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

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 - disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. [1] His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations, including Please Don't Leave Me (1969). 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..

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

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. 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 Dutch, 1942-1975 Works Exhibitions Publications Wikipedia entry Getty record Works 15 works online Image not available William Leavitt, Bas Jan Ader Landslide 1969 William Leavitt, Bas Jan Ader Landslide, no. 1 1969 William Leavitt, Bas Jan Ader Landslide, no. 2 1969 William Leavitt, Bas Jan Ader Landslide, no. 3 1969 William Leavitt, 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,.

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). 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. Viewers of Bas Jan Ader's 24-second 16mm film actually do. Present, too, is the same sense of dawning horror, as we see the artist on a chair straddling the roof of a suburban home, then falling. 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.

Tangential Bas Jan Ader

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. Anticipating Bas Jan Ader's first US retrospective, Bruce Hainley examines the Dutch-born Conceptualist's modest output and the cult that has grown up around the work since the artist disappeared at sea in 1975, while attempting to complete part two of his performative triptych In Search of the Miraculous. 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 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 Artists Meliksetian Briggs

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, 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.