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Visser, Carel, 1928-2015

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1928-05-03 - 2015-03-01

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Quotes On Cage / Visser, Carel., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-60003-63631
Scope and Contents Internet: Kees Visser (b. 1948) has gradually created his own self-taught path over the last forty years. Parting from his native Holland, where in the mid-1970s he had worked in a vein oscillating between abstraction and Fluxus, Kees Visser left to settle in Iceland, where he lived for nearly twenty years. In Iceland, he was not only in contact with a nature that profoundly marks his work, but also an incredibly cosmopolitan art scene where artists such as Dieter Roth, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Roni Horn, Hrein Fridffinson, Adrian Schiess, Gunther Umberg, Richard Long, etc. often crossed paths. Co-founder with a group of Icelandic artists of the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik in 1978, Kees Visser became a prominent figure in the Icelandic art world, present in most of the public and private collections in the country. Invited for a residency in Paris in the mid-1990s, it was then in France that Kees Visser developed his work on series, shape and color, creating the monochrome...
Dates: 1968