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Copyright the artist | | | Bickerton, Ashley (1959 - ) USA
Landscape #3 (Desert Biosphere), 1988
Anodised aluminium, lacquer wood, safety glass, sand, wire, metal, pulleys, fans and vinyl cloth.; 245.1 x 153.7 x 113 cm Neo-Geo
UID 102-56
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Biography
American artist born in Barbados. Lives in Bali, Indonesia. First one-man show in New York in 1986. In opposition to the figurative and expressionist movements of the beginning of the 80's, a group appeared in New York calling themselves Neo-Geo or Simulationists. The symbols of the industrial age provide the main focus of his objects and images, as do the urban semiotics of brand signs and labels and signs standing for triviality, kitsch and sexual clichés, In the early 80's he made pictures composed of large ornamental letters. By the end of the nineties, he was painting self-portraits in the form of large nudes - caricatured, distorted sexual stereotypes that show the artist as hell's angel, body-building champion, Californian surfer or New York whore. He also built a series of black containers called "Anthropospheres" These boxes are designed as survival capsules. They appear to be intended to conserve for posterity highly important data for the preservation of mankind.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Colecção Berardo em Faro (ARCO) Galeria ARCO, Portugal 01-01-1999 ~ 31-01-1999
Colecção Berardo em Faro (TREM) Galeria TREM, Portugal 01-01-1999 ~ 31-01-1999
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Novas Salas Pop, Fluxus, Foto-Realismo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 09-06-1997 ~ 28-02-1998
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Colecção Berardo em Faro, 1999 Published by Galeria ARCO - Galeria TREM
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sotheby´s, Contemporary Art: Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Multiples, New York, Tuesday, October 5, 1993, lot. 246, 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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