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Abramović, Marina  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Yugoslav, 20th–21st century, female.

Active in the Netherlands.

Born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade (now in Serbia).

Performance artist. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art, Body Art.

Marina Abramović studied at the fine arts academy in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970 and began executing her first performance pieces, films, and videos between 1973 and 1976. She taught at the fine arts academy of Novi Sad from 1973 to 1975, the year she met Ulay in Amsterdam. They not only shared the same birth date but also the same artistic concerns. That meeting was described thus: ‘When we met for the first time in Amsterdam in 1975, we decided to meet up again on neutral territory, somewhere between Amsterdam and Belgrade. We chose Prague, which is exactly in the middle.’ From that time until the late 1980s, they lived and worked together. They describe their collaborative works as ‘relation-work’, a phrase that expresses their desire for total fusion....

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Acconci, Vito  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th century, male.

Born 24 January 1940, in New York.

Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.

Body Art, Conceptual Art.

Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....

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Achour, Boris  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1966, in Marseilles.

Installation artist, sculptor, action artist, photographer.

Conceptual Art.

Boris Achour, who was a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, received a three-month extra-mural bursary from the Villa Médicis that he spent in Los Angeles in ...

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Ader, Bas Jan  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Dutch, 20th century, male.

Active in the USA from 1963.

Born 1942, in Winschoten; died 1975, while crossing the Atlantic.

Performance artist, happenings artist, installation artist, photographer.

Conceptual Art.

Bas Jan Ader settled in the USA when he was 21 years old, and studied art and philosophy at the University of California in Irvine, where he would later teach. After ...

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Agnetti, Vicenzo  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 1926, in Milan; died 1981.

Collage artist, mixed media. Artists' books.

Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.

Vicenzo Agnetti's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions of international contemporary art, including Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany (1972) and Biennale in Venice (...

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Agullo, Thierry  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1945, in Bordeaux; died 1980, in Barbézieux (Charente).

Assemblage artist.

Conceptual Art, Art Sociologique (Sociological Art).

Thierry Agullo showed a 'collection' of horseshoes collected from around the world in 1973 in Paris, each presented with its own references. In 1974...

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Ahtila, Eija-Liisa  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Finnish, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in Helsinki.

Born 1959, in Hämeenlinna.

Video installation artist, film producer, photographer, performance artist.

Conceptual Art.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila was a student at the university of Helsinki from 1980 to 1985 and studied film and video at the London College of Painting. In ...

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Alatalo, Sally  

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19 September 2014
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 19 November 1960, in L’Anse (Michigan).

Book artist, poet, performance artist, publisher, educator. Artists’ books, wallpaper.

Conceptual Art.

Sally Alatalo completed her undergraduate degree in fine art at Kansas City Art Institute in 1982 and her master’s degree in fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in ...

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Albert, Stéphane  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1971, in Nanterre.

Draughtsman, sculptor.

Conceptual Art.

Albert lives and works in Paris and Nice. Stéphane Albert enquires into things and their relative individuality. He also plays upon the ordinariness of his family name, which he has made a subject of his work as an artist. He 'draws', which is to say, writes, copies of pages of books having characters by the name of Albert. By this process, he shows the desperation of the contemporary hero. In the same vein, he also produces formal duplicates in wood of various familiar objects (garbage, crates, palettes, rubble), achieving almost their dematerialisation before giving them a new singularity through his artistic gesture....

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Albinet, Jean-Paul  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1954, in Albi.

Painter.

Conceptual Art, Mec'Art.

Group Untel.

Jean-Paul Albinet founded, with Philippe Cazal and Alain Snyers, the Untel group in 1975, whose multiple operations examined the everyday social, political, economic and intimate lives of the French in urban milieux. The most successful work of the group was undoubtedly ...

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Alcaraz-Laus, Rodolpho  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Mexican, 20th century, male.

Born 1936, in Mexico.

Artist. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art.

Alcaraz-Laus was noticed at the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris in 1971. Under the title Double 1, he presented an encounter between a dancer and that dancer's image, a conceptual production revolving around the theme of the body and its representation, one that was in favour at that time....

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Altamira, Adriano  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 17 July 1947, in Milan.

Painter, sculptor, theorist.

Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.

Adriano Altamira put forward his first critical observations on the phenomena of vision in 1967. Next he began to use minimalist structures, plaits and interlacings, like some of the methods used in France by the ...

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Amiard, Bernard  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 4 August 1948, in Paris.

Installation artist.

Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.

Bernard Amiard's work can be compared to that of Arte Povera. He combines substances, texture and image. He mostly uses neon as a graphic medium. He leans towards a redefinition of objects as brute materials and their reciprocating relationships....

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Anselmo, Giovanni  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Italian, 20th century, male.

Active in Turin.

Born 1934, in Borgofranco d'Ivrea.

Installation artist.

Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.

Giovanni Anselmo is one of the exponents of Arte Povera (It. 'poor art'), the singular movement that was expressed in many physical forms. It was founded in Italy and remained Italian in character, despite obviously influencing conceptual artists in other countries. Arte Povera falls within the vast movement of conceptual art that swept over the art scene in the 1960s, historically a time of social, political and ethical protest. Arte Povera challenged art itself above all else. A Zen influence, conscious or subconscious depending on the work, is also discernible in the invitation to contemplate a pile of pebbles presented as a work or a non-work of art, or any other object that the eyes and the mind regularly take for granted.The term Arte Povera was coined by Germano Celant (the movement's main instigator and historian) in ...

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Araeen, Rasheed  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Pakistani, 20th century, male.

Active in Britain.

Born 1935, in Karachi.

Installation artist, painter, sculptor.

Conceptual Art.

Araeen initially studied to be a civil engineer. He has exhibited in Karachi, New York and in a number of British cities. His work often addresses issues facing ethnic groups in Britain. He is also a writer and editor and founded the ...

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Arakawa, Shusaku  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Japanese, 20th century, male.

Active in the USA since 1961.

Born 6 July 1936, in Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture).

Painter.

Conceptual Art.

Neo-Dadaist Organisers group.

Shusaku Arakawa studied medicine and mathematics at Tokyo University (1954-1958) and art at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. He began his career in the 1960s when he concerned himself with the representation of impossible space, which corresponded to Marcel Duchamp’s scientific interest in the fourth dimension. In 1960 he was involved in anti-art and Neo-Dadaism in Tokyo and produced his first happenings....

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Areal, Antonio  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Portuguese, 20th century, male.

Born 1934; died 1978.

Painter.

Conceptual Art.

Compared with other Portuguese artists, Antonio Areal was relatively isolated. After a period in which his work was Informel, yet close to the experiments in Surrealism, he wrote an important work on Conceptual Art....

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Art & Language  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

British, 20th century, male.

Painters, installation artists.

Conceptual Art.

The term Art & Language was coined in England in 1968 by Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell, who had already collaborated on various projects. In 1971, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden joined this group of conceptual artists, along with Philip Pilkington, David Rushton and Charles Harrison. In May ...

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Asher, Michael  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th century, male.

Born 1943, in Los Angeles; died 14 October 2012.

Painter.

Conceptual Art.

Michael Asher studied at the University of California, Irvine, and now lives and works in Los Angeles and in Venice. Like many Conceptual artists, he addresses the issue of how artefacts are presented and viewed, and negates the role of the artist. With his contribution to ...

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Atkinson, Terry  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

British, 20th century, male.

Born 1939, in Barnsley (Yorkshire).

Painter, assemblage artist, mixed media.

Conceptual Art.

Art & Language group.

Terry Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, Yorkshire in 1939. He studied at Barnsley Art School from 1959 to 1964 and then completed a degree at the Slade School of Art. He taught at the Art Colleges in Birmingham and then Coventry. He is currently a tutor at the school of fine art at the University of Leeds, and much of his own work is made in the studio provided at Leeds....