The ‘Methodical Romance’ of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Set Sail and Never Returned


Bas Jan Ader (Dutch, 19421975), Fall 2, Amsterdam, 1970 Funny pictures, Ader, Perfectly timed

An inadequate boat, capsized off the coast of Ireland. A body lost at sea. For some, this life is not creeping, but rushing forward to its doomed conclusion. Most people turn away, unable to face.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bas Jan Ader, 1942 - 1975 Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before..


Tangential Bas Jan Ader

In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance. Tiernan Morgan November 30,.


Dutch photographer Bas Jan Ader channels Mondrian in new exhibition 1854 Photography

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (born 19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He had lived in Los Angeles, California for the last twelve years of his life. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances.


In Search of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Disappeared at Sea

Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles (1965) and his Master's of Fine Arts at the Claremont Graduate School and University Center, Claremont CA (1967). The. Read more See all past shows and fair booths Critically acclaimed Solo show at 2 major institutions


Bas Jan Ader, 1967. Implosion The Artist Contemplating the Forces of Nature. Art contemporain

Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader's work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg.Dumbadze looks closely at Ader's engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by.


Bas Jan Ader Flower Arranging as the Master Art

Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles (1965) and his Master's of Fine Arts at the Claremont Graduate School and University Center, Claremont CA (1967).


Bas Jan Ader’s Fateful, Final Work Left Him Lost at Sea Artsy

Bas Jan Ader was one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation, his work fusing European and Californian conceptual positions. Working in film, photography, installation and performance, his influence continues to be felt today.


Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee News

Elusive and unavailable, quicksilver and gone. Still, as much as it's the myth that has engaged a following, Bas Jan Ader did produce work of real and lasting significance, resonant of the period and place in which it was made as well as the biography that drove it and was its source.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan Ader was born into the drama of World War II in 1942. His father, a minister, helped Jews escape the Holocaust by sheltering them in the Ader home in the Dutch countryside along the German border. In 1944, the Nazis arrested the elder Ader and then killed him, along with six other prisoners, by firing squad.


Bas Jan Ader's Please Don't Leave Me & In Search of the Miraculous Bas Jan Ader Discovery File

The performer and video artist Bas Jan Ader in this sense has reached the limits of creative despair, turning his whole life into an eccentric, but from this no less tragic artistic act. Born in 1942 in the Netherlands, the artist lived most of his life in sunny California, which was only a catalyst for his chronic sadness.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Metro Pictures

Bas Jan Ader, Broken fall (organic), Amsterdamse Bos, Holland, 1971/1994. Silver gelatin print, 18 x 25 inches. Copyright the Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2016 / The Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles and Simon Lee Gallery, London.


Bas Jan Ader Art Works, Films and Installations in New York Widewalls

Tragedy surrounded both the beginning and the end of Bas Jan Ader's (1942-1975) short life. Bastiaan Johan Christiian, or Bas Jan, was born in Wishoten, Holland to Bastiaan Jan Ader and his wife Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels. A minister in the Dutch Reformed church, Ader's father was caught harboring Jewish refugees in 1944 and killed by.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Metro Pictures

Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before.


Bas Jan Ader Artists Meliksetian Briggs

Bas Jan Ader has 15 works online. There are 28,602 photographs online. Installation views We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968-1989. Jul 15-Oct 26, 2009. Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960.


Bas Jan Ader's Please Don't Leave Me & In Search of the Miraculous Bas Jan Ader Discovery File

Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader's work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader's engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by.

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