Ian Burn

Ian Burn ( born December 29, 1939 in Geelong, Australia, † September 29, 1993 in Milton, Australia) was an Australian conceptual artist, writer and journalist and former member of the art group Art & Language.

Life and work

Ian Burn visited the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne. He spent five years working as a carpenter. He left Australia in 1964. From 1965 to 1967 he lived in London.

Ian Burn was with Mel Ramsden co-founder of Art Press and the Society for Arts and Theoretical Analysis in New York City (The Society for Theoretical Art and Analysis) in 1969.

Ian Burn had his first Einzelaustelllung " performatif narratif piece " in November 1971 at the Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris.

Burn in 1971 a member of the artist group Art & Language and remained so until the mid- 1970s. He then returned, along with Terry Smith, also a former member of Art & Language, back to Australia, where they, together with Ian Milliss, a conceptual artist who began, in cooperation with the unions, a design studio specializing in social marketing and build community and trade union rights as an art initiative. From 1977 he taught at the University of Sydney.

Ian Burn was a member of Art & Language in 1972 participants of the Documenta 5 in Kassel with the project ' "Index 0001" in the department Idea Idea / light, along with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, David Bainbridge, Charles Harrison, Harold Hurrell, Mel Ramsden and the U.S. specialists for art Joseph Kosuth language. With Art & Language, he was represented at the Documenta 6 in 1977.

His works are included, among others, in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
  • Catalog for Documenta 6: Volume 1: painting, sculpture / Environment, Performance; Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video; Volume 3: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00- X
  • Marzona, Daniel: Conceptual Art; Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-8228-2959-5
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