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vito (hannibal) acconci



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"Em Conversion (1970), colocava em questão a sua masculinidade queimando os pêlos do corpo e escondendo o pénis entre as pernas. Em Seedbed (1971), masturbava-se enquanto os espectadores iam subindo uma rampa donde o observavam. Ou seja: é nesta alteridade, eu sou o outro, nas palavras de Rimbaud, que se constrói o trabalho de Vito Acconci, conjugando body artconceptual art, de que o seu corpo enquanto poema é uma metáfora."


Acconci nasceu em Nova York em 1940, e teve o seu início nas sete artes através da literatura, como poeta. Ficou famoso nos anos 60-70 por suas apresentações, nas quais explorava os limites físicos do artista, assim como sua aceitação pela sociedade. O seu papel mais notável foi, em 1972, com "Seedbed", que envolvia a masturbação sob uma plataforma de madeira, levando a fantasia às pessoas que passavam sobre a madeira.

Em 1974, o artista abandonou esse tipo de arte e começou a montar peças esculturais, onde era necessário a participação dos espectadores, chegando a desafiar as funções comerciais e educacionais dos museus e galerias de arte.

Ficou famoso nos anos 70, com seus trabalhos artísticos fazendo incursões dentro da psicologia e sociologia, tendo feito, também, trabalhos na corrente musical da época chamada de "New Wave".






Acconci was born in the bronx / new york on 24.01.1940.
his father, an italian imigrant, introduced him to the arts
(and the art of living) taking him to museums and opera houses.
he received a B.A. in literature from holy cross college and
an M.F.A. in literature and poetry from the university of iowa.
until 1968 his work was in a context of writing and poetry.
acconci was interested in the space of the page,
a structure within which the reader and writer could move through.
he made his first visual artworks by combining photographs
with texts to document task-oriented activities.
these works announced the dialogue between camera and body
that would become an essential aspect of acconci's subsequent
art work, particularly the series of super-8 films and videos.
between 1969 and 1974 he started to perform himself what he would
otherwise have written and developed over 200 conceptually
structured and radical body-related pieces that were extremely
simple in formal terms, but highly intricate psychologically .
these performances and installations were extremely controversial
because they were a direct confrontation with the viewer.
acconci's artworks are now considered classical examples of
what we now call conceptual art and have earned him international
recognition. his work has been widely shown internationally in
museums and art galleries.
acconci's interest in the human body and its relationship to public
space became architecture, landscape architecture and
furniture design. at the end of the 80's he started 'acconci studio',
a group of architects who design projects for public spaces-streets
and plazas, gardens and parks, building lobbies and transportation
centers. the architectural practice is based in brooklyn, new york.

http://www.acconci.com/ (acconci na arquitectura)

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