David Lamelas
David Lamelas (* 1946, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a contemporary Argentinian artist, at present living between the cities of Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris.
During the 1960s, he was one of the key members of the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, and he was one of the first conceptual artists of the period.
In 1968 he exhibited in London on a scholarship from the British Council, where he began to make short films and exhibition films. From then on, he continues to work splitting his time between Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
In 1967, he received the top prize at the 9th São Paulo Biennial for his installation there. He also participated in the 34th Venice Biennial in 1968, and Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972.
In 1992, he received the Diploma al Mérito de los Premios Konex for Conceptual Art and in 2012, the same award for Video Art.
In 1993, he received the Guggenheim Fellowship[1] and in 1998, the DAAD Stipendium from Germany.
There was a retrospective of his work at the Witte de With of Róterdam and at the Kunstverein in Munich in 1997, where the book David Lamelas: To New Refutation of Time was published.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
- 1975 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 1997 Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
- 2005 Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico City
- 2006 Vienna Secession, Vienna
- 2008 Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel
References
External links
- Review of his show at Sala Recalde in Bilbao, Spain
- Article in the newspaper Él País
- Article in English