Thom Puckey
11 Easy Pieces : Love & Self-Damage
essay Willem Elias ; conversations beween Thom Puckey and Margriet Kemper, Melanie Bonajo, Ksenia Galiaeva, Stine Sampers, Elisabet Stienstra

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Auteur(s)

Willem Elias, Margriet Kemper, Melanie Bonajo, Ksenia Galiaeva, Stine Sampers, Elisabet Stienstra

Uitgever, jaar

's Hertogenbosch : Uitgeverij Pels & Kemper, 2013

Omvang

88 p., geïllustreerd, 31 cm.

ISBN

9789079372140

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Thom Puckey, influenced early on by the Viennese Actionism movement, was intensely active as a performance artist in the 1970s and early 1980s with his performance art duo Reindeer Work; this trained him in the expressive possibilities of the body, in its relational abilities and in how to render their image. His apprenticeship can still be seen in the artwork he produces today and, especially, in his use of live models for his sculpture. Many long posing sessions are required to establish the position of each figure and during these a great many photographs are taken, snapped from every angle in order to verify the subject's validity and how it will take shape in space. So it follows that the artist treats each model as a true performer in two senses: in that, with her body, she incarnates a living, unexpected form constituting an expressive possibility, and in that she is an actress playing a role, lending her face and body to an otherwise abstract idea.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Thom Puckey

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 6 - 6: Kunstenaars

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;