| 词条 | Anthony James (artist) |
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| name = Anthony James | image = Anthony James in Los Angeles 2015.jpg | caption=Anthony James in his Los Angeles studio | alt = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1974 | birth_place = England | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British/American | other_names = | occupation = British/American artist | years_active = | known_for = Sculpture, painting, and installations | notable_works = }}Anthony James is a British/American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his monumental and performative sculptures and installations. His work gestures towards minimalism, materiality, process, alchemy, language, mechanization, and experimentation with light and space.[1] Michael Slenske interviewed James about his art. Slenske said “Though he claims a lot of his art is about esoteric concerns, death and rebirth, and a certain spiritual energy, he also argues, ‘A lot of the art is in the correction of a mistake or maybe it is the mistake. I’m very open to what comes to me. I feel like certain things are serendipitous.’”[2] Anthony James is co-founder of There-there Gallery with Lauri Firstenberg. There-there’s mission as a new production company is to “produce exhibitions, films, and editions in order to promote ongoing collaborations with local and international artists.” There-there opened in Hollywood in 2017. In an interview with Artnews, James said, “I view this partnership as a way for me to extend my practice, utilizing our new space to present dynamic programs. From both of our perspectives, artists supporting other artists can be a generative and powerful gesture.” Early life and educationAnthony James was born in England in 1974. He studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he moved to New York City and ten years later to Los Angeles. He did a brief stint in Munich for two years starting in 2013 and then moved back to Los Angeles.[3] ArtBirch Series, 2005Birch Series is a series of sculptures James debuted in New York City in 2005. They consist of several variously sized, vertical light boxes with young birch tree trunks inside.[4] The birch tree is associated with magical symbolism: Glenn O’Brien wrote about birch trees that there “magic...is rooted in [the] special relationship with fly agaric mushrooms - that famed toadstool of the red cap and white spots - which is so often associated with elves and spirits...Many anthropologists consider it to be a possible agent of the transformation of human consciousness.”[5] The birch tree is also “associated with birth and rebirth” and is “hermaphroditic and self-propagating, with male and female flowers on the same tree.”[6] Birch was also traditionally used to discipline students in schools.[7] The works have mirrored sides, which give the illusion of endless birch forests.[8] The pieces are made out of Minnesotan birch trees, aluminum, glass, and fluorescent lights or LEDs.[9] Birch Series also references the containment and simulation of nature. Kalos Thanatos, 2008James gained international recognition in 2008 for his work Kalos Thanatos (KO), Greek for “beautiful death”, when he burned his Ferrari F335 Spyder in a birch forest, and then displayed it in a mirrored glass box with birch tree trunks.[10] James was inspired by the ancient Greeks, who burned sacrifices to Aphrodite in birch forests.[11] O’Brien lauded James’ Kalos Thanatos by describing it as daring: “I miss art going out on a limb...Just a slim limb that looks like there’s at least some chance of it snapping...Anthony James burned his Ferrari and put it in a box, amid, actually, a bunch of limbs. That was going for it….this work is pretty gutsy...The car was a victim, a sacrifice old-school redux.”[12] Morphic Fields, 2014Morphic Fields is an exhibition of bronze and limestone pieces inspired by the scientist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance: “a process whereby self-organizing systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems.”[13] Sheldrake describes his theory relative to the artistic process: “Every morphic fields starts with some creative step. Newton was the first person to think of the law of gravity. And before he’d thought of it, no one else had. Since then, millions of people have been able to think of it. So all morphic fields begin with individuals…Very few contemporary artists have the sense of inspiration from a transcendent source beyond the human realm. But I would argue that they are also drawing from the collective human experience. As much as there is room for individual creativity, every artist is also transcending collective memory. Artists can create new morphic fields. Yet, all art exists within a morphic field beyond the individual.”[14] The sculptures are created from found materials and “through [James’] process of converting...waste into bronze they morph into something very beautiful and precious.”[15] Shields, 2016Shields was an exhibition of curved disks made of brass, bronze, and steel with “scarred with minimalist markings.”[16] This series “operates elusively, staggering between the iconic and the arbitrary, the concrete and the alchemic, the mythical and experiential.”[17] James describes his work as, “evoking pictorial depictions of the cosmos, alluding to notions of mysticism, ethereality, and science fiction, all the while anchored through the use of weighty, industrial materials such as metal."[18] The shields “read as relics or artifacts from some liminal moment, as such, James attempts to locate beauty in the wake of insanity.”[19] Portals/Icosahedrons, 2011-presentThe Portals/Icosahedrons are made from titanium, LED lights, and transparent mirrors.[20][21] Art historian Rachel Baum wrote about the show that “Anthony James’ work takes up the concepts of the universal and transcendental in order to demonstrate the impossibility of their representation. The historical cosmology of Plato is a primary inspiration, both for the sculptures of icosahedrons and for the silhouette of Baroque architecture Francesco Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo in Rome. Neons, 2010-presentColorful rings of neon nod to the ancient concept of the universe as set of concentric planetary orbits. The effect is both esoteric and industrial, morphic and distinctly concrete.”[22] The works have a “spectra of colored neon tubes arranged in concentric circles to evoke the radiance of sacred enlightenment. The hue and intensity of the colors are designed to create white light. The historical references here span empirical experimentation with prisms to the image, across cultures, of the universe-wheel. Neon is already in our time a somewhat outworn material and the visible wires and plugs that trail from the vibrant rings interrupt any illusions of transcendence. This is the paradox that James’ objects show, a formal certainty and perspicuity (exact symmetry, white light, accurate shape) that registers a loss of purity or autonomy or wholeness. His works illustrate ideals, but they themselves are very contingent and actual, particular, not universal: they are for today.”[23] ExhibitionsSolo Exhibitions[24]
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PublicationsMorphic FieldsMorphic Fields is a book of James’ art from his Kalo Thanatos and Morphic Fields exhibitions. James created the publication along with contributions from Katja Eichinger, Christian Kracht, Matthias Muhling, Glenn O’Brien, and Rupert Sheldrake. It was printed in Germany, so every page is written in English and then translated into German, and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. References1. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 2. ^Michael Slenske, 2017, “Spiritual Gangster”, Cultured Magazine, pp. 194-199. 3. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 4. ^Designboom.com, https://www.designboom.com/art/anthony-james-birch-at-design-miami-basel-2010/, Andrea Chin, “Anthony James ‘Birch’ at Design Miam Basel 2010”, 2010. 5. ^Designboom.com, https://www.designboom.com/art/anthony-james-birch-at-design-miami-basel-2010/, Andrea Chin, “Anthony James ‘Birch’ at Design Miam Basel 2010”, 2010. 6. ^Glenn O’Brien, “Casual Magic: The Art of Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 58-71. 7. ^Glenn O’Brien, “Casual Magic: The Art of Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 58-71. 8. ^Glenn O’Brien, “Casual Magic: The Art of Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 58-71. 9. ^Designboom.com, https://www.designboom.com/art/anthony-james-birch-at-design-miami-basel-2010/, Andrea Chin, “Anthony James ‘Birch’ at Design Miami Basel 2010”, 2010. 10. ^Michael Slenske, 2017, “Spiritual Gangster”, Cultured Magazine, pp. 194-199. 11. ^Michael Slenske, 2017, “Spiritual Gangster”, Cultured Magazine, pp. 194-199. 12. ^Glenn O’Brien, “Casual Magic: The Art of Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 58-71 13. ^Glenn O’Brien, “Casual Magic: The Art of Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 58-71. 14. ^Katja Eichinger, “An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 52-57. 15. ^Matthias Muhling, “An Interview with Anthony James”, Morphic Fields, Munich: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, pp. 77-89. 16. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 17. ^ Fort Gansevoort, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ee2fc1e4b0c1020ff7e01a/t/591f29c103596e77e94503c7/1495214536115/FG_AnthonyJames_PressRelease_FINAL.pdf, “Anthony James/Fabulism”, 2017. 18. ^ Fort Gansevoort, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ee2fc1e4b0c1020ff7e01a/t/591f29c103596e77e94503c7/1495214536115/FG_AnthonyJames_PressRelease_FINAL.pdf, “Anthony James/Fabulism”, 2017. 19. ^Fort Gansevoort, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ee2fc1e4b0c1020ff7e01a/t/591f29c103596e77e94503c7/1495214536115/FG_AnthonyJames_PressRelease_FINAL.pdf, “Anthony James/Fabulism”, 2017. 20. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 21. ^https://craftcouncil.org/post/five-highlights-sofa-2018 22. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 23. ^There-there.co, https://there-there.co/therethere-anthony-james/, 2017. 24. ^http://melissamorganfineart.com/anthony-james/#ffs-tabbed-13 25. ^http://melissamorganfineart.com/anthony-james/#ffs-tabbed-13 External links
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