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  UNI Gallery of Art : DENNIS OPPENHEIM
The exhibit, "Dennis Oppenheim: 20 Years in the Public Eye," will be on view exclusively at UNI from Sept. 21 through Oct. 22.
Oppenheim was an early innovator in conceptual art, as well as one of the pioneers in earth art during the late ’60s and early ’70s.
"Dennis Oppenheim: Twenty Years in the Public Eye," at the UNI Gallery of Art is free and open to the public.
www.uni.edu /artdept/gallery/oppenheim/oppnews.html   (943 words)

  
 Europos Parkas. Dennis Oppenheim
The famous conceptualist Dennis Oppenheim (born 1938,) is one of the most outstanding figures of contemporary art.
Oppenheim has been a pioneering artist in conceptualism, land art, body art, video, and sculpture since the late 1960s.
At the beginning of his career, Dennis Oppenheim joined the Land Art Movement, and together with Walter De Maria and Robert Smithson, sought for inspiration in fields and vast spaces far from city noise.
www.europosparkas.lt /Artists/Oppenheim-en.html   (310 words)

  
 ART IN REVIEW; Dennis Oppenheim - New York Times
Oppenheim's succeeds if it makes you laugh or gets under your skin; otherwise it's forgettable because the visual payback is so limited.
Oppenheim has had to rely on aesthetic indifference as a kind of political strategy, an anti-art pose, tough to sustain over decades.
Oppenheim's ultimate legacy is to have turned futility into a medium, a potent emotional subject and a singular plan, sometimes effective, but often not much to look at.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E2DA163BF93AA15751C1A9669C8B63   (512 words)

  
 Grand Arts: Dennis Oppenheim
Oppenheim has also incorporated his family in his art, filming his children’s gestures and finding meaning in potato sack races and making faces.
Oppenheim has envisioned a raised platform with flights of steps at either end and gasoline burners to keep the coals hot.
Oppenheim planned for viewers to actually enter the quasi-architectural structure, forcing an empathy with the unwitting victims of the Holocaust.
www.grandarts.com /exhibits/DOppen.html   (1245 words)

  
 www.likeyou.com - Dennis Oppenheim - Recall - MOT, GB-London
A video, tightly focused on Oppenheim's lips, shows the artist talking about his art school years, how he changed his practice, and how he specifically moved away from painting as he came to see it as a redundant medium.
Oppenheim inhales the turpentine and "...like a drug, it induce(s) an alteration of consciousness; as my senses are filled with this smell my memory slowly uncovers images of a past region in which the smell prevailed, as I verbalise in a kind of rambling stream of consciousness monologue.
There is a timeless sense of the contemporary in Oppenheim's monologue, these stories are not dissimilar from the ones all ex-art students have recalled at some point - tales of being misunderstood, misdirected and then, ultimately, of refuting the entire art school system in some way.
www.likeyou.com /archives/dennis_oppenheim_mot_06.htm   (631 words)

  
 Conjectural Imaging: Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim's position as a major artist of the 1970s rests primarily on his ability to extend the formal rigor, objectivity and cogent generalities of the early minimalists into psychological areas of artistic investigation.
Oppenheim's treatment, within a given work, of our basic fears, desires and frustrations can be said to be an empirical one insofar as it can be compared to the spectator's own.
Oppenheim's technique of relating conjecture as if it were actual fact is executed so effectively that the idea of will, which seems to be the real subject of this piece, is made accessible.
www.ccca.ca /c/writing/k/klepac/klep002t.html   (3973 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim
New York based conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim was educated during the 1960's at CCAC in Oakland, CA.
As Oppenheim himself said, "Land Art was my entrance into Conceptual Art." Land Art had a physicality and ephemerality that was essential to the work, and, unconventionally for the time, it relied on photography for communication.
Oppenheim was included in both the Venice Biennale and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1997.
www.hainesgallery.com /Main_Pages/Artist_Pages/DOPP.bio.html   (196 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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LES Dennis is to stage a TV comeback with a new daily quiz show five years after Family Fortunes was axed.
Here is Dennis' new poem, while in the Mantro Valley of Peru, and a review of his TV and Radio appearances.
dennisoppenheim.fourdennis.com   (1894 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim
Oppenheim has had many European exhibitions and his permanent outdoor pieces are scattered far and wide.
Oppenheim's way out of the nonobject impasse, necessary because his Body Works became increasingly self-destructive, was the surrogate figure: a puppet or dummy self-portrait.
I am not sure that this was what Oppenheim was thinking of, but his work surely lends itself to an unfurling of meanings, which is a symptom of a certain kind of greatness.
www.johnperreault.com /_wsn/page14.html   (1277 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim: One of the Key Figures of American Conceptual Art - Irish Museum of Modern Art - Absolutearts.com
Dennis Oppenheim: Land and Body comprises 16 Land and Body works from the 1960s and '70s including video and three-dimensional installations, mechanised sculptures and large photo and text pieces, which document key works.
In 1970 Oppenheim described his attitude to traditional art spaces: To me a piece of sculpture inside a room is a disruption of interior space.
The Oppenheim face on the puppet suggest that the artist, despite the myth of autonomy, is constantly manipulated by external forces.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/02/28/28158.html   (864 words)

  
 eyestorm - Dennis Oppenheim - biography
Returning to California in 1961, Oppenheim became increasingly aware of the discourse regarding Minimalism through the writings of Robert Morris, Robert Smithson and Dan Flavin in what was then the bible of art discourse, Artforum.
Oppenheim was represented only by a small model of his Mount Copaxi Transplant, a scheme to plough the pattern of concentric rings of Mount Copaxi in South America into the fields of Lebanon, Kansas - the geographic center of the US.
Oppenheim has often stated that, through walking around on the land, he became acutely aware of his body.
www.eyestorm.com /artist/Dennis_Oppenheim_biography.aspx   (806 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For Oppenheim, shapes are not neutral nor fixed, they have to be the expression of a movement, even virtual, and tell something.
Trough the notion of multiplicity and ambiguity, his itinerary is tortuous and disturbing: it moves in circular and parabolic lines that run from one point to another, rarely returning to the point of departure, and marks the loss of certain answer.
Oppenheim pushes associations and contents to their limit.
www.galeriepieceunique.com /infoframes/oppenheim.htm   (181 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim Online
Dennis Oppenheim in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Dennis Oppenheim at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Interview from the Oral History project
All images and text on this Dennis Oppenheim page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/oppenheim_dennis.html   (195 words)

  
 Sculpture Community - News - Dennis Oppenheim's sculpture rejected by Stanford
So, conceptually speaking, Oppenheim is either saying that organized religion is near death and dying or that it better get it's head out of the sand if it hopes to have any influence on the world of today.
Oppenheim (M.F.A. '66), a New York-based sculptor, had arranged the donation, and the choice of the work to be donated, with the director of Stanford's museum, and the panel that oversees the school's large collection of outdoor art had approved after seeing an earlier version of "Device" that had been installed in Omaha.
Oppenheim was happy to talk with Andrew Blum about "Device," which he first made for the 1997 Venice Biennale, and its rejection.
www.sculpture.net /modules.php?name=News&file=showarticle&threadid=1153   (2264 words)

  
 Icar Foundation - Dennis Oppenheim Selected Works
Oppenheim shares his philosophy and his views of artistic practice with a number of conceptualists and other artists who aim at searching for and defining the essence of ideas and objects, as
Oppenheim's rigorous conceptual orientation and inquiry into underlying and shaping experiences - going "into the heart of the matter" - transcend both the self-analysis of traditional conceptual art and the quasi-scientific vernacular of some more recent conceptualist work.
In one of the early Land Art pieces, Annual Rings (1968), Oppenheim traced the growth rings of a tree as large concentric circles in the snow dissected by the line of the United States-Canada border.
www.icarfoundation.org /dennis_oppenheim_text.htm   (547 words)

  
 ASU Art Museum | DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Alternative Current
Oppenheim’s career from 1967 to the present is reflected in this exhibition of 37 works of sculpture, models, drawings and photo documents.
Dennis Oppenheim was born in Electric City, Washington, 1938.
DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Alternate Current (October 22, 2004 through February 5, 2005) is open at the ASU Art Museum: Tuesday from 10am – 9pm, and Wednesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
asuartmuseum.asu.edu /oppenheim/index.html   (330 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim was a Sixties radical and one of the key figures of American Conceptual art, an art form that aimed to express ideas rather than primarily create visual images.
Oppenheim's work was not to do with environmental interests or a connection with mother earth but the creation of a new art form and theory.
Oppenheim didn't want to bring all the paraphernalia of the gallery to Body art; but he needed to document what he was doing.
www.ivenus.com /culture/arts/reviews/CU-EX-Review-wk48.asp   (355 words)

  
 oppenheim-bio
Dennis Oppenheim is born in 1938 in Electric City,Washington.
Oppenheim creates Landslide, one of the first earthworks, quickly editorialized by both TIME and LIFE magazines as an example of the new expression.
Oppenheim begins to create smaller, interior works, in which we can identify, as a unifying theme, a new awareness of mortality.
www.wbff.org /oppenheim/xox/biography.html   (1620 words)

  
 Artisti
Born in 1938 in Electric City, Washington, Dennis Oppenheim has lived and worked in New York since he moved there in 1967 with an MFA from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Oppenheim’s artistic oeuvre can be defined as a process of discontinuity that articulates the various stages of his career.
In keeping with his creative instinct, Oppenheim has crossed and often defined the contexts for some of the most important art movements of the past thirty years without ever relying on the security of his position, instead accepting the risks of such idiosyncratic circumstances.
www.castellodirivoli.it /eng/homepage/Collezione/Frame/Pagine/artisti/Oppenheim.htm   (104 words)

  
 Sculpture.org
Dennis Oppenheim has been a pioneering artist in conceptualism, land art, body art, video, and sculpture since the late 1960s.
Oppenheim: That piece, initially called Church, was proposed to the Public Art Fund in the city of New York to be built last year on Church Street, where I live.
Oppenheim: The binding agent is the continued intoxication I receive by using art to target itself, to interrogate itself.
www.sculpture.org /documents/scmag97/oppenh/sm-oppen.shtml   (1990 words)

  
 CMA Exhibition Feature : Dennis Oppenheim (American, born 1938) Echo, 1973
Using his own body, Oppenheim pared the language of mark-making down to its most direct form: the surface of the artist's body meeting the surface of the wall.
Their reverberations form a trace of Oppenheim's slapping movements, defining the space in aural terms, and suggesting the possibility of breaking through its physical limits.
Dennis Oppenheim is recognized as a pioneer of earth art and an innovator in conceptual art.
www.clemusart.com /exhibcef/light/html/3256648.html   (286 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim studeert tot 1965 aan het California College of Arts and Crafts en de Stanford University.
Oppenheim heeft in zijn fotowerken de relatie tussen de mensen onderling en de relatie met zijn omgeving op een zeer intieme wijze voorgesteld.
Met deze werkwijze, alsof het de presentatie van een projectbureau betreft, documenteerde Oppenheim een project, dat in 1975 in het Artpark Lewiston in New York is uitgevoerd, maar dat al in 1970 werd bedacht en voorgesteld.
www.kunstbus.nl /verklaringen/dennis+oppenheim.html   (360 words)

  
 Dark laughter - mixed-media and installation art, Dennis Oppenheim, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal Art in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since 1987, Dennis Oppenheim has been constructing a body of work which is as unsettling as it is ambiguous.
Oppenheim's distortions of man and nature seemed to accentuate the perversity of the almost painfully sculpted hedges and cylindrical bushes that divide and articulate the extensive grounds.
Oppenheim filled the mansion with a variety of works from 1988 to the present.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n4_v85/ai_19320041   (922 words)

  
 Introduction Page
You can't start to understand the art of Dennis Oppenheim without first getting some background info on this fabulous man, so don't just sit around scratching your head, read on....
Dennis has had a fruitful career as a conceptual and performance artist, but you gotta read this section to find out more.
To put it simply, Dennis Oppenheim is one of America's finest and most creative conceptual and performance artists around.
www.comm.unt.edu /histofperf/MelindaGon/DennisOppenheimIntroPage.htm   (384 words)

  
 Milwaukee's Blue Shirt left hanging - Artworld - artist Dennis Oppenheim and Milwaukee's General Mitchel International ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Oppenheim told A.i.A. that the problems with the piece are not about timing or money, but about politics.
Oppenheim says he is determined to complete the work, even if he has to use his own money.
Oppenheim responded by hiring a team of local lawyers to begin legal proceedings against the county board.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_91/ai_99554626   (556 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim Artmosphere Galerien Bilder Kunstwerke im Handel Galerie Auktion
Oppenheim was born in 1938 in Washington State.
The force that drives Dennis Oppenheim onward in his relentless output of interventions and actions, ideas and forms, constructions and explorations is energy that is never quenched and never gives way to inertia.
What matters is not the individual island of painting or sculpture, performance or film but the traffic and network of events, forces and figurations established in the creative process that holds the whole system together.
www.kunstmarkt.com /pagesprz/oppenheim_dennis/_i33548_d49006_r33563-/show_praesenz.html?&words=%20Oppenheim%2C+Dennis   (309 words)

  
 Slought Foundation: "Tactics: Early Video Works by Dennis Oppenheim, 1970-1974" with Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim has received international attention for a body of conceptual artwork that includes performance, sculpture, and photographs.
In the early 1970s, Oppenheim was in the vangard of artists using film and video as a means to investigate themes relating to Body Art, Conceptual Art, and performance.
Oppenheim is an artist who from the very beginning has created for himself complete freedom of procedure, as evidenced from his early earthworks to the installations of the 1960s and 1970s.
slought.org /content/11314   (741 words)

  
 Price Tower Arts Center - Dennis Oppenheim
The core of the Dennis Oppenheim Collection begins with 42 scale models that range from his early and important Land Art projects of the 1960s to those for the artist’s large-scale public art commissions of the past decade.
Oppenheim was moved to make the donation after visiting the Arts Center for the opening of his exhibition and seeing how the museum explores the intersection of modern art, design and architecture.
Following the legacies of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff, Dennis Oppenheim’s work in the collection will provide a contemporary point of reference for the understanding of the relationship between art, architecture and design.
www.pricetower.org /collections/dennis-oppenheim   (271 words)

  
 Dennis Oppenheim Bibliography
This website contains a biography on Dennis Oppenheim, plus information and visuals on his past, current, and future exhibitions.
This site is a reference page and index for the Art in Context Center for Dennis Oppenheim.
biography of Dennis Oppenheim by Celent, along with an interview with Oppenheim himself.
www.comm.unt.edu /histofperf/MelindaGon/DennisOppenheimBiblio.htm   (206 words)

  
 Monográficos de arte - Arte10.com
Era común que Oppenheim, de forma similar a como hicieran sus contemporáneos Smithson o Heizer, realizara dibujos en la nieve o en campos de cultivo con grandes máquinas, obras que fotografiaba como documentación.
A principios de la década siguiente, Oppenheim se sirve de su propio cuerpo como materia y lugar artístico realizando performances solo o con miembros de su familia (sus hijos, su hija, su padre).
De hecho, a mediados de esta década, y a diferencia de muchos de los artistas conceptuales y del Land Art con los que comenzó a trabajar en su juventud y que continuaron fieles a dicha tendencia, será cuando su obra y su manera misma de concebir la creación sufran un cambio trascendental.
www.arte10.com /noticias/monografico-182.html   (912 words)

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