David Lamelas
David Lamelas (12 December 1946, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist. A pioneer of conceptual art, he was involved in Argentina's avant-garde scene in the 1960s. Well known for his sculptures and films, Lamelas lives and works between Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Paris. His works focus on the viewer’s own perception and critically assess mechanisms of cultural production. Central to Lamelas’s oeuvre is the notion of time and what people make of it.
David Lamelas studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, where he met Lucio Fontana, Georges Vantongerloo and the Madi Group. He exhibited regularly at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, a non-profit private institution dedicated to Argentinian avant-garde art. Thanks to a British Council grant, in 1968 he travelled to London where he studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art. Ten years later he moved to Los Angeles and in 1988 to New York. During the nineties he lived between New York, Brussels and Berlin. Since 1999 he has lived between Los Angeles, Paris and New York.
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- David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own, eds. María José Herrera and Kristina Newhouse, Long Beach, CA: University Art Museum, California State University, with Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2017, 264 pp. With contributions by Alexander Alberro, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Valeria González, German Gullón, María José Herrera, Inés Katzenstein, Bartomeu Marí, Kristina Newhouse, Catha Paquette, Daniel R. Quiles, Joy Sleeman, and Ian White. Publisher.
- Life as Activity: David Lamelas, eds. David Lamelas and Harper Montgomery, Munich: Hirmer, 2022, 128 pp. Exh. cat. Contributions by T. Baldwin, E. Blechman, A. Chapman, H. Canonge, R. Christian, N. del Valle, K. Geraghty, N. Kaack, M. Mudd-Kelly, D. Notine, P. Solimano, M. Weiderspon. Publisher.
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