Der am 28. Juni 1955 in Newark (New Jersey) geborene US-amerikanische bildende Künstler William Pope.L (Bild) ist am 23. Dezember 2023 in Chicago gestorben. Er war vor allem durch seine Arbeit mit Performance-Kunst und interventionistischer Public Art bekannt geworden. Ausserdem betätigte er sich in den Bereichen Malerei, Fotografie und Theater. Im Jahr 2002 nahm er an der Whitney Biennial teil. 2017 war er in Deutschland an der documenta 14. Im Jahr 2010 wurde Pope.L als Fakultätsmitglied an die University of Chicago berufen. (*)
Bild: William Pope.L porträtiert von Natalja Durizkaja (2013) – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013_Pope.L_Duritskaya_01.jpg
Pope.L, Daredevil Artist Who Invoked Heady Ideas About Blackness, Dies at 68
Across the past four decades, Pope.L amassed an oeuvre of works that thwarted easy readings, offering up situations that alluded to the condition of Black Americans without outright stating what they were trying to communicate. The sculptures, installations, performances, and conceptual artworks that Pope.L created were often provocative and sad—and, more often than not, funny, too, in ways that could be shocking.
Alex Greenberger
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pope-l-artist-dead-1234691298/
Pope.L, the Performance Artist Who Confronted the Complexities of Race and Inequality, Has Died
His passing was announced by his gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which wrote in an Instagram post: «Pope.L fundamentally challenged and changed the last 50 years of visual art in the United States… His elegant, indeterminate, and often humorous, yet bitingly poignant criticism of our history has only recently begun to be fully recognized.»
Min Chen
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/william-pope-l-obituary-2414654
Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68
He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman costume, a work that blended satire and resistance.
Will Heinrich
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/pope-l-dead.html
Artist Pope.L, famous for his crawling performances, dies aged 68
Pope.L, who was also known as William Pope.L, made his first crawling piece in 1978. Wearing a business suit and pushing a potted plant, he crawled the length of 42nd Street in New York on his hands and knees, taking him across Times Square, then heavily populated with homeless people, sex workers, drug addicts and others at society’s margins.
Alex Needham
Das lauteste Flüstern
Pope L. war einer der wichtigsten politischen Konzeptkünstler der USA. Nun ist er überraschend mit 68 Jahren gestorben. Unsere Autorin erinnert sich an seine «Whispering Campaign» für die Documenta 14 und Sätze für die Ewigkeit.
Saskia Trebing
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/pope-l-nachruf
Videos:
Pope.L: Crawl | ARTIST STORIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7OnQkch7s
Pope.L. is Making a Commitment to Art | Louisiana Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs5QkK20M4
William Pope.L: Burying the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yna1yiULmfo
William Pope.L Artist Talk
Mehr:
https://www.theblackfactory.com/
https://www.miandn.com/news/pope-l-performance-at-art-basel-miami-beach
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/popel/
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/611
https://www.gf.org/fellows/william-pope-l/
https://www.bates.edu/museum/2010/04/19/the-black-factory-william-pope-l/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/arts/design/popel-moma-whitney-review.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pope.L
(*) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pope.L
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