Bas Jan Ader Dumbadze Alexander
Bas Jan Ader Dumbadze Alexander On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip…
Specifikacia Bas Jan Ader Dumbadze Alexander
Bas Jan Ader Dumbadze Alexander
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous.
Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Ader was never seen again. Considering the artist's legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader's tremendous relevance to contemporary art.
Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection,
Bas Jan Ader Dumbadze Alexander