Denis Bowen

Denis Bowen ( born April 5, 1921 in Kimberley South Africa, † 23 March 2006) was an informal painter. He was instrumental in the 1956 founding of the New Vision Centre Gallery, which was one of the most important addresses for Young Art in London soon and for sharing with the rest of Europe has played a key role.

Life

Denis Bowen graduated in 1946 from the Royal College of Art, founded in 1951 the " New Vision Group ", which later became the New Vision Centre should emerge Gallery. He was a professor at several universities worldwide, and his works are part of public and private collections, including the prestigious London's Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.Er belonged to the English painters of the postwar period, which prescribed the abstract art. Already during his school years admired constructivist object works by Ben Nicholson and felt connected with artists of Penwith Society of Artists in St.Ives (Cornwall). He began with abstract color compositions, but was not a consistent Tachist because he too was on a constructivist framework. Bowens worked with John Coplans, a co-founder of Artforum.

Work

In April 1957, the Redfern Gallery in London held an exhibition ' metavisueller Malerei'und presented to the public a new school. Denis Bowen participated with a greatly reduced color image was brownish black paint flow or spill over a silver base. A years later, Denis Bowen founded with artist friends a gallery and called it " New Vision Centre Gallery ". Here saw Joachim Reinke, an employee of the gallery Dagmar Wirth, these new works and gave an exhibition exchange of both galleries. Günter Wirth took over a number of works in his collection and showed it frequently in group exhibitions.