ZUM TOD DES US-AMERIKANISCHEN KÜNSTLERS BRICE MARDEN

Der am 15. Oktober 1938 in Bronxville (New York) geborene US-amerikanische Künstler Brice Marden ist am 9. August 2023 in Tivoli (New York) gestorben. Marden nahm an zahlreichen Gruppenausstellungen teil (u. a. 1972 an der Documenta 5 in Kassel) und wurde in Einzelausstellungen und Retrospektiven gewürdigt, zuerst 1975 im Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. 2006 eröffnete im Museum of Modern Art, New York, die Ausstellung «Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings», die im Frühjahr 2007 auch im San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gezeigt wurde und im Herbst 2007 im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin zu sehen war. Deutschlands Kunstkritiker haben sie zur «Ausstellung des Jahres 2007» gekürt. (*). 2022 zeigte das Kunstmuseum Basel die vielbeachtete Ausstellung «Brice Marden. Inner Space» (Bild).

Bild: Brice Marden, The Muses, 1991-1993, Öl auf Leinwand – Foto: Julian Salinas, Kunstmuseum Basel 2022

Brice Marden, Who Rejuvenated Painting in the 1960s, Dies at 84

When conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and many were saying that painting was dead, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement.

William Grimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/arts/brice-marden-dead.html

Brice Marden, who re-energized the art of painting in the 1960s with his subdued, yet seductive, monochrome canvases, and who drew on minimalism, abstract expressionism, scholar’s rocks, Chinese calligraphy and Tang dynasty poetry in a six-decade career marked by restless experimentation, died Aug. 10 at his home in Tivoli, N.Y.

Harrison Smith

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/11/brice-marden-abstract-painter-dead/

Brice Marden, who drew from Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism in pathbreaking explorations of gesture, line, and color that put him in a category of one, died August 9 at his home in Tivoli, New York. (…) Marden rose to fame in the early 1970s with his densely hued multipanel works, which he created just as painting had gone out of fashion, thus reviving the medium for a new generation.

https://www.artforum.com/news/brice-marden-1938-2023-90880

«Brice Marden was one of our greatest American artists, whose achievement in continuing and extending the tradition of painting has long been recognized and celebrated the world over. He was a painter of rare insight into the pleasure and poetry of his medium; always dedicated to gesture, chance, substance—the elemental matters of art,« Larry Gagosian said in an email to Artnet News. »It has been an honor to share his masterful work with an international audience. This loss is profound, and he will be missed.»

Sarah Cascone

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/painter-brice-marden-died-2348079

Marden rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s, synthesizing elements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism and more into his own unique idiom

Wallace Ludel

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/10/brice-marden-painter-obituary

Marden’s explorations into abstraction were committed. Once asked if he had ever wanted to paint figuratively, he responded simply: «No.» Yet the artists he loved often came from figuration.

As painters were attempting to break free of the frame, and in some cases the canvas itself, Marden applied himself to the medium’s reinvention. «People were saying ‘painting is dead’», he once explained. «It was my way of saying what can be done.» He called rectangles «a great human invention.»

Edward Helmore

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/10/brice-marden-dies-aged-84

Le peintre Brice Marden, expérimentateur libre de l’abstraction, est mort

L’artiste américain, refusant le minimalisme et le conceptualisme, pensait ses toiles comme des harmonies nées de sensations vivantes. Il est mort le 9 août à l’âge de 84 ans.

Philippe Dagen

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2023/08/13/le-peintre-brice-marden-experimentateur-libre-de-l-abstraction-est-mort_6185320_3382.html

Der letzte Erbe des Abstrakten Expressionismus

Von der Fläche zum Geflecht: Mit seiner Malerei führte Brice Marden ein langes Leben lang die Möglichkeiten seines Mediums vor.

Daniel Völzke

https://www.monopol-magazin.de/brice-marden-nachruf

Malerische Odysseen zwischen Hydra und den Eisbergen

Was Cy Twombly der sonnenflirrende Blick auf das Mittelmeer und Roms Altertümer war, ist seinem amerikanischen Malerkollegen Brice Marden die griechische Insel Hydra gewesen – ein nie leerzusehendes Reservoir an Formgelegenheiten wie Olivenbäumen und Mythenfiguren, die der Künstler, oft fälschlicherweise dem Minimal zugeordnet, ab 1972 in überbordender Fülle auf die Leinwand brachte.

Stefan Trinks

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/zum-tod-des-us-kuenstlers-brice-marden-19096785.html

Audio / Video:

Brice Marden: Inner Space / Kunstmuseum Basel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWkdMyAAQ8

Zum Tod des Künstlers Brice Marden – Josef Helfenstein, Kunstmuseum Basel, im Gespräch

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zum-tod-des-kuenstlers-brice-marden-josef-helfenstein-kunstmuseum-basel-im-g-dlf-a76f2e57-100.html

Mehr:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051223041004/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_101.html

https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/brice-marden

https://www.christies.com/features/Complements-by-Brice-Marden-One-Sale-Christies-10751-1.aspx

https://gagosian.com/artists/brice-marden/