Overview
The opening of the new national stadium at Wembley in 2007 was the catalyst for a major new sound and video installation by the leading US artist Paul Pfeiffer commissioned by Artangel, the UK's leading public arts organisation. Celebrating the arguably most vital element in any football stadium - the crowd - The Saints is a lasting document of the evocative artwork of the same name, capturing the excitement and energy of the football crowd.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Pfeiffer
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Imprint: Kehrer Verlag
Dimensions:
Width: 24.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 1.118kg
ISBN: 9783868281026
ISBN 10: 3868281029
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 April 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: German
Author Information
Paul Pfeiffer: (born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966) is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA Printmaking) and Hunter College, New York (MFA), and has lived and worked in New York since 1990. He has had solo shows at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2001), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002), the Barbican Arts Centre, London (2003), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003), The Project, New York (2007), carlier gebauer, Berlin (2008), MUSAC, Leon, Spain (2008) and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009). He participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and was awarded the inaugural Bucksbaum Award. In 2001 he participated in the 49th Venice Biennale. He won the visual arts Alpert Award in 2009 (for the work of pioneering artists in the fields of visual arts, film/video, music, theater and dance). Udo Kittelmann: was former director of the MMK (Museum of Modern Art) in Frankfurt / Main and today is director of Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fu]r Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany. Britta Schmitz: is curator at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fu]r Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany. Ian White: is an artist and Adjunct Film Curator for the Whitechapel Gallery, London, as well as working on independent projects. He is the Facilitator of the LUX Associate Artists Programme and a writer. He curated 'Tense Present', a guided tour of artists' film and video in the Luxonline collection. Kodwo Eshun: (born 1967) is a British writer and theorist. He studied English Literature (BA Hons, MA Hons) at University College, Oxford University and Post Colonial Discourse Analysis MA Hons at Southampton University. He is currently course leader of the MA in Aural and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
