Maria Nordman

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Maria Nordman
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Born1943 (age 8081)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California Los Angeles
Known forSculpture
Notable workFilmroom: Smoke (1967–Present), Saddleback Mountain (1973), Tjoba (1981-82), De Civitate (1997)
Movement Conceptual Art

Maria Nordman is a German-American sculptor and conceptual artist. She is known for creating the contexts of FILM ROOMS starting in 1967: FILM ROOM EAT 1967-PRESENT and FILM ROOM EXHALE 1967- PRESENT. These two works are the fulcrum of other works that follow, of other works that follow, enabling new considerations of rooms as sculpture. Her works in film, still photography, and sculpture variously connect to writing, musical projects, architecture, public space, and performance.

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Life and work

Maria Nordman studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (1961–67), where she received her MA. There she met Josef von Sternberg who at the time was teaching Film Directing at UCLA. She also studied Cinematography with Jean-Claude Lubtchansky who at the time worked with Jean-Luc Godard. The production of new ways of working with film, with the actors, the viewers and the proscenium itself is seen from Nordman's earliest works.

They further connect with her architectural projects, the musical composition and performances directly on city streets and neighbourhoods with the chance encounters with passers-by. [1] Parks built by Nordman could function as living places; on the other hand they may have to do only with the direct passage of the sun. Experienced in city streets and parks, her work process includes three realizations at the Venice Biennial and as well three works in Kassel, part of Documenta.

Exhibitions

From 1967 to 1969 Nordman created film environments and laser projections. Since 1970 she has been designing places that achieve complex aesthetic effects with minimal means (such as sunlight, colour, air, water and sound). Man becomes part of these spaces. Nordman has exhibited at Documenta in Germany in 1977, 1982 and 1987. [2] She has exhibited in Italy [3] and held her first Berlin solo show in 2013. [4] Her work has been shown internationally at such institutions as the Stedelijk Museum, Belgium (2013), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California (2011), the Museu Serralves, Portugal (2007), the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (1997), and Dia Art Foundation, New York (1991). Her work has been included in group shows at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2011), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006), and MoMA PS1, New York (1999). [5]

Collections

Nordman's work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles [6] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [7] in the United States, and several Fracs in France. [8]

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