Thomas Kovachevich
Thomas "Tom" Kovachevich (born March 11, 1942 in Detroit Michigan , USA ; lives in New York City ) is an American contemporary performance artist and object artist .
Life
Thomas Kovachevich is not only a versatile artist, but also a practicing doctor . As an artist he is self-taught . His works are characterized by the fact that he uses what comes from his medical practice and everyday work in his objects. Kovachevich's art begins with what he finds: he transforms things into works of art, for example by shredding, tearing paper into pieces, tying them together and so on.
Kovachevich began exhibiting his works in the 1970s. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad. In 1972 he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel with some of his objects in the Individual Mythologies department .
His work is assigned to abstract minimalism , his influences come from Land Art , Minimal Art and Arte Povera .
He uses numerous materials, paints in acrylic on plastic, uses plastic packaging, and objects such as combs, toothbrushes, batteries, packaging materials, adhesive tapes, cameras, toy guns and even swimsuits. Kovachevich fills the inside of plastic covers with color, creating spatial sculptures. Most of his sculptures are pure abstractions. He produces his works of art in series and masses.
Many of his objects are sculptures made of paper, folded or rolled, or made of small pieces of cardboard or cotton. In his medical practice, he often saw cotton floating in water. He began to experiment with what happens when paper or cotton floats in a bowl of water. The objects that are created in this way are changeable and possibly no longer exist at some point.
literature
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Thomaskovachevich.com
- Thomas Kovachevich: Hannah Smith Agency
- Images of a performance
- Examples of his work
- Materials by and about Thomas Kovachevich in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kovachevich, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kovachevich, Tom (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American contemporary performance artist and contract artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit Michigan , USA |