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Copyright the artist | | | Kosuth, Joseph (1945 - ) USA
One and Three Plants, 1965
Cardboard; Black and white photograph; Plant (Cactus); 0 x 0 cm Conceptualism
UID 102-321
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Biography
American conceptual artist and writer strongly interested in philosophy and the social sciences in general. He studied at the Toledo Museum School of Design between 1955 and 1962, and at the Cleveland Art Institute where he completed his studies as a painter. In 1965, he began producing works based on writing and, at the end of this decade, he became the American editor of the British publication Art & Language, for which he wrote numerous theoretical texts on Conceptual Art. He founded the Museum of Normal Art, one of the first American spaces to exhibit Conceptual Art, and where he held his first one-man show. During the 70s, he continued to place anonymous messages in public spaces, suggesting that art did not depend on the artist but, in fact, on the society it was part of. In the years that followed, he returned to gallery spaces, using reproductions of historic pictures and texts in works like Cathexis, towards developing his research into the functions of art. In 1972 and 1982, he took part in "documenta" 5 and 7, respectively, in Kassel. In 1992, he presented the installation, Documenta-Flânerie at "documenta" 9. Kosuth was one of the precursors of Analytic Conceptual Art.
Exhibitions
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Joseph Kosuth 1965 & 1967 Galerie Renée Ziegler (Zürich), Switzerland 01-02-1992 ~ 01-03-1992
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Joseph Kosuth 1965 & 1967, 1992 Published by Galerie Renée Ziegler
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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