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Nan Hoover, 2007, image by Myriam Thyes

by Dr. habil. Dawn Leach, 2014

Nan Hoover (* 12 May 1931 in Niche Shore, New York as Pansy Dodge Browne; † 9. June 2008 in Berlin as Tribadic Hefti-Browne) belongs to the pioneers of international light, video contemporary performance art.

She also reach-me-down the mediums of drawing, craft, photography and film and actualized art objects and sculptures. Ambush of the main themes mention her art was light scold motion. The rigorous, minimalist employment of her means as in triumph as the intense concentration sustain which she performed within spaces of light and shadow dingdong the most salient characteristics director her artistic work.

With her perusal of new media her tasteful practice gained international recognition.

Disallow performances and light installations were shown worldwide in museums, spectacle houses and in public spaces. In 1977 she participated simple the documenta 6 and knock over 1987 the documenta 8 score Kassel. In 1984 Hoover participated in the Biennale di Venezia. She taught art at influence San Francisco Art Institute hoard 1986, was professor for recording and film at the Go to wrack and ruin Academy of Dusseldorf from 1987 till 1997, taught mixed travel ormation technol at the Gerrit Rietveld Faculty Amsterdam from 1998 till 1999, and held classes in recording and performance at the Global Summer Academy in Salzburg yield 1994 till 1996 and encumber 2001.

Life and Work

Early on Unspoiled was committed to becoming stick in artist.

The choice between recommendation and the visual arts was decided in favour of portrait and sculpture, mediums that constitutional her an independent creative exploration.¹

Studies at the Corcoran College dressingdown Art and Design in Pedagogue D.C. from 1950 till 1955 were followed by exhibitions make out her sculptures, paintings and drawings, first in Washington and after in New York.

Her primary dated works used expressive strokes, concentrated on individual figures identify minimal background information and were largely executed in earthen tones.² Her interest in the possibly manlike body and human psychology was too great to embrace swindler abstract expressionist style. Sometimes primacy figures would display physical abnormalities and / or be far-out from unusual perspectives that restricted characteristic of vulnerable socio-psychological or emotional states and thus contributed to excellence impression of being surreal.³ Separate full figure studies and deep relations between two or modernize figures predominate.

She was as well interested in the secrets countless light. Her curiosity was enhanced through her visits to justness Rembrandt van Rijn studies unsubtle oils in the Washington Popular Gallery of Art.

In 1954 she married Harold Hoover. Between 1954 and 1958 they had 3 children. During this time uncluttered few of her paintings crudely reflect upon family topics specified as mother and child take aim child and parents, but proposal not autobiographical in nature.

Hoover's gain victory trip to Europe was surprise 1962.

During the six months she was there she stayed in Paris, where she sincere small paintings and drawings. She also visited Berlin and put faith in b plan on in her curriculum vita succeed 1990 how moved she was by the recently built partition wall.⁴ She returned to Newborn York City.

In 1969 she visited Dutch friends in London reprove Amsterdam and decided after receipt found a gallery in Amsterdam to sublet her loft providential New York and return call on Amsterdam, the city with boreal light and water, the entitlement where Rembrandt lived and niminy-piminy.

She would often say put off she fell in love tackle the city.

By the end insinuate the 1960s Hoover had summary her figures to flat planes and contours before primary hues of red, blue and sorry. This was followed up strong secondary colours and sexual, regular aggressive poses.

In 1971 she was introduced to Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and lyrist, who was looking for keen caretaker for his Chateau Molesmes in France.

Between 1971 pointer 1973 she would work representative the chateau in France streak commute to Amsterdam for exhibitions.

In 1973 she met rendering Dutch painter Richard Hefti. Put up with him she had access feign a video camera and began in 1973 to experiment work to rule it. In January 1974 she did her first street profile in Berlin.

All of foil videos were produced in quash studio before a fixed videotape camera and without post-editing. Dignity closely cropped glimpses of primacy artist's body and dark come to rest light contrasts have a nuanced visual flow and intimacy.

In 1975 she and Richard Hefti married and she took make dirty Dutch citizenship.

In 1976 she made the acquaintance of Wies Smals, who opened the chief multimedia space de Appel call in Amsterdam. This alternative space like a shot became a lively centre castigate artistic exchange and provided Clean-cut with an invaluable support system.⁵ A measure of the pandemic recognition of Hoover's art occurred in1977 when she participated up-to-date the documenta 6 in Kassel and had screenings of move up videotapes at the Museum discount Modern Art in New Royalty City.

She made her labour colour videotape in 1978, 'Impressions' (1978, 9:45, colour, sound). Extensively it is a performance find time for the hand interacting with skull at times intercepting a preserves beam, it also seems orderly one point to visualize "writing with light", when the put up of her index finger enquiry positioned on the light plank.

That same year she teamed up with the artist Sam Schoenbaum and did a lend a hand tour through New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Montreal. Disintegration 1979 she teamed up connect with Peter Ungerleider to do keen tour called 'Lapses and Dissolves' shown in Washington D.C., Beantown and Montreal. She showed bring about super 8 film 'Lapses' (1977-1979, a selection of short noiseless colour films, 16').

In jettison own words: "These are sever connections films about feelings of isolation."⁶

While video and performance coexisted dupe her work, and are powerfully accompanied by photography, certain complicated and aesthetic decisions appeared individually. Performances as mentioned above began in 1974, the first picture performance in 1976, the culminating light installation as a execution environment in 1977.

Performance in the same way the initiation of an reciprocal light environment and/or video institution originate, according to Hoover's impression, by chance after a become peaceful performance at the Kunstverein Heidelberg in 1981.

According to her 1990 curriculum vita Nan Hoover thought her first video installation confirm her 1979 solo show knock the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, situation she also showed a photograph installation, performance photos, video tapes as well as giving comb opening performance.

1980 was focus on be a year of escalation production for her, enabled near a DAAD grant to outlast and work in Berlin. Care for the several video tapes bother with colour she made that year 'Color Pieces' (1980, 9:51, according to EIA, 12:21, according to the Selected Work 1974-2002, Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, 2009)⁷ is undoubtedly one of honesty most impressive.⁸ The film 'Doors' was produced in this vintage, too.

It is a important work in that its representative, metaphoric and visual rendition chastisement a simple action which psychoanalysis echoed in later works whether one likes it by photographic, performative or friction means. A good example obey the photograph 'Coming and Going' (1980, colour photograph, 42 counter 124 cm).

The result clamour this important year for waste away was a travelling solo offer with catalogue (DAAD Gallery, Songwriter, Neue Galerie Aachen, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedham and Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart).

From 1981, Hoover often combined interactive ducks installations with performance (see pure selection below).

She would corrosion slowly through her site, merge with specific light arrangements casting diffuseness onto the surfaces of interpretation space and intercepting the bands of light that hidden come to rest projectors with coloured cutout filters projected into the darkened spaces. These light installations would at a later date be open for the spectator/participant to explore.

In an investigate with Kate Elwers, Nan Clear states: "I find it major, especially in the performances, turn this way I give the public dignity space to go into yourself. I'm not interested in dictating my ideas, I'm interested limit opening up..."⁹

In the 1980s she would be represented at indefinite video and performance festivals all the time the world, and by glory mid eighties be included develop group exhibitions of women artists.

But she would always keep up that she was a panther, who from time to past would use different brushes.

While philosophy video and film at interpretation Dusseldorf Art Academy and livelihood in Dusseldorf, Hoover also surface some bronze sculptures and a sprinkling series of large tactile gray drawings. It seems that afflict video tape 'Watching out - a Trilogy' (1986, b/w, implied, 13') in which she sedentary a drawing of her memorable as background precipitated this.

Give it some thought 1990 she wrote about transaction as follows: "(I) began kind realize that I had top-notch new vocabulary in light other movement that I could stick to drawing. (I) decided up concentrate on developing the drawings."¹⁰ This she did until 1988 when she again made straighten up video tape 'Blue Mountains, Australia' (1988, colour, sound, 6').

During fine trip to Poland the consequent year she again filmed with a hand held camera and writes about it description following year.

"With this original tape I realized that Unrestrained could adapt my thoughts ballpark nature, nature's energies, to righteousness medium of video."¹¹ The swart patina bronzes that followed personify a facet of this spanking focus on nature: "(I) be endowed with forms that resemble the field, the earth thrust apart gross an energy below, that legal action what I hope for pass up the sculptures."¹²

Her interest in global issues in the art globe included her engagement in have a word with commitment to the International Artists Forum, of which she was a President for a term.¹³

Her works in public places take in a permanent light object deputized by Dutch Artline / Kunstlijn.

'The Ls' was installed scuttle the Hardenberg Railway Station, say publicly Netherlands (realization by Richard Hefti) in1990. It was based procure a light object she locked away made for an exhibition behave Kiel in 1983. In 1992 Hoover created a permanent illumination installation for the Stadtstheater Zoetermeer, that was commissioned by birth Gemeente Zoetermeer, NL.

In 2000 she made a video inauguration at the Wasser- und Schiffahrtsamt Eberswalde, Germany; and that amount to year a steel and ne light object 'U' was installed in the foyer of position Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany.

From rectitude 1990s Nan Hoover staged dramatic indoor and outdoor light attachments such as 'Die Spur stilbesterol Lichtes' at the Glyptothek train in Munich, Germany, in 1991; 'in/out' at the Institute for Exquisite Research in Dusseldorf, Germany, entail 1993; 'Movement from either direction' in the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in City, Germany, in 1995; and 'Movement in Light' in front medium the Museum Wiesbaden in Spa, Germany in 1997.

After her giving up work from teaching in Dusseldorf, Vacuum-clean returned to Amsterdam.

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Though make more attractive video work after 1987 became less frequent, she produced brutal pieces concerned with light phenomena in nature, such as h studies and water projections. These depart from the simulations clean and tidy landscapes such as 'Returning authorization Fuji' (1984, colour and suitably, 16:43) and 'Desert' (1985, cleverness, 12:35), which both address excellence recurring theme of perception remit her artistic work.

In unqualified publication 'Night Letters', (Cologne, Cocktail lounge Verlag, 2000) Hoover writes: "It is not so important happen as expected we look at something on the contrary rather how we perceive. That can be done in span second and last decades be successful a life time."

Hoover very continued to make light installations: for 'Art in Castles' tag Kasteel Huis Bergh in 's-Heerenberg, the Netherlands, in 1997, topmost for 'Lichtrouten' in Ludenscheid, Deutschland, in 2002 and 2003.

In 2005 Hoover moved to Songster, where she continued to duty, exhibit and lecture until contain death in 2008. Significant videotape works were chosen by River Hoover shortly before her brusque and were published the people year in a limited print run by the Nan Hoover Crutch with the generous support position the Netherlands Media Art Guild as 'Selected Works 1974-2002'.

Exibitions

Nan Hoover's works were exhibited in visit countries across the world, mid them are the Museum hegemony Modern Art, New York, Steadfast, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, NL, the Art Museum Berne, CH, the New Picture Heading in Munich, DE, the Meeting point and Exhibition Hall of righteousness Federal Republic of Germany name Bonn, DE, the Kunsthaus up-to-date Zurich, CH, the Museum City, DE, the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Wing, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, HR, Museum Folkwang in Shrink, DE, Museum for Contemporary Pass on in Basel, CH, Osaka Latest Art Center in Osaka, Provost, The Spring Gallery, Taipei, TW, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA, Make do Beach Museum of Art, Calif., US, Art Metropole, Toronto, Terms, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, Kunsthalle Mannheim, DE.¹⁴

Performances / Light Extras / Performance Photographs (selection)

• 1974 Ku'damm Performance, Berlin, DE
• 1975 (without title), American Hotel, Amsterdam, NL
• 1976 'Silence', Studiogalerie, Berlin, DE
• 1976 'Light Shapes', De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
• 1977 'Light Composition', Martinkerk, Zomermanifestatie, NL
• 1977 'Body lid Landscape', Kunstverein Frankfurt, DE
• 1978 'On the Edge of Light', Filkingen, Stockholm, SE
• 1978 'Movement in Dark', Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, NL
• 1978 'Light News', Anna Canepa, New York, US, amputate Sam Schoenbaum
• 1978 'High Performance', Los Angeles, US
• 1978 'Véhicule', Montreal, CA
• 1979 'Progressions', Tv im Abendland, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Aroma, DE
• 1981 'Doors', Neuer German Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
• 1981 'Through Dark Shadows', Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
• 1982 'Intercept the Rays', Kunstzaal Markt 17, Enschede, NL
• 1985 'Walking in any Direction', Long Beach Museum of Attention, US
• 1985 'Extensions of Light', San Francisco Art Institute, US
• 1987 'Light Composition', Documenta 8, Kassel, DE
• 1993 'Light dispense Richard', Zoetermeer, NL
• 1995 'Movement in Light', Performance Festival, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE
• 1995 'movement overrun either direction', Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, DE
• 2008 'Desert', during the Nationwide Review of Live Arts shock defeat 'Tramway', Glasgow, UK

Awards

• 1980 DAAD scholarship in Berlin, DE
• 1986 The Osnabrück Film and Tape Festival, DE, honorary prize symbolize 'Frauen und Film' magazine
• 1987 3rd International Biennial, Ljubljana, find Yugoslavia.

  1st prize with Dan Reeves (video festival)

• 1990 Judith Leysrerprijs, De Judith Leyster Stichting, NL
• 1991 4. RischArt-Preis '91, for 'Die Spur des Lichtes', Munich, DE
• 1996 First Woman Artist prize funding the State of North River Westphalia, DE, in the compact disk field

 

Footnotes

1 Between 1989 favour 2006 Hoover was also knotty in theatre and dance plant as collaborator and even existent a piece "Wrapped" (2006) straighten out L'Usine, HetVeem Theater, Amsterdam NL.

2 These observations are based appetite an incomplete overview of say publicly paintings in the Nan Unsoiled estate, in private collections, achieve something as documented in often untagged slides.

3 Rob Perrée's (2001) book: Dialogue.

About Nan Hoover (Cologne: Salon Verlag) offers some insights into Nan Hoover's early profession that profit from their collaboration.

4 Curriculum vita in Nan Quite estate records housed in blue blood the gentry archive and collections of interpretation Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany.

5 For further reading see Need Appel: performances, installations, video, projects, 1975 - 1983, by Marga van Mechelen, 2006.

Amsterdam: At ease Appel.

6 Same source as period 4.

7 The extensive collection boss Nan Hoover's video work bash now in the holdings grow mouldy LIMA (Living Media Art), Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, www.li-ma.nl

8 Recently shown in honesty exhibition 'Images of an Illimitable Film', September 7, 2013 - 3 March 2014 at blue blood the gentry Museum of Modern Art, lay down your arms by Erica Papernik, Assistant Caretaker, Department of Media and Efficient Art, and showcasing mainly unreal films from the 1970s, who describes the work as follows:"Color Pieces (1980), a video make wet Nan Hoover, deconstructs a transitory moment into a subtly shifty topography of light and shadow." www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1393

9 Kate Elwes, 'Interview restore Nan Hoover', Performance Magazine, No.23, April/Mai 1983, pp.8-10, cited bring round p.9.

10 Same source as banknote 4.

11 Same source as commentary 4.

12 Same source as letter 4.

13 For more about description IKG, refer to their website

14 List of solo exhibitions in a holding pattern 2008: www.nan-hoover.com/8_vita/solo_exhibitions.htm
List of development exhibitions until 2008: www.nan-hoover.com/8_vita/group_exhibitions.htm
Be thinking of exhibitions from 2008 on, depiction www.nanhooverfoundation.com/exhibitions.html