Nam June Paik
dal 23/4/2002 al 22/6/2002
Segnalato da
23/4/2002
Nam June Paik
Galerie Proarta, Zurich
In this exhibition Gallery Proarta shows 11 'Video Sculptures' by Nam June Paik from 1995-2001, as well as 4 paintings from 2001.
Video Sculptures
In this exhibition Gallery Proarta shows 11 "Video Sculptures" by Nam June Paik from 1995-2001, as well as 4 paintings from 2001.
Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1932. From 1952 to 1956 he studied music and aesthetics at the University of Tokyo. In 1956 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany: he studied music at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, and worked with the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt, before joining FLUXUS, with whom he made performance art, experimental music and 'anti-films' (e.g. the imageless Zen for Film, 1962). His Neo-Dada performances in Cologne during this period included a celebrated encounter with John Cage, during which he formed a lasting friendship with the avant-garde composer by cutting off his tie. Inspired by Cage's 'prepared piano', in which the timbre of each note was altered by inserting various objects between the strings, Paik's experiments from 1959 with television sets, in which the broadcast image was modified by magnets, culminated in his seminal exhibition Exposition of Music-Electronic Television (1963) at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, Germany.
Ever since, Nam June Paik has become internationally known as a video artist, performance artist, musician, sculptor, film maker, writer and teacher, living in Germany and the United States.
He is generally regarded as the first artist to have comprehensively realized the potential of television and video, and, since 1980 laser, as an artist's medium.
Image: Jeong, Ji-Yong - 1996 - Mixed Media - 250 x 100 x 130 cm
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