Jack Goldstein
Jack Goldstein ( born September 27, 1945 in Montreal, Canada, † March 14 2003 in San Bernardino, California ) was an American conceptual and performance artist. He lived and worked in California and New York.
Life and work
Goldstein grew up in Canada in difficult circumstances. He received his education first at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He then studied at the newly opened California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and enrolled there in a John Baldessari and his " post- studio arts". In 1972 he took a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) his academic degree.
Originally from minimalism Coming, he developed in the 1970s, his performance art - experimental films and audio productions. In constant local exchange between Los Angeles and New York, he became the focus of so-called Pictures Group. 1976 emerged the first " records " that began Goldstein both as a traditional art objects as well as sound recordings. The first work A Suite of Nine 7- inch Records consisted of nine colorfully designed vinyl records, which was recorded with audio material from commercial archives. In 1978 he turned his consisting of short sequences, 16mm color silent movie " The Jump ". 1977 Goldstein took part in the organized by the art theorist Douglas Crimp at New York's Artists Space exhibition "Pictures". With his colleagues, Sherrie Levine and Roberto Longo he sat down here from both the Pop Art and Minimalism from starting, they were seen as representatives of a new generation of artists.
This group of artists, among them next to Goldstein, for example, Robert Longo, Troy Brown cloth and Phillip Smith, contributed significantly to the next boom of the 1980s. Goldstein himself but soon moved to the making of paintings and was known for his salon paintings. He left her for the most part of artisanal trained assistants to perform. His paintings, which were out of the " sensational moment " to hold, all based on existing photographs of natural phenomena, images of war, natural disasters or astronomical images. For the group to Goldstein, the California Institute of the Arts in New York spread the name CalArtsMafia, in reference to their common old school. The artist helped themselves "to get foot in the doors of galleries " the.
Goldstein left New York in the early 1990s and went back to California, where he spent the remaining years in relative isolation. Previously, he had a short time in Chicago lived on a farm and have to spend two months forced into a mental institution. There is also a borderline personality disorder was diagnosed. In recent years, Goldstein dealt reinforced with text works.
Eleven days after completing his autobiography, he took an apartment in San Bernardino life.
Goldstein was represented in 1982 with movies and paintings on the organized by Rudi Fuchs Documenta 7 in Kassel. His aphoristic catalog essay, he began with the phrase " Media is sensational ." On the Documenta 8 in 1987 were in the music library as " Acoustic Poetry" sound samples to hear from him.
Exhibitions
- 2002 Le Magasin, Centre National d' Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
- 2002 Jack Goldstein, Kunstverein in Hamburg
- 2006 Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- 2009 Jack Goldstein, Museum of Modern Art ( MMK), Frankfurt am Main
Autobiography
- Richard Hertz, Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia, Minneola Press, 2003, ISBN 0-96401654-0