Mary Bauermeister, Core Member of the Fluxus Art Movement, Dies at 88
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- 03 Mar 2023
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Mary Bauermeister, an artist whose indefinable works involving glass orbs and shells made her an important member of the Fluxus movement, has died at 88. New York’s Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her passing in a press release on Thursday.
halley k harrisburg, a director at the gallery, said in a statement, “After a long and heroic battle with cancer, we have lost a legend and perhaps the funniest artist to grace the art world; Mary had the uncommon ability to make us laugh and ponder our existence at the same time. She never missed the opportunity to expound on the mystical, the spiritual, or the existential.”
Though she remains lesser known outside Germany, where she was born and based for much of her career, Bauermeister was at the core of a group of avant-garde artists working in the postwar era. Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and many others are known to have come into contact with her and her work at various points.
Many of those artists were members alongside her of a movement known as Fluxus, which was begun in the 1960s as a riposte to bourgeois aesthetics. Their works took the form of assemblages of everyday objects that were combined in ways that looked nothing like traditional painting and sculpture. Read More..
