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Alexander Archipenko was born in Russia in 1887. He left Russia in 1908 and moved to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with avant-garde artists like Picasso, Braque and Modigliani....
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Biography of Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Archipenko was born in Russia in 1887. He left Russia in 1908 and moved to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with avant-garde artists like Picasso, Braque and Modigliani. After his first exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne and with the Indépendants, he founded his own art school at the age of 24. As a sculptor, his creativity was unceasing. He was also a determined art educator. Archipenko is part of the history of art and is often called the "Picasso of sculpture". Thhe artist played a crucial role in the introduction of Cubism into the field of sculpture. As early as 1910, he produced forms of expression, still figurative, but with a tendency towards abstraction. After 1910, Archipenko's forms, always strong and with broken contours, will be clearly influenced by Cubism. Later, Italian Futurism inspired him to create kinetic compositions with organic or technical forms. At the same time Archipenko developed his "sculpture-painting" (reliefs in wood, cardboard, metal and glass). Archipenko moved to the United States in 1923. After focusing on the decorative effects of sculpture in the 1930s, he turned to an approach of the immaterial in the mid-1940s; he began his research on "modeling light" and created sculptures in plastic lit from within. Alexander Archipenko died in New York in 1964.
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Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Archipenko : The sculpture and graphic art with print catalogue raisonne », D. H. Karshan, Ed. Wasmuth, Tübingen, Allemagne, 1974 * « Werkverzeichnis / Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre », 2 Vol., P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1997 All the "catalogues raisonnés"Bibliographic track & more
To read from or about the artist :
* « Archipenko, A Memorial Exhibition 1967–1969 », UCLA Art Galleries. 1967* « Archipenko, International Visionary », Karshan, Donald H., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969
* « Alexander Archipenko A Centennial Tribute », N. Guralnik et autres, National Gallery of Art, The Tel Aviv Museum, 1986
* « Alexander Archipenko: Retrospektive », Ralph Melcher, Hirmer Verlag, 2008
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A tribute to Alexander Archipenko
Peu de temps après avoir réalisé sa dernière sculpture en bronze (« Le roi Salomon »), le sculpteur cubiste américain d'origine ukrainienne Alexander Archipenko meurt le 25 février 1964 à New York. Il repose au Woodlawn Cemetery de New York. Il avait 77 ans. En son hommage, cet oeillet.
"Je n'ai jamais appartenu à des écoles : j'ai été renvoyé des écoles. J'ai fait des recherches, j'ai inventé et expérimenté, ensuite on m' a imité . . ." - Alexander Archipenko
"Pour chaque artiste, l'art est un courant créateur ascendant vers la découverte individuelle de la vérité dans les formes de la nature et les périodes ne constituent que des cases dans l'esprit des critiques." - Alexander Archipenko
"La figure majeure parmi les nouveaux venus à Paris au début du XXème siècle fut sans contexte le sculpteur Alexander Archipenko." - Valentine Marcadé
"L'art sculpturale d'Archipenko éblouit toujours avec des nouveautés saisissantes et son sentiment de l'élégance des imageries gothiques." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"Archipenko a contesté la compréhension traditionnelle de la sculpture. / …. / Son processus créatif n'impliquait pas la sculpture ou la modélisation dans la tradition admise, mais le clouage, le collage et l'attachement, sans tenter de cacher les ongles, les jonctions ou les coutures. Son processus est parallèle à l'expérience visuelle de la peinture cubiste." - Juan Gris
"Le premier usage conscient des concaves dans la sculpture est dû à Archipenko. Sa tentative conduit l'observateur, par son évidente déviation du traitement naturaliste habituel, à une réalisation des possibilités élémentaires de la positive relations négatives." - Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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Art movements
- + MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
- + CUBISM / 1907-1925 / Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Dufresne, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Metzinger, etc.
- + OPTICAL ART / 1955-1968 / Nicolas Schöffer (cybernetic art), Larry Poons, Bridget Riley, etc.
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