Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin ( born 1941 in Sheffield, England) is a British artist and co-founder of the conceptual art of the 60s.

Burgin studied art from 1962 to 1965 at the Royal College of Art, London ( ARCA, 1st Class, 1965) before graduating in the U.S. at Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA 1967). He lives and works in San Francisco. Victor Burgin has taught at Goldsmiths College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Victor Burgin was known as a concept artist. Burgin works with photography and film - he called painting " as anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with colored mud ". His work is strongly influenced by various theorists and philosophers, notably by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. His work deals with the juxtaposition of text and image, as well as the presentation and representation of women and fetish.

1986 Burgin was nominated in recognition of different exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge as well as a collection of his theoretical writings and essays ( The End of Theory and Between) for the Turner Prize.

Exhibitions

  • 2010 - Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne: _digitale video projection Dovedale
  • 2009 - Hôtel Berlin, Campagne Première, Berlin
  • 1998 - Love Letters, Möcsarnok ( Kunsthalle ) Budapest
  • 1992 - Passages, Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France
  • 1991 - Passages, Musee d' Art Moderne Villeneuve d' Ascq, Villeneuve d' Ascq, France
  • 1986 - Victor Burgin, ICA, London
  • 1981 - Victor Burgin, Musee de la Ville de Calais, Calais
  • 1979 - Zoo, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
  • 1978 - Victor Burgin, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
  • 1977 - Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • 1976 - Lei Feng, Foksal Gallery, Poznan, Poland; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA ), London
  • 1972 - Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department Idea Idea / light
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