Dennis Adams

For the South African boxer of the 1950s and '60s, see Dennis Adams (boxer).
Dennis Adams

Dennis Adams, Malraux's Shoes, 2012
Born Dennis Adams
1948
Iowa,
United States
Nationality American
Known for Photography, Public Sculpture, Installation, Film

Dennis Adams (b. 1948 Des Moines, Iowa) is an American artist internationally recognized for his urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture.

About

Dennis Adams emerged by the 1980’s through his urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents of our collective memory both in the United States and Europe, best documented in the monograph entitled Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia (1989). Beginning in 1999, Adams began to explore the medium of video and social engagement with projects such as OUTTAKE (1999), Makedown (2004), Spill (2009) and most recently Malraux’s Shoes (2012).[1]

Work

From the metamorphosis of Patricia Hearst to the SLA, and back again, to the trial of Klaus Barbie, from the omissions and distortions of Joseph McCarthy to the execution of the Rosenbergs, Adams has singled out controversial figures and events from our not-too-distant past that, if buried underneath layers of silence, still carry an explosive charge. Over the past four decades, Adams has produced site-specific works, often in highly visible locations such as bus shelters, and urban public settings that focus on the phenomenon of collective amnesia in the late twentieth century. A survey of ten years of site-specific interventions was published in a monograph entitled Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia (1989) written by Maryanne Staniszewski. The publication was followed by two mid-career surveys organized by the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston.

Beginning in 1998, Adams began to explore the possibilities of video with a project entitled OUTTAKE shown in Bremen, Berlin and with Kent in New York. Adams presented a 17:23 second segment (416 film stills) of the un-telecast German documentary on delinquent girls in state orphanages entitled Bambule directed by Ulrike Meinhof in 1969. These photographic stills were re-recorded as they were distributed in the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin, as "handbills," or "flyers," associated with political propaganda and advertising.

Following the events of September 11 near his Tribeca studio, Adams created a poetic series of fourteen Ektachrome photographs portraying the detritus filled sky over lower Manhattan. The series was entitled AIRBORNE which after being shown in New York in 2002 was subsequently featured in the Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal) 2003 and PhotoEspana (Madrid) 2004.

In a recent project, MAKE DOWN (2005) Adams addresses the complexity of layers of representation contained in one cinematic fragment from The Battle of Algiers, particularly in the context of the ongoing transformations of the historical conflict between Islamic and Western cultures. Instead of presuming to unravel these meanings, Adams chooses instead to locate himself between the frames of the image in a re-enactment of the process of disguise.

Adams has been a faculty member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including: Parsons School of Design, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He currently lectures at Cooper Union, New York.

He is represented by Kent Fine Art [2] in New York City, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris, and Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz in Pamplona

Artist books

Selected exhibitions

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/dennis-adams
  2. ↑ http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/dennis-adams Kent Fine Art
  3. ↑ Adams, Dennis, and Mary A. Staniszewski. The Architecture of Amnesia. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 1990.
  4. ↑ Adams, Dennis. Dennis Adams: Double Feature. New York, N.Y: Kent Fine Art, 2008.
  5. ↑ http://cooper.edu/art/faculty/dennis-adams/
  6. ↑ http://www.kentfineart.net/artists/images_adams_1/details_0408_05.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archives/6878/releases/MOMA_1991_0007_7.pdf?2010
  8. ↑ https://books.google.com/books/about/Post_human.html?id=bKFPAAAAMAAJ
  9. ↑ http://web.me.com/markusbaumgartner/Studios/Freeload.html
  10. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E5D81E31F935A2575AC0A9639C8B63
  11. ↑ http://pillanatgepek.c3.hu/en/
  12. ↑ http://www.bordeaux.fr/ebx/ShowBinary/BEA%20Repository/flip/fr/groupePiecesJointes/1486/39/pieceJointeSpec/71120/file/evento_dp_sept09_UK.pdf
  13. ↑ http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/algiers/algiers_brochure.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/406
  15. ↑ http://www.museointernacionaldechile.cl/blog/2010/04/18/la-memoria-del-otro/
  16. ↑ http://www.co-berlin.info/program/exhibitions/2011/the-uncanny-familiar--images-of-terror.html
  17. ↑ Dennis Adams: Malraux's Shoes at Kent Fine Art
  18. ↑ http://www.kentfineart.net/publications

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