German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann dies age 82
H
ans-Peter Feldmann, who has been described as a “pioneer of artistic appropriation”, has died on the age of 82, his representatives have confirmed.
The German conceptual artist, whose physique of labor encompassed banal and missed objects together with sneakers, seascapes and strawberries, died on May 30.
A joint assertion from eight galleries, together with Simon Lee Gallery and Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, mentioned: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Hans-Peter Feldmann.
“With him we have lost an amazing and extraordinary artist.
“His unique personality and his artistic understanding of the world we are living in will stay alive in the art he has left behind.
“Our hearts and thoughts are with his beloved wife Uschi, with whom he shared art and life for many years. Hans-Peter – we all are missing you a lot.”
During his profession, Feldmann was extensively recognised as “a pioneer of artistic appropriation” for his work amassing and re-presenting objects capturing the mundanity of on a regular basis life and repurposing into effective artwork.
In 2008, he crammed the 303 Gallery with 151 worldwide newspapers from the day after September 11, 2001 terrorist assaults, which he titled 9/12 Front Page.
When he gained the Guggenheim Museum’s 100,000 greenback Hugo Boss Prize in 2010 on the age of 70, he pinned the prize cash in a single greenback payments to the establishment’s partitions.
In describing his improvement as an artist, Feldmann mentioned he had turned to artwork as a solution to survive “the boredom and survival mentality of post-war Germany.”
Feldmann was additionally a producer of inventive books, together with his publications instrumental in establishing the style as a type of inventive follow.
He leaves behind his spouse Uschi.