Denys Zacharopoulos

Denys Zacharopoulos (Greek Ντένης Ζαχαρόπουλος, born June 11, 1952 in Athens ) is an art historian and art theorist, who works as a professor of art history, author and curator, including for the 48th Venice Biennale and Documenta IX.

Life

Denys Zacharopoulos studied at the Athens Conservatory and Music from 1970 in France literature, semantics, and philosophy, history and sociology then the art and literature of Jean Cassou, Gaëtan Picon, Louis Marin and Roland Barthes. In 1975, Denys Zacharopoulos program coordinator of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Then stay in New York and taught at various art schools in Switzerland, Austria and Holland.

During this time, personal contacts with many artists of his generation, especially James Welling, Matt Mullican, Ernst Caramelle, Jean -Marc Bustamante, Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte and Reinhard Mucha.

Art Scientific activities

Key activities were first Arte Povera and the art of the 70s. Since 2001, extensive publications and exhibitions on artistic production and the question of the avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century.

  • Director of Domaine de Kerguehennec, France (1992-1999)
  • Co - director of the documenta IX in Kassel with Jan Hoet (1992 )
  • Inspector General of Contemporary Art in the French Ministry of Culture (1999)
  • Curator of the French Pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999)
  • Professor of Art History and Art Theory at the University of the Aegean on Lesbos (2000)
  • Artistic Director of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2006).

Publications

Catalogs and theoretical publications, and a over Gerhard Richter, Mario Merz, Gilberto Zorio, Giannis, Kounellis, Per Kirkeby, Eugene Leroy, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pat Steir, Carl Andre, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Jean -Pierre Bertrand, Marina Abramovic, Lothar Baumgarten, Marisa Merz, Jean -Marc Bustamante, Matt Mullican, Thomas Schütte, Jan Vercruysse, Helmut Dorner, Geylan Gerber, Klingelhöller, Franz West, Jim Lutes, Tadashi Kawamata, Reinhard Mucha, Adrian Schiess, Herbert Brandl, Jimmy Durham, Michel François, Eran Schaerf, Xavier Noiret - Thomé.

  • With Ulrich Look: Gerhard Richter. Schreiber, Munich 1984.
  • Reinhard Mucha: The figure / ground problem in the architecture of the Baroque period ( for you remains only the grave ). Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Per Kirkeby. Musée Saint- Pierre, Lyon 1987.
  • Gerhard Richter. Durand- Dessert, Paris 1991.
  • Jean -Marc Bustamante. Kröller -Müller, Otteloo 1994.
  • Per Kirkeby. Arts Club, Chicago, 2007.

Awards

  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic
  • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Athens Conservatoire Jean-Marc Bustamante Jannis Kounellis Marina Abramović Integrated Authority File
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