Dieter Froese
b. 1937, Sovetsk, Russia d. 2006, New York, US
Dieter Froese was a German installation and video artist associated with alternative art in New York City in the 1970s. Froese was, as his obituary in the New York Times states, ‘a leading early member of the artist-led independent gallery movement’, with notable shows including Ideas at the Idea Warehouse in 1975 and the first exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1) in 1976.
Listed here are two large format document-works by Froese in which the artist explores his practice. Both were presented at Agora Studios, Maastricht, in 1979, and are products of transatlantic artists’ networks focusing on avant-garde video art. Provenance: Agora Studios. For further discussion, see Boomgard and Rutten (eds.), The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970-1985, 2003.
Remember/Forget the IVth Symphony, 1978.
495 x 695mm. 2 photographs and a printed sheet mounted on off-white stock, with annotations in black ink.
Untitled (Video Performance Diagrams), 1979.
437 x 470mm (each). 10 black and white mimeograph prints, with silver gelatin contact prints mounted onto each. Each sheet is numbered from 1 to 10 in the top left corner of recto, and has a white sticker to lower left corner of verso.
These sheets were used by Froese to illustrate and elucidate the video performance events staged at various locations throughout the US in the mid-1970s. These events involved Kirsten Bates, Bill Beirne, Scott Billingsley, Glenn Entis, Dieter Froese, Kay Hines, Michael McClard and Willoughby Sharp. Together, the sheets offer an informative overview of the alternative art scene of the 1970s.
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