Simon Starling
Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, Surrey ) is an English artist.
Life
He was educated at the Glasgow School of Art After that, he worked at museums and galleries in Scotland as a photographer to document the collections and exhibitions. Since 2005 he lives in Berlin and Glasgow.
Works
Starling works in the field of conceptual art. His interest is material nature, contextualisation and the idea of efficiency in terms of power efficiency (cycle efficiency ).
This approach has led, inter alia, 2004 for his work Tabernas Desert Run, for which he drove 66 km on a bicycle betriebenem with a hydrogen power cell through the desert of Tabernas. The only emission of this tour water remained, which he used to paint in water color a cactus, which he had discovered on the trip. Tabernas Desert Run was part of the Turner Prize exhibition.
With Shedboatshed ( Mobile Architecture No 2 ) 2005 was Starling attention in the press. From a wooden shed he built a boat in which he traveled up the Rhine to Basel, where he again reconstructed the woodshed at the Museum of the boat.
In One Ton, II he thematized 2005 Energy expenditure and mass implementation, leading to the production of platinum. Starling showed five identical crystals of platinum plated handmade photographic prints an ore mine in South Africa. From ten tons of ore 0.28 gram of platinum can be obtained.
In 2007 he built for the Museum Folkwang in Essen from photographs by Albert Renger- Patzsch a showroom in the early 1930s after and provided him with the original pieces, and with faithful photographic reproduction (replica ).
In the Brazilian Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais, he built a memorial against the exploitation taking place here. A on a mast above a sea of flowers floating mahogany ship to commemorate the nearly extinct mahogany.
2010 turned Starling in Japan the 25 -minute film Project for a Masquerade. ( Hiroshima ), which was shown in June 2013 in the IG -Building of Campus Westend of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from the Städel Museum in the Study Gallery 1357.
Awards
- 2004: Hugo Boss Prize
- 2005: Turner Prize