Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin (* 1941 in Sheffield , England ) is a British artist and co-founder of conceptual art of the 1960s.
Burgin studied art from 1962 to 1965 at the Royal College of Art , in London (ARCA, 1st Class, 1965) before graduating from Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA 1967) in the USA . He lives and works in San Francisco . Victor Burgin has taught at Goldsmiths College and the University of California, Santa Cruz .
Victor Burgin became known as a concept artist. Burgin works with photography and film - he describes painting as "the anachronistic smearing of colored dirt on woven fabric". His work is heavily influenced by various theorists and philosophers , in particular Karl Marx , Sigmund Freud , Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes . His work deals with the juxtaposition of text and image as well as the representation and representation of women and fetish .
In 1986 Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize in recognition of various exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge, as well as for a collection of his theoretical writings and essays (The End of Theory and Between) .
Exhibitions
- 2014: Victor Burgin. Forms of storytelling , Museum of Contemporary Art , Siegen
- 2010 - Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne: _digital video projection Dovedale
- 2009 - Hôtel Berlin, Campagne Première, Berlin
- 1998 - Love Letters, Möcsarnok (art gallery), Budapest
- 1995 - The End, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery / Research Center in Art + Culture
- 1992 - Passages, Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France
- 1991 - Passages, Musee d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
- 1986 - Victor Burgin, ICA, London
- 1981 - Victor Burgin, Musee de la Ville de Calais, Calais
- 1979 - Zoo, DAAD gallery , Berlin
- 1978 - Victor Burgin, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- 1977 - Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 1976 - Lei Feng, Foksal Gallery, Poznań, Poland; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
- 1972 - Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Idea + Idea / Light department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen , accessed on April 21, 2014
Web links
- kunstaspekte.de
- Thomas Dreher Victor Burgin: The Shadow of the Watchman - or: Memory Operations
- Thomas Dreher Victor Burgin: Angelus Novus, 1995
- Materials by and about Victor Burgin in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgin, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , England |