Art , New York City; Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1982 Lucerne Art Museum ; Folkwang Museum , Essen; DAAD Gallery, Berlin
  • 1984 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York City
  • 1985 Kunstraum, Munich; Galleria II Cavallino, Venice
  • 1987 documenta 8, Kassel; Primo Piano, Rome; 65 Capp Street, San Francisco
  • 1990 Sydney Biennale; Syndicat Halle, Bonn
  • 1991 Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach; Art Museum, Düsseldorf
  • 1992 Paley / Levy Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
  • 1993 University Art Museum, Berkeley; Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York City
  • 1994 Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art
  • 1996 Sonambiente , Berlin
  • 1997 Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen
  • 1998 Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken; Metronome Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2000 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Lara Vincy Gallery, Paris
  • 2001 singuhr-hoergalerie, Parochialkirche, Berlin; Yellow music, Berlin
  • 2003 Kunsthalle Fridericianum , Kassel
  • 2006 Sonambiente, Berlin
  • 2007 Gallery Ronald Feldman, New York City
  • 2008 quartier 21, MuseumsQuartier , Vienna
  • 2009 singuhr-hoergalerie, water storage water tower Prenzlauer Berg , Berlin
  • 2011 Barkenhoff / Heinrich Vogeler Museum, Worpswede
  • 2015 Academy of Arts , Berlin
  • 2016 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium; From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
  • 2017 Kunstmuseum Bern

Works in public collections

USA and South America University Art Museum, Berkeley || Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland || San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco || Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse || Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City || Museum of Modern Art, New York City || Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles || Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor || Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah || DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara || Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires

Europa Art Museum, Düsseldorf || Museum Ludwig, Cologne || From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal || Museum Folkwang, Essen || Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin || Center Pompidou, Paris || Art Museum, Lucerne || Art Museum, Bern || Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna || LIMA, Media Art, Amsterdam || Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul || Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul

literature

  • Michael Glasmeier, Carsten Seiffarth (eds.): The eye is not the only glass that burns the mind. Terry Fox, Switzerland and 'else' / Terry Fox, Switzerland, and "Elsewhere" . A publication by the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Terry Fox Association eV, Cologne, Spector Books, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-224-5 (German edition), ISBN 978-3-95905-204-7 (English edition)
  • Arnold Dreyblatt u. Angela Lammert (Ed.): Elemental Gestures - Terry Fox . Exhibition cat. Academy of Arts, Berlin; BAM - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mons; From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Kunstmuseum Bern, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-515-8 (English-German edition), ISBN 978-3-86206-524-0 (English-French edition)
  • Beate C. Arnold, Marita Loosen-Fox, Lisa Steib: Terry Fox - Locus Solus . Exhibition Broch. Barkenhoff / Heinrich Vogeler Museum, Worpswede 2011
  • René Block, Nikola Dietrich , Ulli Seegers: (RE / DE) CONSTRUCTIONS & c. - Terry Fox. Exhibition cat. Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, 2003, ISBN 3-927015-34-2
  • Ulli Seegers: volatilization and solidification of being. In: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art . Edition 62, Issue 10. Weltkunst Verlag, Munich 2003, ISSN  0934-1730
  • Eva Schmidt (Ed.): Ocular Language. Terry Fox - 30 years of talking and writing about art . Salon, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89770-092-1
  • Bernd Schulz (Ed.): Works with sound . Exhibition cat. Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999 ISBN 3-933257-04-2
  • Elsa Longhauser, David A. Ross, Constance Lewallen: Terry Fox: Articulations (Labyrinth / Text Works) . Exhib.-Cat. Paley / Levy Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California; Otis Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 1992, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 92-61604
  • Michael Tacke, Kunstraum München eV (Ed.): Terry Fox - Catch Phrases . Exhibition cat. Kunstraum München, 1985, ISBN 3-923874-48-0
  • René Block, Zdenek Felix: Terry Fox - Metaphorical Instruments . Exhibition cat. Folkwang Museum, Essen; daadgalerie Berlin, Richard Bacht Verlag, Essen 1982
  • Brenda Richardson: Terry Fox . University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1973, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 73-620112

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Dieter Mahlstedt: A lifetime of Odysseus. In: Weser Kurier of September 10, 2011, p. 24.
  2. ^ Association for the promotion of the German-Italian cultural and scientific exchange Formine eV: Formine Symposium '87. Bremen, no year and Page numbers.
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American action artist, painter, and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2008
Place of death Cologne , Germany