James Rizzi

James Rizzi ( born October 5, 1950 in New York City; † December 26, 2011 ) was an American artist and painter of pop art.

Life

James Rizzi was born to a mother of Irish descent and a father of Italian family and grew up as one of three children in Brooklyn, New York on the East 8th Street. Rizzi graduated in at Holy Innocents Grammar School, Brooklyn, and then attended Erasmus High School, also in Brooklyn. From 1969 he studied art at the University of Florida in Gainesville. During his studies he focused on the combination of painting and sculpture, and finally developed the technique commonly used by him to the 3D graphics. After completing his studies in 1974 he had the first opportunity to present his work at New York's Brooklyn Museum to the public.

With growing popularity, galleries and museums began to be interested in his works, but also alongside painting found Rizzi a wide range of activities by, among other things disks / CD covers, animation, music videos and a wide range of commodities, from phone cards to Rosenthal porcelain, crafted. Numerous solo exhibitions and awards were the result, in his lifetime was James Rizzi one of the most popular contemporary artists of Pop Art

Rizzi has been engaged several times in cooperation with German organizations for charitable purposes. For example, in an in collaboration with the " Lions Club Krefeld Rheintor " the proceeds of a complete signed and limited edition lithograph of "Gone With The Wind " to the victims of the hurricane disaster in New Orleans. For Peter Maffay organized under the auspices of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel project "Encounters " for the benefit of needy children Rizzi took over the sponsorship for a school project of the Lakota Indian tribe in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

Style

Rizzi's work has often his hometown of New York and its inhabitants to content. The pictures are mostly held by almost childishly naive simplicity and in very bright colors and radiate happiness, joy and optimism of urban life, giving him the name "Urban Primitive Artist" earned by the art press.

In the three-dimensional engineering design characteristic for him to be a duplicate of the image, which serves as a background, cut out the pixels of the foreground and set in a second image plane using bridges made ​​of foam or similar materials. This gives the viewer, also by the formation of shadows, a generated by the two levels of 3D effect.

Projects (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: Exhibition on the occasion of the publication of the special stamp series " greetings for any occasion ", Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main, in collaboration with Galerie am Dom
  • 2008: " World's largest James Rizzi exhibition " Rheingold Halle, Mainz
  • 2008: Exhibition James Rizzi - Printmaking, Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig
  • 2010: James Rizzi exhibition to mark the 60th birthday in Bremen
  • 2010: exhibition 60 years James Rizzi - The World's Largest Free exhibition at the New York pop - artist in Centro Oberhausen
  • 2011: James Rizzi exhibition exhibition in Kevelaer in concert and stage Kevelaer
  • 2012: Exhibition James Rizzi Memorial Exhibition in Heimbach / Eifel in the International Art Academy Castle Hengebach

Books (selection)

  • James Rizzi: New York, Prestel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7913-1644-3.
  • James Rizzi, Peter Buehrer: My New York Cookbook, Hahn, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87287-432-2.
  • James Rizzi, Peter Buehrer: American Cookies and more, Southwest, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-517-06323-1.
  • James Rizzi, Glenn O'Brien: James Rizzi. Artwork 1993-2006 by Art28, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-9811238-0-8.
  • With Peter Buehrer: My New York City. Mair DuMont, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8297-0639-1.
Gainesville (Florida) Lakota people Frank Appel Volkswagen New Beetle Braunschweig Heilbronn Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft Integrated Authority File
428612
de