Christopher "Chris" Burden ( born Christopher "Chris" Burden ; April 11, 1946 , Boston , Massachusetts - May 10, 2015 , Los Angeles , California [4] ) is an American concept artist. He created some of his works in an art form such as Shock art .
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Boston , Massachusetts |
| Date of death | |
| A place of death | Los Angeles California |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Genre | performance , installation |
| Study | University of California, Irvine |
| Awards | Guggenheim Scholarship |
Content
- 1 Education
- 2 Biography and creativity
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Education
Chris Bourdain received a bachelor's degree in fine arts, physics and architecture from Pomona College, a master's degree from the University of California at Irvine (1969-1971).
Biography and Creativity
Bourdin's reputation as a performance artist began to grow in the early 1970s after he showed a series of provocative performances in which the idea of personal danger as a means of artistic expression was central. Sometimes these actions, especially if it was not possible to attract the attention of the public, were shot on a 16 mm film. Others survived only thanks to the stingy notes of Bourdin. For example, the performance “Quiet Through the Night,” Bourdain described as follows: “Main Street, Los Angeles, September 12, 1973. Holding my hands behind my back, I slowly, with difficulty, move along the broken glass. There are very few spectators, most just passers-by. ”
His most famous work of this time is the Performance Shot (Shoot, 1971), in which the artist's left hand was shot (with the help of an assistant) from a distance of about five meters. Bourdain was sent to a psychiatrist after this work. Many interpretations appeared in connection with this work. Many saw this as a declaration of the Vietnam War and the American right to bear arms. Other performances of the 1970s were Five Day Locker Piece (1971), Deadman (1972), BC Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), TV Hijack (1972), Doomed (1975) and Honest Labor (1979).
One of Bourdin's most famous performances, Trans-Fixed , was featured in 1974 at Speedway Avenue in Venice, California . During this performance, Bourdain lay face up on a Volkswagen Beetle , both of his hands nailed in such a way as if he had been crucified in a car. The car was pushed out of the garage and the engine was running for two minutes before the car was pushed back into the garage.
Later that year, Bourdin presented the White Light / White Heat performance at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York . During this performance, Bourdin spent twenty-two days lying on a triangular platform in the corner of the gallery. He was out of sight of the audience and he himself could not see them. According to Bourdain, he did not eat, talk, and did not go down all this time.
The Kunst Kick performance, shown at the opening of the Basel Arts Fair in 1974, was that Chris Bourdain lay down at the top of the two-span staircase, and Charles Hill kicked him, with Bourdain sliding down every two or three steps.
During another performance, Doomed , Bourdin lay motionless in the gallery under a tilted piece of glass and the clock that went by. Chris was ready to stay in that position until someone intervened in any way in the performance. Forty-five hours later, the guard put a jug of water at a reachable distance from the artist. Bourdain then broke the glass, putting an end to the performance.
In 1974, Chris Bourdin began working with video , using it as part of his performances, and to document his work and create conceptual television commercials.
In the late 1970s, Bourdin began to create sculptural objects, installations and technological or mechanical inventions, including the monumental BCar and The Big Wheel. The B-Car (1975) is a lightweight four-wheeled car, which he described as "capable of traveling at 100 mph." His other works of this period were DIECIMILA (1977), a copy of an Italian banknote of 10,000 lire, possibly the first work of art, which, like money, was printed on both sides of the paper. “The Speed of Light Machine” (1983) - a reconstruction of a scientific experiment aimed at seeing the speed of light; CBTV installation (1977) - reconstruction of a mechanical television.
In 1978, Chris Bourdain became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, a post that he left in 2005 due to disagreement over one of Bourdon’s performance students.
A large retrospective of his work, Chris Burden: A Twenty Year Survey, was organized at the 1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum, California. Chris Bourdin has exhibited and displayed his performances in many museums around the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris; de Appel, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery in London; The Baltic Center, Newcastle, England; 48th Venice Biennale; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Concept Art, San Francisco; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Whitney Museum Biennale, New York.
Notes
- ↑ Chris Burden
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Chris Burden dies: Artist's light sculpture at LACMA was symbol of LA . LA Times . Date of treatment May 10, 2015.
Links
- Gagosyan Gallery, presents Bourdin since 1991
- A review and analysis of Bourdin’s early works, published in May 1976 in the journal Artforum (inaccessible link from 03/14/2014 [2049 days] - history , copy )
- retrospective of Bourdin (1996)
- UbuWeb, video
- Chris Bourdain at Mediateca Media Art Space
- Lecture of Irina Kulik “Chris Byrden. Strength Tests ”at the Garage Museum of Modern Art