Not sure how relevant all of these are to detroit techno, but here are some of more recent artists i was looking at in my 4+ years of art school, most are recent enough to be "contemporary" but old enough to have big glossy books published on their work:
bill viola - video gary hill - video matthew barney - video/film moriko mori - video tony oursler - video/sculpture mona hatoum - video/sculpture mike kelley - sculpture/painting (went to Univ. of Mich. and is friends w/ sonic youth) charles long - sculpture (did a cool sculpture installation w/ music of stereolab) jessica stockholder - sculpture/mixed media dennis oppenheim - sculpture/mixed media donald judd - minimal sculpture (but wont call it minimal) richard serra - minimal sculpture robert morris - the granddaddy of modern minimalism robert irwin - light based sculpture/installation james turrell - light based sculpture/installation dan flavin - light based sculpture gerhard richter - painter ross bleckner - painter howard hodgkin - painter sure i'm forgetting a lot since i've only been following music lately. i've also always thought that early detroit techno had a lot in common w/ the italian futurist art movement of the 1920's. They had a big manifesto about how art needed to embrace technology and they were always working with themes of industrialization, motion, autos/transportation, time and space. also maybe check out some of the printmaking of max ernst (source of the brinkmann moniker)- thats some pretty crazy stuff. -p On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, jes wrote: > > > Mark Rothko. Minimal painter, do a Google search on his name and > > you'll find a wealth of material. I know that Richie Hawtin has > > name-dropped > > him and I believe Mills has too. > > anish kapoor does amazing compositions and sculpture. rich named him as > a strong influence on consumed. > > /j > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
