Elaine Sturtevant
Elaine Sturtevant ( b. 1930 in Lakewood (Ohio ), in the U.S.) is an American artist who is counted among the artists of appropriation art.
Life and work
After moving to New York City at the beginning of the 1960s, Sturtevant began in 1965 as a painter, sculptor, and object artist to copy the works of contemporary artists who are similar to the original detail. Thus, they introduced the concept of artistic originality on its head by it produced not a single original work.
At the beginning of her work as appropriation artist Sturtevant focused on American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, but then went on to make copies of works by European artists such as Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp. Since the early 1980s, she worked with works of the next generation of artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Felix Gonzalez -Torres.
Sturtevant used various artistic means of expression such as painting, sculpture, photography and film in order to make the copies. The critics are still not agreed on how the artist acquired the sense that art movements will be successful in the respective periods, as the originals of the copied works are now considered respectively as typical of the period.
Quote
" ... One would have to be retarded in the head, to demand the death of originality. "
Prizes and awards
- 2011: Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.
- 2013: Kurt Schwitters Prize of the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation, Hannover.