Vito Acconci

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Vito Acconci (1973)

Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940 in Bronx , New York City , New York , † April 27, 2017 in Manhattan ) was an American architect , landscape architect and installation artist . He lived in the Bronx, New York.

Life

Vito Acconci's father, an Italian immigrant, intensified his examination of the arts by taking him to museums and opera houses. Acconci studied literature at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts until 1962 and graduated from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa with an MFA in literature and poetry in 1964 . Acconci initially wrote poetry and, together with the poet Bernadette Mayer, published the mimeographed magazine 0 TO 9 from 1967 to 1969 .

In the early 1970s, his artistic practice evolved towards performance and video art . From the mid-1970s, Acconci expanded his practices to include audio-visual installation and spatial installation. His most famous performance from this period is Seedbed (January 1972). Acconci lay down under a wooden floor that had been drawn into the Sonnabend Gallery and masturbated while he shared his thoughts and fantasies over the loudspeaker with the visitors to the gallery above him on the wooden floor.

Acconci was each participant in art exhibitions in Kassel : documenta 5 in 1972, documenta 6 in 1977 and documenta 7 in 1982. In the 1980s and 1990s to Acconci turned the public space artistic interventions as a place to and created numerous works dedicated to the field of media art attribute to let.

Acconci has taught at numerous institutions: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; Cooper Union; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University; and the Parsons School of Design .

Acconci lived and worked in New York City . In 2013 he was elected a member (NA) of the National Academy . He died on April 27, 2017 at the age of 77.

Work (selection)

Graz Murinsel
  • Following Piece (1969), New York
  • Seedbed (1972), New York
  • Courtyard in the Wind (2000), Munich
  • Murinsel (2003), Graz
  • Jury chairman of the NWW Design Awards (2012), Vienna

Exhibitions

  • "Vienna For Art's Sake! Contemporary Art Show", created by Peter Noever; 161 outstanding artists, architects, designers, 13 solo exhibitions / site-specific interventions: Vito + Maria Elena Acconci, Zaha hadid, Magdalena Jetelová, Michael Kienzer, Hans Kupelwieser, Hermann Nitsch, Eva Schlegel, Kiki Smith, the next ENTERprise, Iv Toshain, Atelier Van Lieshout, Koen Vanmechelen, Manfred Wakolbinger; Winter Palace / Belvedere Vienna; Starting point: Imago Mundi / Luciano Benetton Collection, Archive Austria, curated by Peter Noever, Vienna, 2015
  • Vito Acconci. The City Inside Us, curator Peter Noever / MAK, Vienna, 1993

Texts

  • Early Work: Movement over a Page . In: Avelanche , no.6 , fall 1972, p. 4
  • Language to Cover a Page . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2006. 411 pp.
  • Peter Lodermeyer, Karlyn De Jongh & Sarah Gold, Personal Structures: Time Space Existence, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ben Davis: Vito Acconci, Transgressive Progenitor of Performance Art, Dies at 77. In: artnet.com. Artnet Worldwide Corporation, April 28, 2017, accessed April 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Marjorie Perloff (Conceptualisms, Old and New) speaks of word texts and complex language games (constraint-based lists, dictionary games, performance scores, or parodic translations) . V. Acconci's work was collected in: Language to Cover a Page . MIT Press, Writing Art Series, Cambridge 2006.
  3. ↑ There were seven issues. See Vito Acconci, Bernadette Mayer: O To 9. The Complete Magazine: 1967-1969 . Ugly Duckling Press, Lost Literature Series, 2006.
  4. ^ Living Academicians. Acconci, Vito. In: nationalacademy.org. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2015 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. art - the art magazine , March 5th, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Acconci, Vito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acconci, Vito Hannibal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect, landscape architect and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2017
Place of death Manhattan