Bas Jan Ader, Untitled (Tea Party), 1972 ELEPHANT


Bas Jan Ader Publications Meliksetian Briggs

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. [1] His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969).


Tangential Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader, Broken fall (organic), Amsterdamse Bos, Holland, 1971/1994. Silver gelatin print, 18 x 25 inches. Copyright the Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2016 / The Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles and Simon Lee Gallery, London.


Bas Jan Ader Flower Arranging as the Master Art

Bas Jan Ader was born in 1942 in a remote area in the northeastern part of the Netherlands near the German border. His father was a minister in the Dutch Reform Church and both of his parents were.


Bas Jan Ader (Dutch, 19421975), Fall 2, Amsterdam, 1970 Funny

Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles (1965) and his Master's of Fine Arts at the Claremont Graduate School and University Center, Claremont CA (1967).


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bas Jan Ader was one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation, his work fusing European and Californian conceptual positions. Working in film, photography, installation and performance, his influence continues to be felt today.


Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee News

The performer and video artist Bas Jan Ader in this sense has reached the limits of creative despair, turning his whole life into an eccentric, but from this no less tragic artistic act. Born in 1942 in the Netherlands, the artist lived most of his life in sunny California, which was only a catalyst for his chronic sadness.


Bas Jan Ader Discovery File 143/76 ooga booga

Viewers of Bas Jan Ader's 24-second 16mm film actually do. Present, too, is the same sense of dawning horror, as we see the artist on a chair straddling the roof of a suburban home, then falling.


NO TODOS LOS GATOS SON PARDOS Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader was born to idealistic ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church on April 19, 1942. His father was executed by the Nazis for harboring Jewish refugees when Ader was only two years old.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Christopher Williams has hauntingly memorialized the artist in Bouquet for Bas Jan Ader and Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1991. Ader's rigorous poetics can be felt in Martin Kersel's excellent explorations of gravity, attraction, and repulsion. Artist Collier Schorr has written lucidly and lovingly about him.


Bas Jan Ader's Please Don't Leave Me & In Search of the Miraculous Bas

by Emmalea Russo Bas Jan Ader at Metro Pictures Gallery June 21 to August 5, 2016 519 West 24th Street (between 10th and 11th avenues) New York, 212 206 7100 Bas Jan Ader, Fall 2, Amsterdam (Book Set), 1970. Set of 10 black and white vintage prints, 3 1/2 x 5 inches.


"Fresh Hell" at Palais de Tokyo (Contemporary Art Daily)

In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance. Tiernan Morgan November.


Bas Jan Ader Quicksilver and Gone Border Crossings Magazine

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969).


Bas Jan Ader, Untitled (Tea Party), 1972 ELEPHANT

Bas Jan Ader, 1942 - 1975 Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before..


Bas Jan Ader Artists Metro Pictures

An inadequate boat, capsized off the coast of Ireland. A body lost at sea. For some, this life is not creeping, but rushing forward to its doomed conclusion. Most people turn away, unable to face.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea at age 33. His art still haunts By Leah Ollman July 5, 2019 10:56 AM PT Tragically truncated lives tend to be told in reverse, as narratives of inevitability,.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bas Jan Ader On Bas Jan Ader in Frieze | 06 JUN 94 Rapidly approaching cult status as a kind of Syd Barrett of contemporary art, Bas Jan Ader produced a modest oeuvre that has recently achieved a poignancy all the more relevant given the current concerns of a number of artists, particularly in Britain.

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