Death of American sculptor John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
New York, 22 December 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).
On 21 December, a great name in contemporary sculpture took his final breath in New York. Iconic artist, John Chamberlain died at the age of 84. For over 50 years, he challenged sculptural codes and conventions, including works made by car frameworks. He was often associated with Abstract Expressionism and its principles which he tried to reproduce into sculpture; according to some, he was close to ideas of Pop Art. However, Chamberlain did not criticize the American consumerism society, and particularly its car industry, instead, he used these “waste” objects as an infinite source of materials, he found them interesting by their diversity of forms and by the colour schemes they proposed.
Born in 1927 in Rochester (Indiana), Chamberlain studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at the Black Mountain College (North Carolina) after serving in the American Navy from 1943-1946. His first artistic search was influenced by David Smith, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning . From 1956, he moved to New York and started to experiment different ways with these unusual materials of metallic debris, which often came from car frameworks. Chamberlain found a quick success and his works were exhibited in New York, other American museums and galleries, and also abroad (Sao Paulo, Venice Biennale, etc.). Guggenheim, that hosted the artist’s first major retrospective in 1971, will honour his prolific career in February 2012. The long-planned exhibition will undoubtedly contain a new scope following this unfortunate event, however, it will now become a touching tribute in memory of John Chamberlain.
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