Benutzer:Dckkrft/David Horvitz
Vorlage:Pp-vandalism Vorlage:Infobox artist David Horvitz is an American artist who uses art books, photography, performance art, and mail art as mediums for his work. He is known for his work in the virtual sphere.[1] He is currently in residence at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, New York City.[2]
Personal life and education
Horvitz was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California.[3] He has a BA from the University of California, Riverside, CA, an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and studied abroad at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [4]Vorlage:Cn
Work
Horvitz uses art books, photography, performance art, watercolor, and mail art as mediums for his work.[5][6][7]
The 1970s conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader has been an important influence on Horvitz's art.[8] Horvitz's movie “Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film”,[9] for example, shows a silent black and white clip a few seconds long of a man riding a bicycle into the sea. This evokes the imagery of Ader's works around the theme of falling and the myth surrounding Ader's disappearance at sea.[10] Horvitz's book “Sad, Depressed People” relates back to Ader's movie “I'm too sad to tell you” in that all of the stock images Horvitz collected show people with their heads in their hands, as does Ader.[11]
In 2009, Horvitz started the “241543903/Head-in-a-Freezer” meme. People were encouraged to take a picture of their heads in a freezer and upload the image with the tag “241543903”. That way everyone could see each other's images by Googling “241543903”. The meme first gained popularity on Orkut, Google's social network in Brazil. Horvitz spread the word by sending 100 fliers to a friend in Brazil who handed them out to random young people. It is a rare case where an internet meme was spread through IRL means.[12][13]
In 2013, he created The Distance of a Day (two digital videos, 12 minutes each), an installation showing sunset and sunrise from opposite points on the globe, near Los Angeles and in the Maldives respectively, recorded at the same moment. The sunset and sunrise were shown side by side on the actual phones (two iPhones) that recorded the scenes. The installation was exhibited at the Art Basel fair in June 2013.[3][14][15][16]
On July 18, 2013, as part of an online one-day project named Artist Breakfast, he "invited artists all over the world to share photos and short descriptions of their morning meals with online audiences throughout the day."[17][18]
Horvitz's Gnomons was exhibited at the New Museum in 2014, featuring four works based on the concept of time. The final work was a performance piece titled Let us Keep our Own Noon, where volunteers rang brass bells in the streets around the museum at solar noon and then walked away from each other until they could not hear other bells.[19][20][21]
His work also includes "A Wikipedia Reader", a mind map of artists' browsing of Wikipedia.Vorlage:Fact
His work Public Access (2010) includes photographs of himself at various public beaches in California which were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons and then inserted into the Wikipedia pages, and the subsequent reaction of the Commons and Wikipedia communities to his actions. These actions included criticism of the quality and artistry of the images, suspicion of the uploader's motives, and deletion of most of the images and/or removal of himself from the images. Public Access is "the piece for which he is most well known"[13] and is one of his projects which existed "only for a short time."[22] Before all items were deleted, Horvitz printed them out, bound them and covertly implanted the bound books in the history sections of local libraries along the California Coast.[23]
In 2014, his "somewhere in between the jurisdiction of time" was displayed at Blum & Poe, featuring water collected from the Pacific Ocean between the Pacific and Alaska Time Zones kept in handmade glass bottles and shown in a straight North/South line. Andrew Berardini described the work as creating "some weird uncrossable divide...The mere suggestion of a demarcation forces our moves".[24]
His published work includes: Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project (2007), Everything that can happen in a day (2010), and Sad, Depressed, People (2012).
He has exhibited at SF Camerawork, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and Tate Modern.[25][26][27]
References
Further reading
- Boris Pofalla: Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind: David Horvitz. In: Monopol. Nr. 7, Juli 2013, S. 32–33 (wordpress.com [PDF; abgerufen am 27. Juli 2014]).
- ↑ Rachel Mason: Cloud Galleries: The Rise of the Virtual Art Establishment In: The Huffington Post, 7 July 2014. Abgerufen im 26 July 2014
- ↑ “Studio Visit: David Horvitz (Pioneer Works)”, MTV November 2014
- ↑ a b Referenzfehler: Ungültiges
<ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen Daily Beast. - ↑ “David Horvitz” Blum & Poe press release. July 2014
- ↑ David Horvitz CV. Gallery West, abgerufen am 2. September 2013.
- ↑ David Horvitz bio, Foam Magazine
- ↑ Nancy VanReece: Venture off the path in September In: Out & About Nashville, September 1, 2008. Abgerufen im 30 July 2014 „...along with the work of Grant Worth and David Horvitz, two contemporary photographers based out of New York City.“
- ↑ July 16, 2009 : Los Angeles Times. Latimesblogs.latimes.com, 16. Juli 2009, abgerufen am 17. April 2012.
- ↑ [This video was originally uploaded anonymously to YouTube but then removed as a hoax, since it was not by Bas Jan Ader]
- ↑ Sarah-Neel Smith “David Horvitz in Chinatown”, Artslant Los Angeles, 27 July 2009
- ↑ Rachel Peddersen “In conversation with David Horvitz”, Andreview, Fall & Winter 2013
- ↑ Jay Hathaway, “241543903 - The Story Behind the 'Head-in-a-Freezer' Image Meme”, Urlesque 31 December 2010
- ↑ a b Sara Roffino: EMERGING: David Horvitz's Multiversed, Multimedia and Oft-Absurdist Art VIDEO. BlouinArtInfo, abgerufen am 23. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Suvi Lehtinen: Local Colour? Artfetch, 12. Juli 2013, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Aoife Rosenmeyer: Art Basel, Basel, June 13–16, 2013. Art Agenda, 13. Juni 2013, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Art Basel - Basel - June 13-16 2013 - Floorplan. Art Basel, 2013, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2014.; ARTBASEL2013_MEG_13_070_Chert. Art Basel, 2013, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Sarah Cascone: The Art World Eats Breakfast All Day Long In: Art in America, 18 July 2013. Abgerufen im 26 July 2014
- ↑ Harriet Staff: David Horvitz Would Like to Invite You to Breakfast, Poetry News, 16 July 2013. Abgerufen im 26 July 2014
- ↑ Nikki Lohr: In Search of New Time: David Horvitz at the New Museum, Gallerist, 27 June 2014. Abgerufen im 26 July 2014
- ↑ Roberta Smith: Sounds of all but Silence In: New York Times, 22 May 2014. Abgerufen im 26 July 2014
- ↑ David Horvitz: Gnomons. New Museum, abgerufen am 28. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Jacob Fabricius: What color is your parachute, David Horvitz? In: Mousse Magazine. Nr. 38. Milan, S. 168–171 (englisch, and, italienisch, wordpress.com [PDF]).
- ↑ Nathaniel Vonk, “Review: Requiem for the Bibliophile at MCASB: Mourning the Loss of Books, One Art Installation at a Time”, Santa Barbara Independent, 17 September 2014
- ↑ Andrew Berardini: David Horvitz. Art Agenda, 29. Juli 2014, abgerufen am 10. August 2014.
- ↑ As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration. SF Camerawork, abgerufen am 2. September 2013. Fehler beim Aufruf der Vorlage:Cite web: Archiv im Parameter URL erkannt. Archive müssen im Parameter Archiv-URL angegeben werden.
- ↑ Artist Breakfast. MoMA, abgerufen am 2. September 2013.
- ↑ Lumi Tan: Free. Frieze, abgerufen am 2. September 2013.
