Chris Newman (artist)

Chris Newman ( * October 19, 1958 in London; actually Christopher Newman) is a living in Berlin, British composer, painter, author and performance artist.

Life and work

Chris Newman is an experimental commuters between the fields of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. He studied from 1976 to 1979 at King's College in London and completed his studies with a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and began Russia's poems ( Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov ) to translate into English - the translation process from one medium to another should be decisive for its future work. Since 1979 created his own poems. In 1980, Newman to Cologne to study at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Mauricio Kagel. In 1982 he made ​​his first public on their own songs. In 1983, he formed the rock group Janet Smith and an ensemble to which Michael Riessler and Manos Tsangaris included ( disk recording in the Theater am Turm, Frankfurt). In 1984 he met Morton Feldman. There were performances and video films ( Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cooper Union, New York). 1985-1987 he realized performance like rock videos, later joint performances and exhibitions with Al Hansen and Emmett Williams, as well as recordings with Helmut Zerlett.

1989 Chris Newman began to paint in the sequence created since 1994 installations that combine two different media ( Installed concerts / live installations ); recently he presented his paintings increasingly sculptural and installation-, cutting the canvas and sew puts them together. Since the early eighties, Newman composed music concerts and performances for festivals and radio productions as well as orchestral works commissioned. They were, inter alia, in the Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, Dusseldorf (1994 ), in the National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, ( 1999) in the Diocesan Museum, Cologne, at the Donaueschingen Music Festival, Limelight Kortrjk, the Musée d ' to hear Art Moderne, Strasburg, Arp Museum Rolandseck and the Goethe-Institut Budapest and see. His paintings and drawings are represented in the museum columbaria, Cologne, the Neues Museum, Nuremberg, or the New Museum Weserburg, Bremen. Newman has published numerous books of poetry and prose and some CDs. After an initial phase in Cologne, he lived in Paris, London, Cologne and now again in Berlin. 2001/2002 he taught as a professor at the Art Academy in Stuttgart. As a composer, wrote Newman songs, choral works, sonatas, piano pieces and two piano concertos, the youngest of whom, Piano concerto no. 2 - Part 2, premiered at the Donaueschingen Music Days 2006.

Publications

• Drawing strings & writing thing. Edited by Gerhard Theewen. Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89770-257-6.
• Godded. Edited by Reiner Speck and Gerhard Theewen. Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-932189-44-2.
• Ghosts of Ibsen. Textbook occasion of the performance on 28 November 1996 at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89770-163-4.
• The 90's and notebooks. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89770-082-4.
• Recent Painting Mates. Exhibition catalog Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin 1999.
• Me in a no-time state. Exhibition catalog Archiepiscopal Diocesan Museum in Cologne, 1996.
• Norbert Prangenberg drawings / Chris Newman poems. Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-928989-07-3.
• Integrated Blake Paintings phrase. Exhibition Gallery Poller, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-9802858-2-0.
• It with itself. Exhibition catalog Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, Dusseldorf 1994.
• Eugene Dubnov. Poems / Poems 1979-90. Cologne 1993.
• With Norbert Prangenberg: Paintings. Exhibition Gallery Poller, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-9802858-0-4.