Tom Sachs

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Tom Sachs is an artist American plastics technician born with New York in 1966. He lives and works in New York. The denunciation of through american company, the consumer society, the weight of the companies, the American cultural imperialism, the technological advancement, the identity and the relationship between survival and destruction are in the middle of its work, which generally proceeds by the assembly of objects of the daily newspaper and the diverted use of marks and immediately recognizable logos.

Biography

Tom Sachs passes his childhood in the Connecticut then it off obtains in 1989 a Bachelor Arts of Bennington College of Bennington (Vermont), before studying architecture with London. When it returns to the the United States, it launches out in a career of plastics technician.

In 1994, it creates for the windows of the department store of Barneys luxury in New York a scene of Christmas entitled Hello Kitty Nativity , in which the Virgin Mary is replaced by Hello Kitty equipped in Chanel and Nike. This work arouses a great interest and testifies from the start of the searchs for Sachs on the consumerism, the marks and the fetichisation of the products.

In 1997, wanting to show that “all the products are equal”, it creates Allied Cultural Prosthetics and starts to use immediately recognizable logos and other elements of the principal marks of luxury and other marks. He imagines for example a Tronçonneuse or a siglées Guillotine Chanel or toilets Prada .

He reaches the celebrity in 1999 with an exposure to the Gallery Mary Boone of Manhattan, which is worth with the galerist to be stopped for traffic of weapons: the plastics technician shows carved counterparts of revolvers and guns accompanied by ammunition of 9 mm, real, that the visitors can carry like a memory in a small orange package.

With the variation of the tendencies of the contemporary art, Tom Sachs worked out his own plastic language which is interested mainly in the function, the shape and the gasoline of the daily objects that it assembles, dissects, rebuilds and adapts himself while manufacturing some thoroughly and with the hand of the counterparts.

Thus, in its table Raytheon , it is restricted to reproduce with large scales and to frame the objectives of the company of defense Raytheon , one of the first world producers of missiles: “vision, strategy, objectives”. “The business of Raytheon, comments on it, it is the destruction of the human beings and intolerance, like was already Shoah. Publicity passes in addition to this reality, strikes us that it is necessary to buy the product and that then all will go for best, but she does not speak to us about cause and effects. ”

Principal personal exposures

  • 1993 :
    • Watch Me Work , Farming Allied Prosthetics, New York
    • ICFF , Jacob Javitz Center, New York

  • 1994 :

    • Window of Whitney Museum off American Art, New York

  • 1995 :

    • Farming Prosthetics , Morris-Healy Gallery, New York

  • 1998 :

    • Creativity is the Enemy , Thomas Healy Gallery, New York

  • 1999 :

    • High Do-it-yourself , Mary Boone Gallery, New York
    • W.W.J.B.D. and other Smash Hits , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    • Stairmaster , Mont Blanc Factory, Hamburg
    • Burn Baby Burn , Mont Blanc Shop, New York
    • Creativity is the Enemy , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    • SONY Outsider , SITE Health Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    • Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

  • 2000 :

    • Defender , Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
    • Test Modulates Five (Urinal) , Tomiyo Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

  • 2001 :

    • White , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    • Lamps, Bitch Lounge & Quarter Screws , A/D Gallery, New York

  • 2002 :

    • Nutsy' S , The Bohen Foundation, New York

  • 2003 :

    • Holiday Spectacular , Printed Matter Inc., New York
    • New Paintings , Galleria Cardi, Milan
    • Nutsy' S , Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
    • Disaster , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

  • 2004 :

    • Connecticut , Sperone Westwater, New York

  • 2005 :

    • McDonalds , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
    • Vanity , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    • Dedicated to the Memory off Ben To pluck 1968-2004 , Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

  • 2006 :

    • Tom Sachs , Prada Foundation, Milan
    • Survey: America, Modernism, Fashion , Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo

  • 2007 :

    • Islandia , Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

References

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