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OVERVIEW
Attributes
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About the artist
Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker, draftsman, and painter. From 1961 to 1962 he studied on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 2002 Haacke was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City.During his formative years in Germany, he was a member of Zero (an international group of artist, active ca. 1957-1966). This group was held together with common motivations: the longing to re-harmonize man and nature and to restore art's metaphysical dimension. They sought to organize the pictorial surface without using traditional devices.
Although their methods differed greatly, most of the work was monochromatic, geometric, kinetic, and gestural.But most of all they used nontraditional materials such as industrial materials, fire and water, light, and kinetic effects. The influence of the Zero group and the materials they used is clear in Haacke's early work from his paintings that allude to movement and expression to his early installations that are formally minimal and use earthly elements as materials.Other artists that may interest you
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EXHIBITIONS
Past exhibitions
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NOV 08, 2012 - FEB 17, 2013
Group ExhibitionEpisiodios críticos (1957-2011)
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA - Barcelona, Spain
Since the sixties, contemporary art has been associated with periodic crises. These events have not only affected art, they have had a global impact. From the self-reflective criticisms offered by modern painting to the efforts to make sense of a world that... -
FEB 01 - MAR 09, 2013
Group ExhibitionA STONE LEFT UNTURNED
Yvon Lambert - Paris - Paris, France
Yvon Lambert is thrilled to present A Stone Left Unturned, a group show curated by Simon Castets. Starting in the early 1970s, Yvon Lambert was the first one to introduce conceptual art and minimal art in France through their main American representatives:... -
FEB 02 - APR 14, 2013
Group ExhibitionLove is Colder than Capital. An Exhibition About the Value of Feelings
Kunsthaus Bregenz - Bregenz, Austria
The title of the large-scale group exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz "Love is Colder than Capital" has been filched: it comes from the play of the same name by the controversial post-dramatic stage director René Pollesch, whose works deal with the... -
APR 19 - SEP 08, 2013
Group ExhibitionCONTINENTAL DRIFT Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s
Badischer Kunstverein - Karlsruhe, Germany
Part I: 19.04.-23.06.2013 Opening: Thursday, 18 April, 7 pm Part II: 28.06.-08.09.2013 Opening: Thursday, 27 June, 8 pmFrom April to September 2013, Badischer Kunstverein is hosting a major exhibition and events project on conceptual art in Canada, specifically,...
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