Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Artist of the Day, November 20, 2024: Kader Attia, a French sculptor, installation artist (#2162)

 Kader Attia (1970) is a French sculptor, installation artist. He grew up in Paris and in Algeria. Preceding his studies at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and at Escola Massana, Centre d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America.

The experience with these different cultures, the histories of which over centuries have been characterised by rich trading traditions, colonialism and multi-ethnic societies, has fostered Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach of research. For many years, he has been exploring the perspective that societies have on their history, especially as regards experiences of deprivation and suppression, violence and loss, and how this affects the evolving of nations and individuals — each of them being connected to collective memory.

His socio-cultural research has led Kader Attia to the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. With the principle of Repair being a constant in nature — thus also in humanity —, any system, social institution or cultural tradition can be considered as an infinite process of Repair, which is closely linked to loss and wounds, to recuperation and re-appropriation. Repair reaches far beyond the subject and connects the individual to gender, philosophy, science, and architecture, and also involves it in evolutionary processes in nature, culture, myth and history.

In 2016, Kader Attia founded La Colonie, a space in Paris to share ideas and to provide an agora for vivid discussion. Focussing on decolonialisation not only of peoples but also of knowledge, attitudes and practices, it aspires to de-compartmentalise knowledge by a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational approach. Driven by the urgency of social and cultural reparations, it aims to reunite which has been shattered, or drift apart.

In 2016, Kader Attia was awarded with the Marcel Duchamp Prize, followed by the Prize of the Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the Yanghyun Art Prize, Seoul, in 2017.

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Kader Attia
Childhood, 2005 
Childhood, 2005 

Holy Land, 2006
Holy Land, 2006
Untitled (Skyline), 2007
Ghost, 2007 Austria
Untitled (Concrete Pillars), 2007
Demo(n)cracy, 2009
Tawaaf, 2009
Untitled (Ghardaia), 2009
Satellite Dishes, 2009  photo
Tawaaf, 2009
Measure and Control, 2013 
Measure and Control, 2013 
Measure and Control, 2013 
Mirrors and Masks, 2013
Mirrors and Masks, 2013
 Continuum of Repair, 2013-14
The Light of Jacobs Ladder, 2013-14 
Untitled, 2014 
Asesinos ! Asesinos !, 2014 
Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014
Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014
Untitled, 2016
When Cardboard repairs Plastic # 3, 2016
Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton, 2018
On n’emprisonne pas les idées, 2018 
Untitled, 2018
Schizophrenic Melancholia, 2018
Some Modernity’s Footprints, 2018
On Silence, 2021

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Artist of the Day, November 19, 2024: Marian Stachurski, a Polish Graphic artist, poster designer (#2161)

 Marian Stachurski (1931-1980) was a Polish postwar & contemporary artist. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Henryk Tomaszewski, an influential illustrator who taught many of the most successful poster designers in Poland.

Stachurski created film posters from the late-1950s through the mid-70s, for both domestic and international films.

Marian Stachurski's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Since 2014 the record price for this artist at auction is 901 USD for A poster for the movie "Bullitt, sold at Desa Unicum in 2024.

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Marian Stachurski
Poster for the movie "The Search", 1948

Poster for the movie "Das doppelte Lottchen", 1950
Poster for the movie "Flip i Flap na bezludnej wyspie", 1950
Poster for the movie "W samo poludnie", 1957
Poster for the movie "Ewa chce spac", 1958
Poster for the movie "Dwoje z wielkiej rzeki", 1958
Poster for the movie "Konski pysk, 1959
Poster for the movie "Zobaczymy Sie w niedziele," 1959
Poster for the movie "Okrucienstwo", 1959
Poster for the movie "The Quartermass Experiment", 1959
Poster for the movie "Decyzja", 1960
Poster for the movie "Podroz Balonem" (Le voyage en ballon) Albert Lamorisse, 1960
Poster for the movie "Sczesliwa Droga" Gene Kelly, [The happy road] 1960
Poster for the movie "The Guns of Navarone, 1961
Poster for the movie "West Side Story", 1961
Poster for the movie "Hindukusz", 1962
Poster for the movie "A Patch of Blue", 1965
Mixed Media Bird Motif, 1966
Poster for the movie "Czterej pancerni i pies", 1967
Poster for the movie "Jovita", 1967
Poster for the movie "Sciana Czarownic" [The wall of the witches], 1967
Poster for the movie "Bullitt", 1968
Poster for the movie "Wolves' Echoes", 1968
Poster for the movie "Latitude Zero", 1969
Poster for the movie "Szkice warszawskie", 1969
Clown at the Cyrk, 1970 poster
Poster for the movie "Zamek - pułapka", 1970
Poster for the movie "Sudba rezidenta", 1971
Poster for the movie "Wielkie wakacje", 1971
Poster for the movie "W upalną noc", 1976
Poster for the movie "Jakub i Ezaw", 1980