Richard Bell (artist)

Richard Bell ( * 1953 in Charleville in Queensland; ) is an artist. He was born as an aboriginal tribe of the Kamilaroi. Bell is regarded as a committed political artist who has distinguished himself in recent years with his works of art in this direction and thus has become very well known.

Life

Bennet lives and works in Brisbane, where he studied from 1986 to 1988 at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. He completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts ( Fine Art ). He was a member of the Campfire group of artists in Brisbane, a group of artists.

Work

Richard Bell is one of the most political painters of Australia's presence: " Richard Bell Has established a reputation as a political commentator and " enfant terrible " in Indigenous art over the past several years". ( German: Richard Bell has made its mark with a reputation as a political commentator and enfant terrible of Aboriginal art over the years. ) The work of Bennett are abstract and primarily concerned with events and themes of the post-colonial Australia. After the terrorist attack on 9 November 2001, he created a series of works and in 2003 he created works in Camouflagestil that dealt with the war in Iraq.

His works are well known as nonsense, if they are composed of text and visualizations. He assumes art style and artistic statements by other artists and forms from works of art with its contents. He works as a painter, designs or performances rotate videos, where he deals with the relationship between whites and blacks. He combines traditional art and modern Aboriginal art.

He studied the protest: " Aboriginal Art - that's one thing the White! " Or " I do not need tax cuts. I want my whole country back ... " are statements that are looking for the opposition. He says: "White culture Took away my tribal language and in return gave me a language that, on the social level, does not work. " ( German: The white culture took me the language of my people, and gave me for a language which does not work in social relations. )

Since 1989, Bennett turned in 50 solo exhibitions internationally and nationally, such as the Biennale of Sydney, Venice Biennale, Kwangju, Shanghai, Cuba, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Prague in the Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Japan. He received several honors and awards, including the Mokt & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1991, the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria in 1997. He won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2003 for a 2, 40 times 2.40 meters wide work of synthetic colors on canvas.

He counted in 2003 among the 50 most demanded and collected Aboriginal artists.