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James Lee Byars
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James Lee Byars. The Sage in the Tower
During his first European exhibition in 1969, American conceptual and performance artist James Lee Byars (1932?1997) presented three actions, and with them provided a guideline for experiencing his art: viewers had to believe in the reality he was offering. His premise was the less you had to go by, the greater the scope of your imagination. The artist travelled extensively throughout his life, and maintained his extensive international network by writing letters. Starting from his correspondence with Flor Bex, Lieve De Deyne, and Wies Smals, this Boijmans Study recounts Byars?s activities in the Netherlands and Belgium, and also recounts his formative years in Japan.
James Lee Byars
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James Lee Byars
-There has been virtually no discussion of the formative decade in which Byars lived in Japan, nor the profound influence this country had on his artistic development - until now -The first thorough examination of Byars's days in Japan, the evolution of his art there, and the experiences and relationships that shaped it In the twenty years since the death of the artist and aesthetic heretic James Lee Byars, episodes from his life have taken on the aura of urban legend. Born in Detroit in 1932, he spent much of his adult life outside the United States and died in Cairo, Egypt in 1997. No country, however, influenced his development as an artist more profoundly than Japan, where he lived for m...
James Lee Byars
This catalogue shows objects and spatial installations by the conceptual and performance artist James Lee Byars. The photographer Claudio Abate, as a congenial observer, astutely identifies the artist's ideas and follows the lines of the perfect axis, making the dialogue between the architecture of the exhibition space and the works of art visible.The canon of Byars's sculptural forms includes cubes, spheres, cylinders, pyramids and stars, all with emblematic values. Materials and colours, particularly white marble, velvet, black and red, are used to stress the semantic aspect of the work. With the 'gold ground' Byars unites the untouchable, the absolute or the spiritual, which the perfect form, the sphere, visually exaggerates.In playful exchange between interior and exterior architecture, which is the result of a strict choreography of reflections and the axes of vision and motion, the sculptures of James Lee Byars emphasise 'the perfect axis' of Benrath Palace and Park's artistic composition.English and German text.
James Lee Byars
"I see my autobiography as an arbitrary segment of so many pages of time, of things that I have paid attention to at this point in my life," wrote James Lee Byars (1932-1997) in 1969. He was then 37, about half the average male lifespan at the time, and accordingly thought it appropriate to write his "1/2 autobiography." Byars' art ranged from highly refined objects to extremely minimal performance and events, and books, ephemera and correspondence that he distributed widely among friends and colleagues. Today, more than 15 years after his death, assessments of his art must negotiate Byars' performance of his charismatic self in his life and art. For his first major posthumous survey in the ...
JAMES LEE BYARS.
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James Lee Byars
- Exhaustively researched by the foremost expert on Byars - Details the artist's formative years - Illuminates the influences on this enigmatic modern artist - A biographical prequel to the author's lauded James Lee Byars: Days in Japan Decades after the death of the artist and aesthetic heretic James Lee Byars, episodes from his life have taken on the aura of urban legend. Born and raised in Detroit, he spent much of his adult life outside the United States. His first sojourn overseas was to Japan in 1958 at age twenty-six, and over the next ten years he traveled between Japan and the U.S. seven times. Later in life he spent several years in Europe, and died in Cairo in 1997. Curator and art historian Sakagami Shinobu here traces Byars's formative years in Detroit, a period about which virtually nothing has been published. Extensive interviews with those who knew him do much to clarify facts about his early growth as an artist and to provide a picture of the environment that nurtured it. This companion book to the author's lauded James Lee Byars: Days in Japan illuminates a similarly crucial yet overlooked period in the artist's development.
