| 词条 | Athena Tacha |
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Athena Tacha ({{lang-el|Αθηνά Τάχα}}; born in Larissa,[1] Greece, 1936), is a multimedia visual artist. She is best known for her work in the fields of environmental public sculpture and conceptual art, and she also works with photography, film, and artists’ books. Tacha's work is interested in creating personal narratives, and often plays with geometry and form. Early life, education, and academic careerTacha was born in 1936 in Greece.[2] She received an M.A. in sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece; an M.A. in art history from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; and a Doctorate in aesthetics from the Sorbonne in Paris (1963). After her studies, she worked as the curator of modern art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College, organizing contemporary art exhibitions (including Art In The Mind, 1970). She has published two books and various articles on Auguste Rodin, Brâncuși, Nadelman and other 20th-century sculptors. She married art historian Richard E. Spear in 1965. From 1973 to 2000, she was a professor of sculpture at Oberlin College. Since 1998, she has been an affiliate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and lives in Washington, DC.[3][4] ArtworkOne of the first artists to develop environmental site-specific sculpture in the early 1970s, Tacha has won over fifty competitions for permanent public art commissions, of which nearly forty have been executed throughout the U.S., including an entire city-block park in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has had six one-artist shows in New York—at the Zabriskie Gallery, the Max Hutchinson Gallery, Franklin Furnace, the Foundation for Hellenic Studies, and the Kouros Gallery - and has exhibited in numerous group shows throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale. Concurrently, she produced a body of textual and photographic conceptual works, many of which were published as artist's books.[5] Athena Tacha's artist books are conceptual and often poetic studies that were printed between 1970 and 2005.[6]An interactive online display of the artist books and other printed materials can be found at Printed Matter, Inc.The pocket books series are small folded books, similar to a zine that were often sold in a plastic sleeve. In The Way My Mind Works, Tacha writes about her schizophrenic mind, her ruminating mind, her orderly mind.[7] Others in the pocket series examine everyday life. The larger artist books focus on geometry, space, and minimalism.[8] A Dictionary of Steps displays diagrams of steps. In addition, Tacha explored self portraiture, in works like Gestures and Expressions. ExhibitionsIn 1989, a retrospective of more than 100 of Tacha's sculptures, drawings and conceptual photographic pieces was held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It included large color photographs of her executed commissions and was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, Athena Tacha: Public Works, 1970-88 (introductory essay by John and Catherine Howett). The same year, she had an exhibition of new work, over 50 sculptures and drawings, as well as two large temporary installations, at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, also accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue (with an essay by Thalia Gouma-Peterson). Her most recent museum solo show, Small Wonders: New Sculpture and Photoworks at the American University's Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, 2006, had a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Anne Ellegood and Brenda Brown (reinstalled in New York at Kouros Gallery in 2007). Since Tacha moved to Washington, DC, she has had two solo exhibitions at the Marsha Mateyka Gallery (2004 and 2008). A 40-year retrospective (over 100 works), "Athena Tacha: From the Public to the Private," opened at the Contemporary Art Center (State Museum of Contemporary Art) in Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan. 16 - April 11, 2010. It presents for the first time all aspects of Tacha's art—from large outdoor commissions, to "body sculptures" and photoworks, to conceptual art and films—with a bilingual catalog (164 pp., 113 color illustrations). It is scheduled travel to Larissa and Athens through 2010. Tacha's sculptures and photo-works are in many American museums and private collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Agnes Gund Collection. Latest executed commissions (2001–09)
Books, catalogs, and articlesBooks on Tacha's work:
Main solo exhibition catalogs:
Several of Tacha's New York exhibitions have illustrated catalogues -- Massacre Memorials (Max Hutchinson, 1984), with an essay by Lucy Lippard; Vulnerability: New Fashions (Franklin Furnace, 1994), a conceptual art piece critiquing the fashion industry; and Athena Tacha: Shields and Universes (Foundation for Hellenic Culture, 2001). The most extensive articles on Tacha's art have appeared in Landscape Architecture (May 1978 & March 2007), Artforum (Jan. 1981), Arts Magazine (Oct. 1988), Art News (Sept. 1991) and Sculpture (June 1987, Nov. 2000 and October 2006). References1. ^Μιχαήλ Σταματελάτος, Φωτεινή Βάμβα-Σταματελάτου, Επίτομο Γεωγραφικό Λεξικό της Ελλάδος (Geographical Dictionary of Greece), εκδ. Ερμής, ΑΘήνα 2001 2. ^{{cite book |title=Originals: American women artists |author=Eleanor C. Munro|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmexC6OiYusC&pg=PA389&dq=%22Athena+Tacha%22+-inpublisher:icon&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22Athena%20Tacha%22%20-inpublisher%3Aicon&f=false |page=392 |ISBN=978-0-671-23109-5 |year=1979}} 3. ^{{cite news |work=Akron Beacon Journal |title=Hurrahs are Few for Environmental Artist: Athena Tacha Departs Oberlin for Washington With Ohio Send-Off that Fails to Equal Her Talent|date=December 27, 1998|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&s_site=ohio&p_multi=AK&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB6D751A50C483E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-access=subscription}} 4. ^{{cite web |title=Artist Athena Tacha Explores the Mysteries and Rhythms of Nature: Environmental sculpture, photographic works examine biological phenomena |url=http://www.america.gov/st/arts-english/2009/March/20090317172820GLnesnoM0.3690149.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328144815/http://www.america.gov/st/arts-english/2009/March/20090317172820GLnesnoM0.3690149.html?CP.rss=true |archivedate=2009-03-28 |publisher=U. S. State Department |date=17 March 2009 |first=Lauren |last=Monsen}} 5. ^Komini-Dialeti, D. (ed.), M. Papanicolaou, "Tacha Athena", Dictionary of Greek Artists (Λεξικο Ελληνων Καλλιτεχνων), vol. V, Athens, Greece, 2000. 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/tables/418|title=Athena Tacha, The Complete Bookworks 1970 to Present|last=|first=|date=6 November 2014|website=Printed Matters|access-date=13 March 2018}} 7. ^{{Cite book|title=The Way My Mind Works|last=Tacha|first=Athena|publisher=|year=1972-1973|isbn=|location=Oberlin, Ohio|pages=}} 8. ^{{Cite book|title=A Dictionary of Steps|last=Tacha|first=Athena|publisher=|year=1980|isbn=|location=|pages=}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.againc.com/fountAli.asp |title=Muhammad Ali Center - Star Fountain |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105171952/http://www.againc.com/fountAli.asp |archivedate=2009-01-05}} 10. ^1000 x Landscape Architecture, Editions Braun, Berlin, 2008, p. 259 {{ISBN|978-3-938780-60-2}} 11. ^{{cite book |title= Cosmic Rhythms: Athena Tacha's Public Sculpture, 1998 |author=Elizabeth McClelland |ISBN=1-893023-57-5}} 12. ^Editions Ariel, Washington, DC, 2000 {{ISBN|0-9679143-1-0}}. 13. ^{{cite book |ISBN= 0-939802-57-0|title=Athena Tacha: Public Works, 1970-1988}} 14. ^Athena Tacha: New Works, 1986-89 Library of Congress#89-062722. 15. ^{{cite book | OCLC=170886790|title=Athena Tacha: Small Wonders, 2006}} 16. ^{{cite book |ISBN= 978-960-89041-8-7|title=Athena Tacha: From Public to Private, 2010}} External links{{commons category|Athena Tacha}}
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