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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.
Vito Acconci was an American artist who explored the body and public space in performance, video, sculpture, architecture and design. Learn about his life, works and influences, such as Situationism, Laurie Anderson and Tracey Emin.
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.
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- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- 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
Apr 28, 2017 · Vito Acconci, a father of performance and video art and a shamanistic, poetic, deeply influential force on the New York art scene for decades, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He...
Apr 28, 2017 · Vito Acconci, a towering figure with influences on both performance art and experimental architecture, has died at the age of 77. A cause of death has not been confirmed by the estate. Art Agency Partners, an adviser to the Acconci Studio and estate, confirmed the news in an email this afternoon.
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Dec 1, 2012 · Vito Acconci began his career as a poet concerned less with the meaning of words than the page-space they inhabited. In the late 1960s, he became a photographer, video and performance artist...
