Stan Douglas (Eng. Stan Douglas , * October 11, 1960. Vancouver ) is a contemporary Canadian artist, photographer, who also works in the fields of art, installation and video.
Content
- 1 Life and work
- 2 Exhibitions (favorites)
- 2.1 Group
- 2.2 Personal
- 3 Awards (Favorites)
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 5.1 Monographs
- 5.2 Exhibition catalogs
- 5.3 Articles
- 6 Additions
Life and work
He graduated from the University of Vancouver Emily Carr of Art and Design. As an artist, he is known in the international arena since the 1990s. The works of S. Douglas were presented at the exhibitions of contemporary art Documenta IX in 1992, Documenta X in 1997, Documenta XI in 2002 in Kassel , Germany; participant of the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005. The work of Stan Douglas in the fields of filmography, photography and video installation, as well as his work on television, is often associated with literary classics and philosophy, with authors such as Samuel Beckett , Ernst Theodor A. Hoffmann , Marcel Proust , the Brothers Grimm , Karl Marx and others. In the introduction to one of Douglas’s monographs, the German literary critic Friedrich H. Flick characterizes his work as “a critical analysis of our social reality” (“eine kritische Analyse unserer gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit”).
Between 2000 and 2006, Stan Douglas was a professor of media at the Berlin University of the Arts ([Universität der Künste Berlin). Since the university leadership limited his ability to conduct his lectures, the artist leaves the university in protest.
The most famous works of S. Douglas in areas such as film and video creativity. Here, the master goes to create and conduct innovative experiments that visually change the course of time and the usual spatial dimensions for the viewer. The construction of unusual aspects of vision on things familiar to us is characteristic not only of the artist’s films, but also of his photographs.
Exhibitions (Favorites)
Group
- 2005: Biennale, Venice
- 2002: Documenta 11, Kassel
- 2001: Biennale, Venice
- 1997: Documenta X, Kassel
- 1997: “Sculpture, Designs”, Münster
- 1995: Carnegie International
- 1995: Whitney Biennial
- 1992: Documenta IX, Kassel
- 1990: Biennale, Venice
Personal
- 2014: Stan Douglas: Mise en scène. Munich
- 2007/2008: Stan Douglas. Past Imperfect. Werke 1986 - 2007. , State Gallery, Stuttgart
Awards (Favorites)
- 2016: Hasselblad Award
- 2013: Scotia Bank Photography Award ( Scotiabank Photography Award)
- 2008: Bell Award in Video Art, Government of Canada
- 2001: Arnold Bode Prize of Kassel (Arnold-Bode-Preis).
- 1996: Nomination for the Hugo Boss Prize, New York.
Notes
Literature
Monographs
- Dora Imhof: Wie erzählt "Der Sandmann"? Multiple Erzählung in den Film- und Videoinstallationen von Stan Douglas. Schreiber Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 9783889600851 , Dissertation (in German).
- Philip Monk: Stan Douglas. DuMont-Verlag, Köln 2006, ISBN 9783832177294 (in German).
- Scott Watson, Diana Thater, Carol J. Clover: Stan Douglas. Phaidon Press, London 1998, ISBN 0714837962 (in English).
Exhibition Catalogs
- Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler (ed.): Stan Douglas. Past Imperfect. Werke 1986-2007. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3775720205 .
- Léon Krempel (ed.): Stan Douglas: Mise en scène. Prestel Verlag, München 2014, ISBN 978-3791353470 .
Articles
- Jason Farago: Stan Douglas' Circa 1948: 'It's not a game, it's a story'. One of Canada's great artists is back with a project that explores Vancouver's historical hotels, gambling dens and beer halls. in: The Guardian, 22. April 2014 [1]
- Catrin Lorch: Bar von gestern. Der Künstler Stan Douglas erweist sich mit einer Ausstellung in München als einer der großen Re-Animateure unserer Zeit. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Nr. 141, 23. Juni 2014, S. 9, ISSN 0174-4917 .
Add-ons
- [1] - materials about Stan Douglas in the Documenta archive.