Banks Violette
| Type | Male Artist |
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| URLs | Wikipedia (en) Institutions/museums Saatchi Gallery (en) Institutions/museums Gladstone Gallery (en) |
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| Solo exhibition | 2010 | Blanks Violette | Museum Dhont-Dhaenens | Deurle (BE) | |
| Solo exhibition | 2008 | Focus: Banks Violette | Museum of Modern Art | Fort Worth, Texas (US) | |
| Group exhibition | 2008 | The Great Transformation - Art and Tactical Magic | Frankfurter Kunstverein | Frankfurt (DE) | |
| Group exhibition | 2006 | While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Zurich (CH) | |
| Solo exhibition | 2005 | Banks Violette | The Whitney Museum of American Art | New York (US) |
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| Monography | 2017 | The New York Times | An Artist Returns From the Edge | Andrew Goldstein | ISSN 0362-4331 | New York (US) | ||||||
| Monography | 2009 | Walter König | Banks Violette | Neville Wakefield | B01K3NIKH8 | Cologne (DE) |
Education
New York, USA
Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York
Education
New York, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Visual Arts, New York
Born
Ithaca, New York, USA
... Violette’s works were also less campy and juvenile than a lot of art from that scene, courting curators with smart formal references to seventies-era sculptors like Robert Smithson and Barry Le Va. That sense of history gives him a direction out of the goth ghetto, and on June 28, when he opens his first New York solo show in five years (a double, at both Team and Gladstone galleries), the art world will be clamoring to see whether he’s come into the light. The new work has no evil-teen backstory, like the 1995 murder of a teenage girl by Slayer fans that inspired his 2002 installation Arroyo Grande.Instead, it’s a landscape of sculptural forms—broken grids and mirrors, scatterings of fluorescent tubes—reminiscent of Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra. Except that LeWitt and Serra never hooked their art up to propane tanks or refrigeration units.
http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/33973/ (28.11.2018)
Mit seinen schwarz glänzenden Skulpturen und seinen hyperrealistischen Zeichnungen, die häufig mit der Kategorie New Gothicin Verbindung gebracht werden, greift Banks Violette sowohl auf der formal-ästhetischen als auch auf der inhaltlichen Ebene die Ikonographie von Heavy Metal auf. Er exemplifiziert die in den Subkulturen der Black-Metal-Musik inszenierte Symbolik von Tod und Verfall, die zwischen Schönheit und Grausamkeit oszilliert. Die Abgründe und Absurditäten der amerikanischen Gesellschaft bilden dabei die thematische Grundlage seines Werkes.
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https://www.ropac.net/artist/banks-violette (28.11.2018)
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Not Yet Titled (Light Spill) | 2007 | Banks Violette | |
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Throne (and over and over again) | 2009 | Banks Violette | |