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May 1, 2017 · Rest in Peace, Vito Acconci (1940–2017) Originally Published: May 01, 2017. ARTnews brings the shocking news that Vito Acconci has died at the age of 77.
Vito Acconci (Italian: [ˈviːto akˈkontʃi], ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design.
- Childhood
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- The Legacy of Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci was born in Bronx, New York, the only son to Italian immigrant parents. He was named after his grandfather, who was ill at the time but later recovered. Growing up, he resented his Italian heritage: "As a child I hated my Italian background; I wanted to be an American. Later at high school dances, for example - I hated introdu...
Acconci earned his BA with a major in literature from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1962 after which he completed his MFA in writing at the University of Iowa. Upon completing his studies in 1964, Acconci returned to New York City to pursue a career as a poet. There, he first encountered the works of Jasper Johnsthat left a prof...
In 1974, Acconci stopped performing, and between 1974 and 1979, he created installations and sculptures that would often incorporate video and audio. This shift signified the artist's desire to take the focus off himself and concentrate on the viewer, and their interaction with the artwork: "Whereas in the beginning I could see my stuff as 'person ...
By 2000, Acconci Studio expanded to a total of eight collaborators including Acconci himself. Around the same time, he met his second wife Maria, over forty years his junior, while giving a commencement speech at Pratt Institute. The couple got married, and later worked together at Acconci Studio. During the 2000s, the studio realized one of their ...
As a pioneer of Performance and Video Art, Acconci influenced a generation of younger artists, such as Tania Bruguera, Mike Kelley, Laurie Anderson, and Matthew Barney. With Acconci's work as a starting point, in her seminal essay "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism" (1976), art critic Rosalind Krauss argued that the aesthetics of narcissism emerg...
- American
- January 24, 1940
- New York City, United States
- April 27, 2017
Murinsel (in the night) in Graz, Austria. Vito Acconci (Italian: [ˈviːto akˈkontʃi], / əˈkɒntʃi /; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) [2][3] was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design.
Apr 28, 2017 · Vito Acconci, Whose Poetic, Menacing Work Forms Bedrock of Performance, Video Art, Dies at 77. Acconci. “Everything I did in art was based on a hatred of art and a hatred of museums, because it...
Apr 28, 2017 · Vito Acconci, an artist and architect who pushed the boundaries of conceptual art, died on Thursday. He was 77 years old. Acconci leaves behind an influential body of work, including Following Piece (1969), a performance in which he trailed strangers throughout New York City; Seedbed (1972), which saw him masturbate under the floor of a gallery ...
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Apr 28, 2017 · Artist and architect Vito Acconci died today from a stroke at the age of 77. For a little under two decades, Acconci produced strikingly original and impressionable art, before abandoning it...
