Barry McGee - Hardcover

McGee, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8862080964 ISBN 13: 9788862080965

Verlag: Damiani, 2010

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Un libro d'artista sotto forma di collage visivo che incorpora fotografie, disegni, dipinti e una documentazione di installazioni passate e presenti. L'arte di Barry McGee vibra di una vitalità contagiosa che celebra lo spettacolo straripante della vita urbana, denunciandone al tempo stesso le "malattie, sovrastimolazioni, frustrazioni, dipendenze". Gli anni da graffitista, passati a taggare le strade di San Francisco sotto pseudonimi come Ray Fong, Twist and Twisto, alimentano ancora il suo bisogno di imprimere sulla facciata bianca della vita moderna una traccia personale e artigianale. L'opera di McGee sintetizza una vasta gamma di risorse, compresa quella dei murales messicani, l'arte di strada anonima e la poesia beat di San Francisco, tutte spiccatamente caratterizzate da un'idea di appello pubblico che McGee non manca mai di esprimere. I suoi dipinti, disegni e installazioni traboccano di energia grafica e rabbia politica, e sono delle vere e proprie esortazioni a reagire alla vita che ci circonda. Barry McGee è nato nel 1968 a San Francisco, ha studiato al San Francisco Art Institute, e nella stessa città continua a vivere e lavorare. Ha tenuto mostre personali in diverse gallerie e musei, fra i quali il Rose Art Museum della Brandeis University, a Waltham, in Massachusetts, la galleria Deitch Projects di New York e la Fondazione Prada di Milano.

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Born in 1966 in San Francisco he graduated in 1991 at the SF Art Institute. Before entering official art circuits Barry McGee did outdoor interventions throughout the 90 s (his wall painting for the SFMOMA is famous). He held his first solo show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1998), following up with various exhibitions: 49th Venice Biennale (2001); Deitch Projects, New York (1999); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2002); Watari-um Museum, Tokyo (2007); Riverside Art Museum, Riverside (2008); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (2008). Together with his projects in museums and galleries McGee still does street work under the name of TWIST.

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Barry McGee's art buzzes with an infectious street vitality that celebrates the rich pageant of city living, while lambasting its ills, overstimulations, frustrations, addictions. His early years as a graffiti artist, tagging on the streets of San Francisco under such monikers as Ray Fong, Twist and Twisto, still nourish his drive to inscribe the blank face of modern life with the personal and the handmade. A part of the early 1990s art and graffiti boom associated with San Francisco's Mission School (others include Clare Rojas, Chris Johanson and Aaron Noble) and with the "Beautiful Loser" generation, McGee synthesizes a wide range of resources, including the Mexican muralists, anonymous street art and San Francisco Beat poetry, all of which are notably characterized by a sense of public address that McGee never neglects to convey in his own work. His paintings, drawings and installations spill over with graphic energy and political anger, and direct exhortations to his audience to respond to the life around them. This hardcover artist's book takes the form of a visual collage, incorporating photographs, drawings, paintings and documentation of past and present installations. It is the definitive volume on a much-loved artist.
Barry McGee was born in San Francisco in 1968 and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. He continues to live and work in that city. He has had solo exhibitions at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, Deitch Projects in New York and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.

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• Verlag: Damiani
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8862080964
• ISBN 13: 9788862080965
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
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