Stanley Brouwn
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Stanley Edmund Brouwn (25 June 1935 - 18 May 2017) was a South American-born Dutch conceptual artist. His works explored dematerialization. As an anonymous artist, he exemplified 1960s conceptualism.[1] His best-known works include “This Way Brouwn”, “Afghanistan-Zambia” and “BROUWNTOYS 4000AD”.
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In 1957 Brouwn relocated to Amsterdam at the age of 22. His career as an artist flourished after he was introduced to the Zero movement by Armando. The Zero movement, a group of artists who rejected the role of authorship upon their works, is largely responsible for the anonymity Brouwn demonstrated throughout his career. In the early 1960s, Brouwn produced his first works. These consisted of iron and wooden sculpture. He also used suspended polythene bags filled with garbage. Few of these early works have survived, as Brouwn destroyed most of them.
Eventually, Brouwn began to consider the role of the audience in the development of artwork. One of his early works involved the dispersion of paper sheets across Amsterdam streets. The art that appeared upon the sheets resulted from the footprints of pedestrians and tire prints from cyclists. Brouwn's early works were later destroyed.[2] The remainder of Brouwn's works earned him placement in various prestigious exhibitions such as Documentas 5, 6, 7 and 11, and the 1982 Venice Biennale. In 2005, a retrospective collection of Brouwn's works was exhibited in the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His practice and works have influenced various critics, artists and contemporary aesthetics.
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PAAR- eine Hommage an Stanley Brouwn
Performance von Pascal Lampert; Winterthur 8. & 9. Oktober 2015 anlässlich des Performance Festivals PerformNow...
Reading stanley brouwn
Reading stanley brouwn (2015-2016) By Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec The work "Reading stanley brouwn" addresses...
Videoantwort 01 zu Stanley Brouwn, documenta...
Stanley Brouwn, documenta 11
