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Overview of the events of 1997 in art
Overview of the events of 1997 in art
Events from the year 1997 in art .
Events
Full date unknown
Exhibitions
Awards
-The
Venice Biennial -
Artworks
Matthew Barney - The
Erich Weiss Suite
[9]
Louise Bourgeois –
Eye Benches I, II and III (Seattle)
Maurizio Cattelan – Turisti (installation, first version)
Thornton Dial -
The Bridge dedicated to Congressman
John Lewis at John Lewis Plaza in
Freedom Park in
Atlanta, Georgia
[10]
Lucian Freud – Eight Months Gone
Zenos Frudakis –
Statue of Ellis Arnall (Atlanta)
Antony Gormley –
Another Place (sculpture)
Rodney Graham – Vexation Island (film loop)
Philip Jackson
Larry Kirkland –
Garden Wreath (installation, Portland, Oregon)
Gabriel Koren -
El-Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X placed at the
Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, New York City
[11]
Sarah Lucas – Bunny Gets Snookered (installation, including
Pauline Bunny )
Ron Mueck – Dead Dad , Angel , Big Baby II and III , Man in a Sheet and Mask (Self Portrait) (sculptures)
[12]
Odd Nerdrum
Cornelia Parker
Mass (Colder Darker Matter) (installation)
The Negative of Whispers (sculpture of found material)
Pornographic Drawings
Martin Puryear –
Bearing Witness (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
Richard Serra - Snake (completed)
[13]
Gillian Wearing – 10–16 (video)
Films
Deaths
January to June
January 23 –
Jeremy Maas , English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (b.
1928 ).
January 25 –
Dan Barry , American cartoonist (b.
1923 )
February 2 –
Theodoros Stamos , Greek American
abstract expressionist painter (b.
1922 ).
March 7 –
Martin Kippenberger , German artist (b.
1953 ).
March 11 –
Sam Golden , paint maker (b.
1915 ).
March 15 –
Victor Vasarely , Hungarian-French artist (b.
1906 ).
March 19 –
Willem de Kooning ,
Dutch born American
abstract expressionist painter (b.
1904 ).
April 16 –
Roland Topor , French
illustrator ,
painter , writer and
filmmaker (b.
1938 ).
April 20 –
Jean Louis , French costume designer (b.
1907 ).
April 22 –
Reg Gammon ,
English painter and illustrator (b.
1894 )
May 23 –
James Lee Byars , American artist (b.
1932 ).
July to December
July 15 –
Gianni Versace , Italian
fashion designer , murdered (b.
1946 ).
July 16 –
Dora Maar , French
photographer , poet and
painter , lover of
Pablo Picasso (b.
1907 ).
August 4 –
Tom Eckersley , English poster artist (b.
1914 )
September 6 –
Jean-Pierre Sudre , French photographer (b.
1921 )
September 29 –
Roy Lichtenstein , American
pop artist (b.
1923 ).
October 22 –
Leonid Amalrik , Russian
animator and
animation director (b.
1905 ).
October 23 –
Claire Falkenstein , American sculptor and painter (b.
1908 ).
November 26 -
Philip Berman , art collector, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at
Ursinus College in
Collegeville, Pennsylvania (b.
1915
December 16 –
Lillian Disney , American artist and wife of
Walt Disney (b.
1899 ).
Full date unknown
References