Beschreibung:

Anne Bean Drawn, Quartered & Hung, 2020 Pencil on Paper Signed verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) (4) Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1950, she moved to England in 1969 after an initial art education at the University of Cape Town, and attended Reading University, graduating in 1973. Her wide-ranging practice encompasses slide projections, drawing, photography, video and sound, with materials such as fire and pyrotechnics to weather balloons and wind to steam and honey: "The art of Anne Bean makes strange our sense of time, memory, language, the body, and identity, particularly through solo and collaborative performances along a vital continuum between art and life." In a recently launched monograph on her work, Self Etc., the writer Dominic Johnson says: 'Anne Bean is a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. The art of Anne Bean makes strange our sense of time, memory, language, the body, and identity, particularly through solo and collaborative performances along a vital continuum between art and life.'