Alex Bag
Alex Bag (* 1969 in New York City ) is an American artist who accompanied the mass medium of television and the art business mainly with video art critical.
Life and work
The father of Alex Bag worked in advertising. His professional productions seemed Alex Bag in their childhood " as exciting and important as traditional fine arts " to be. After graduating as a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cooper Union College in 1991, Alex Bag had in 1994 represents the first solo exhibition in New York's " 303 Gallery ", the well-known contemporary artists. Alex Bag has taught at Yale University, at the Parsons School of Design, at the Californian Institute of the Arts, and has worked at the Getty Research Institute.
At work Alex Bag interactions between high and popular culture are visible. The artist also analyzed structural characteristics and economic laws of the art world. There are different areas of the media and consumer culture touches, like soap operas, fashion and advertising. Often it is about the television culture: "Television is terrible, but I can not stop to look, it is expected so much that your free time is to be such that it is accepted to spend the time only as an absorber and zombie I feel. . forced myself to respond to in order to react somehow as a person. " In her video performances, which she opposes the mass medium of television, Alex Bag comes with irony and humor into a variety of roles.
Although Alex Bag as the pop artistes refers to pop culture and mass media, their work is critical of society. " Pop Art has many good sides, but also terrible, I think. The pop artists accepted their situation and allowed themselves to take on the world around them to refer to look at them, be inspired by it and to examine them in order not to be isolated in an ivory tower of her., but at the same time, they limited themselves so much on the gloss of the surfaces. repeating popular imagery without really saying anything, it is free from politics. "
Artistic works
In the video Untitled case '95 (1995 ) Alex Bag plays a fictional art student, which tells about her alleged life and study at the School of Visual Arts, a leading private art college in New York City. As in a video diary speaks the student thoughts on life and art directly into the camera. The sections of the diary are separated or supplemented by clips on various topics. Content plays the video with the romantic notion of the artist and disillusionment in the art world.
In the video Untitled ( Project for the Andy Warhol Museum) ( 1996) the experience of zapping and channel surfing is repeated. The short commercials, excerpts from TV talk shows with celebrities, soap operas and news programs are produced by the artist herself.