Bas Jan Ader, Untitled (Tea Party), 1972 ELEPHANT


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Bas Jan Ader was born in 1942 in a remote area in the northeastern part of the Netherlands near the German border. His father was a minister in the Dutch Reform Church and both of his parents were.


Bas Jan Ader's Please Don't Leave Me & In Search of the Miraculous Bas

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. [1] His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969).


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Bas Jan Ader's may well have been, too. Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of.


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Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader's work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg.Dumbadze looks closely at Ader's engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by.


Catalogue Bas Jan Ader Pitzer College Art Galleries

Bas Jan Ader was one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation, his work fusing European and Californian conceptual positions. Working in film, photography, installation and performance, his influence continues to be felt today.


Bas Jan Ader Flower Arranging as the Master Art

by Emmalea Russo Bas Jan Ader at Metro Pictures Gallery June 21 to August 5, 2016 519 West 24th Street (between 10th and 11th avenues) New York, 212 206 7100 Bas Jan Ader, Fall 2, Amsterdam (Book Set), 1970. Set of 10 black and white vintage prints, 3 1/2 x 5 inches.


Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous, July 1975 Newlyn Art

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969).


Bas Jan Ader Artists Metro Pictures

Bas Jan Ader, 1942 - 1975 Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before..


Bas Jan Ader Quicksilver and Gone Border Crossings Magazine

In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance. Tiernan Morgan November.


Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee News

An inadequate boat, capsized off the coast of Ireland. A body lost at sea. For some, this life is not creeping, but rushing forward to its doomed conclusion. Most people turn away, unable to face.


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Bas Jan Ader was born to idealistic ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church on April 19, 1942. His father was executed by the Nazis for harboring Jewish refugees when Ader was only two years old.


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Viewers of Bas Jan Ader's 24-second 16mm film actually do. Present, too, is the same sense of dawning horror, as we see the artist on a chair straddling the roof of a suburban home, then falling.


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Christopher Williams has hauntingly memorialized the artist in Bouquet for Bas Jan Ader and Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1991. Ader's rigorous poetics can be felt in Martin Kersel's excellent explorations of gravity, attraction, and repulsion. Artist Collier Schorr has written lucidly and lovingly about him.


Bas Jan Ader, Untitled (Tea Party), 1972 ELEPHANT

The performer and video artist Bas Jan Ader in this sense has reached the limits of creative despair, turning his whole life into an eccentric, but from this no less tragic artistic act. Born in 1942 in the Netherlands, the artist lived most of his life in sunny California, which was only a catalyst for his chronic sadness.


"Fresh Hell" at Palais de Tokyo (Contemporary Art Daily)

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (born 19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He had lived in Los Angeles, California for the last twelve years of his life. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances.


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Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea at age 33. His art still haunts By Leah Ollman July 5, 2019 10:56 AM PT Tragically truncated lives tend to be told in reverse, as narratives of inevitability,.