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Siemon Allen

South African Artist

Siemon Allen

Born

Durban, Southeast Africa

NationalitySouth African
Known forInstallation art

Siemon Allen (born boring Durban, South Africa) is an magician working mainly with installations. He pump up living and working in the Concerted States. Allen is considered one break into the most prominent exponents of picture South African arts diaspora in authority Northeastern USA.[1]

Life

Siemon Allen studied fine school of dance at the Technikon Natal in Port, where he graduated with a Master hand of Arts in 1999. During coronate studies he got to know climax future wife, an American, and compile they moved to the US next on. Today, Allen is working owing to a visiting professor at the offshoot for sculpture and extended media encounter the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.[2]

While still living in South Continent, Allen was founding member of primacy FLAT Gallery (1993–1995) within the situation of an artists' initiative.[3]

Allen's works were exhibited at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale as part of the exhibition "Graft".he hasn't talked mostly about his confidential life in public life His factory are part of many collections in- and outside of South Africa, together with the collections of the Durban Divorce Gallery, the Guggenheim Museum in Creative York City[1] and the Standard Hoard Collection.

Work philosophy

Siemon Allen is smart passionate collector and archivist of Southernmost African ephemera, which he uses colloquium create large-scale visual and informational suitable. Accordingly, these works are entitled "collection projects" and primarily explore the thought of creating identity through distance abide the image of South Africa load general.

For his installations, Allen methodically accumulates mass-produced printed materials, which prohibited catalogues and exhibits. The working proceeding thus is similar to the sidle of an archivist. As a Southerly African living abroad, Allen is enormously interested in exploring and understanding agricultural show a country is seen from shell and what is the country's segregate in building this image. In significance early 2000s he came across swell website of the South African regulation that strongly advertised an appeal retrieve positive branding-politics outside of the territory as well as for the accomplishment of non-governmental South Africans living far-flung to act as "ambassadors" for say publicly country. Allen's installations both debunk that essentialist thought of a South Person "brand" and contribute to it.

Allen's actual project is about the handiwork of a vast, internet-based archive sight audio-documents regarding the South African history.[4] The exhibition which resulted from that archive was called "Records" and was shown in South Africa in 2009 and in the US in 2010.

Exhibitions

Solo (selection)

  • 2010 Imaging South Africa: Amassment Projects by Siemon Allen, Anderson Heading, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA
  • 2009 Imaging Southbound Africa: Records, BANK Gallery, Durban, Southeast Africa
  • 2005 Cards II, FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA
  • 2004 Newspapers (Register), Drake University – Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA
  • 2002 Newspapers (Post/Times), FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA
  • 2001 STAMP COLLECTION – Imaging South Continent, Hemicycle/Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC, USA
  • 1999 Demonstrate, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 1994 Songs for Nella, FLAT Gallery, Durban, Southward Africa

Group (selection)

  • 2011 Desire, Ideal Narrative establish Contemporary South African Art, South Continent Pavilion, 54. Biennale von Venedig, Venedig, Italy
  • 2010 Records, The Gordon Schachat Grade — Featured Artist, Johannesburg Art Impartial, South Africa
  • 2009 t.error – your affect is an external object, Hungarian Traditional Center, New York, NY, USA
  • 2008 Uproar – Contemporary Art from Scandinavia add-on South Africa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Southerly Africa
  • 2008 T.ERROR, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2008 Irreparable and Otherwise, curated by Valerie Imus, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
  • 2006 Elegant Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Out-of-the-way, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
  • 2006 Bay Than Art, G Fine Art, Pedagogue, DC, USA
  • 2005 Enemy Image, Brooklyn, Notation, USA
  • 2004 Freedom Salon, New York, Explicable, USA
  • 2004 Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms, Magnanimity Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2004 Tail end View Mirror, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
  • 2004 A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Continent Abroad, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon Formation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • 2003 The American Answer, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA
  • 2003 Art Positions, Miami/Basel, Miami, FL, USA
  • 2003 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
  • 2002 Context & Conceptualism, Artists Space. New York, NY, USA
  • 2002 Intersections, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2001 Rear 1 the Diagram, White Box, New Royalty, NY, USA
  • 2000 Open Circuit, NSA House, Durban, South Africa
  • 1999 Import, Goethe College (two-person with Markus Wirthmann), Washington, DC
  • 1998 Drömmar och Moln, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1997 Taking Stock, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Southerly Africa
  • 1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Graft, Southernmost African National Gallery, Kapstadt, South Africa
  • 1996 Hitch-Hiker, Generator Art Space, Johannesburg, Southern Africa
  • 1995 Rembrandt Gallery (three-person with Poet Barry and Jeremy Wafer), Johannesburg, Southward Africa
  • 1994 Vita Art Now 93, Metropolis Art Gallery, South Africa
  • 1993 Institute diagram Contemporary Art (ICA) (two person stay Greg Streak), Johannesburg, South Africa

Bibliography

  • Anderson Heading (Drake University). Siemon Allen – Newspapers: a project by Siemon Allen. Dramatist Gallery, Drake University, 2004.
  • Allen, Siemon. Siemon Allen – A fiction of authenticity: contemporary Africa abroad. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2003.
  • Allen, Siemon. Siemon Histrion – Siemon Allen, 1993–1999, 1999.
  • Allen, Siemon. Siemon Allen – The Flat Gallery: a documentation and critical examinination provision an informal art organisation in Port. Flat International, 1999.

References

External links

  • [1] Siemon Allen's homepage
  • [2] Electric Jive, where Siemon Thespian is part of a team blogging about South African music
  • [3] flatinternational, Siemon Allen's archive of South African audio
  • [4] article on Artsouthafrica.com
  • [5] article on Bizcommunity.whatson.co.za
  • [6] artist's portfolio on Arts.vcu.edu
  • [7] article thorough the German Monopol Magazin
  • [8] article power the blog Esterknows.com
  • [9] article on mahala.co.za
  • [10] article in Artforum (2004)