Oppenheim worked Land-art and body art, gained fame as the creator of striking monumental sculptures

According ARTINFO.com, in New York at the age of 72 years died a famous American artist Dennis Oppenheim (Dennis Oppenheim). Cause of death was liver cancer.

Oppenheim, who lived in New York since the mid 1960's, was one of the brightest representatives of such flows, as land art and body art. However, experiments in these areas is not limited to - the artist's work eclectic and multifaceted, and in recent years, for example, he created monumental sculptures for the streets and squares. "I'm not one of those artists who have so-called" firm acceptance "- he said in a recent interview.

At the beginning of his career, Oppenheim worked with the landscape. One of his most important works of 1960 consists of concentric circles in the snow, painted in such a way that through their center "is" the river that separates the U.S. and Canada. On another occasion, he drew on the snow plan for the gallery, creating "phantom space", disappeared in the sun. In 1970-74 the main "stuff" was the artist's own body. Among the famous performances of those years - "Pose for the reading adopted in order to obtain second-degree burn: Oppenheim five o'clock lying in the sun with an open book on his chest.

DENNIS Oppenheim A device for uprooting the evil. 1997. Source: artinfo.com

In 1981, the artist began to create so-called "cars" - smart devices, which, according to their author, can be regarded as metaphors unpredictability of the creative process. From the middle of that decade, Oppenheim studied mainly by "the transformation of everyday objects into works of art." In 1996 he performed for the Park of Europe in Vilnius, a sculpture of a chair, "seat" is - a small pool.

Late monumental works of the artist - it's part sculpture, part of the fantastic monuments. At the 1997 Venice Biennale, demonstrated his "Device for the uprooting of evil" in the shape of an inverted church. Work was considered too "provocative" for the parks in New York and Stanford, therefore, she went to Vancouver, where she lived until 2008 on.

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Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru