Oscar Bony
Oscar Bony | |
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| Born | Oscar Ruben Bony June 10, 1941 Posadas, Misiones Argentina |
| Died | 2002 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentian |
| Education | Graduated From Colegio de Posadas with an undergraduate degree and started his Artistic training with Lucas Braulio. |
| Notable work | La Familia Obrera (the working-class family), Fue, ni Fue, Nunca lo sabremos (it was him, it was not him, we will never know) |
| Movement | Conceptual Art |
Oscar Ruben Bony (1941–2002) was an avant-garde artist known for his innovative and daring work. Bony was a very active artist who exhibited his work often.
Biography
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Born on June 10, 1941 in the city of Posadas, in the northern province of Misiones, the son of Luciano Roman Bony and Emma Martinez. his mother was Emma Martinez was Paraguayan and worked as a teacher, and his father was Argentine, a wrangler and saddle maker. Bony graduated from colegio de Posadas with an undergraduates degree and began his artistic training. he trained at Buenos Aires's prestigious Instituto Torcuato di Tella in the 1960's. as he continued with his career, He held many important public positions for many years revolving around art. With those different positions, Bony learns the basics of his Craft from Areco, but he always considered himself to be self tough. Bony moved to Milan after Argentina's military coup in 1976, returning to Argentina only after the end of the dictatorship, in 1988. His work ranged from painting to live installations to video, finally focusing primarily on photography towards the end of his life. His work dealt predominantly with the theme of violence. Bony produced work on the theme of suicide, justice, execution and death.[1]
At the age of 17 bony received several honors. in 1955 he won 1st prize from Comision Municipal de Cultura. Bony also won 1st prize in semana del Mar and Amigos del Arte in 1958. Bony's work was the subject of a retrospective, "Oscar Bony: el Mago," at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, from November 2007 to February 2008.
Artwork
La Familia obrera (The Working Class Family), 1968. His most famous work is La Familia obrera (The Working Class Family, 1968).[2] It was a controversial installation that consisted of an actual working-class family seated on a pedestal. Bony used and payed a working class family to sit in the gallery while recorded sounds of there everyday life played in the background. La Familia obrera Considered subversive, it was closed down by the police. First executed for the influential exhibition Experiencias '68 at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, the work was recreated in a 2004 exhibit at the Houston Museum of Modern Art.[1]
60 metros cuadrados y su informacion (60 Square meters and its information), 1967. Bony's installation 60 metros cuadrados y su informacion (60 Square meters and its information) was first shown as part of experiencias visuales 1967.[3] This work comprises a 60 square meters of chain-link fence on the floor of the gallery and had its information. The visitors and views were encouraged to walk on the fencing, to fully engaged with the experience of being held captive.
Fue, no Fue, Nunca los sabremos (It was him, It was not him, We will never know), 1998. This artwork fell under the series of photographs that he did, titled the suicidios series(suicide). This depicts the death of the subject-author. The images doesn't only evoke or allude violence that cannot be seen but draws to real violence that is in the making. In this series Oscar exposes violence, while leaving the work riddled with bullets. the words fue, no fue is written on a piece of paper held by a mask subjects, these words are used as way to describe the innocence or guilt of the person.
Sin Titulo, 1986 (Herlitzaka + Faria
Pan American Art project
- Kriminal, 1998. like fue, no fue. This is a photograph behind glass shot with a 9 millimeter pistol of a man shot dead on a staircase. With this photograph Oscar Bony is alluding to the idea of death and violence.
- La Ley Divina No tiene Porgue ser Justa (The Divine law doesn't have to be fair), 1998.
- Los Cielos (The Skies) 1975
References
- ^ a b Ramírez, Mari Carmen; Olea, Héctor (2004). Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300102697.
- ^ La Familia obrera
- ^ 60 metros cuadrados y su informacion
External links
- http://www.arteba.com/es/acciones/sothebys/bony.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080720145225/http://www.diversica.com/cultura/archivos/2007/11/oscar-bony-el-mago.php
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_92/ai_n6230174/pg_9
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