John Fekner

John Fekner (* 1950 in New York City ) is an American artist, composer and photographer. Fekner is a multimedia artist who has hundreds of environmental and conceptual graphics has designed consisting of stenciled words and symbols in New York, Germany, Sweden, Canada and England under the open sky. As a pioneer in the street art movement painted Fekner 1968, the words " Itchycoo Park" in large white letters on an empty building in Gorman Park, New York.

Fekner can look back on a wide range of works that he has created during his career, and that may seem inconsequential at first glance. He is an artist who puts everything that seems important to him in motion to convey a vision or message, and whose work is changing continuously, as soon as his vision grows. Fekners areas of interest range from general concepts of perception and conversion to specific ecological and sociological issues, such as urban decay, toxic chemicals, advertising, mass media, clergy to the history of Native Americans. Fekner developed his own philosophy with the central statement " reducing the value of an art object to did of a shared visual experience for the public community" ( " The value of a work of art to the limit of a common visual experience of the public" ). Meanwhile, there are also projects that were created specifically for the Internet. Among his works is Fekner paintings, sculptures, computer-generated video and audio works as well as various online projects. He is known for more than three hundred " ecological / conceptual " works, which consist of data, words, symbols, templates and outdoor plants.

Bibliography (selection)

Steel, John, " On the wall " Dumont Paperbacks, 1989 ISBN 3-7701-2363-8
Lemoine, Stéphanie, " L'art urbain ", Publisher: Gallimard, Paris, France 2012 ISBN 2070445828 EAN 978-2070445820
Ault, Julie, Alternative Art, New York, 1965-1985. University of Minnesota Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8166-3794-6
Edlin, Jay, Andrew Witten, "Graffiti 365 " Publisher: Abrams Books, NY 2011 ISBN 0-8109-9744-4 ISBN 978-0810997448
Deitch, Jeffrey, Gastman, Roger, Rose, Aaron, "Art in the Streets ', Skira Rizzoli, 2011 ISBN 0-8478-3648-7
Howze, Russell, Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art, Manic D Press, San Francisco, CA 2008 ISBN 978-1-933149-22-6
Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society, The New Press, NY 1997, ISBN 1-56584-247-2
Lucy Lippard, Get The Message -A Decade Of Social Change, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1985 ISBN # 0525242562
Taylor, Marvin J., Gumpert, Lynn, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12286-5

Discography

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John Fekner New York City United States

Lucy R. Lippard David Wojnarowicz Berlin

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