COMPREHENSIVE CATALOGUE 
Peter Nadin
Peter Nadin |
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First Mark / El Primer Trazo Artists: Peter Nadin Authors: Rubén del Valle Lantaron, Pablo Armando Fernandez, Pamela Ruiz, Richard Milazzo, Andrew McCarron, Philip Larratt-Smith, Peter Nadin Format: 30 x 24 cm Pages: 256 Binding: cartonato Illustrations: 167 di cui 93 a colori Year: 2007 Edition: inglese / spagnolo ISBN 978-88-8158-649-3 |
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| Peter Nadin has not shown work since 1992, when he stopped showing in an attempt to “unlearn how to make art.” The past decade and a half has been marked by an intensively private artistic outpouring on the farm he owns with his wife in the Catskill Mountains. Old Field Farm accommodates 150 acres of forest, wild bee pasture, habitat for goats, chickens, hogs, and vegetable and fruit gardens. The paintings and sculptures included in this catalogue involve a process closely linked to the farm, its animals, its vegetation, and its environs. The tactile, olfactory, visual, and auditory experiences of the land move him to create marks on linen using materials from the farm: honey, wax, bee propolis, black walnut, elderberry, chicken eggs, and cashmere wool. His First Mark series is therefore analogous to medieval relics. The reliquary held a fragment of the saintly corpus, whereas the painting or icon was mimetic. The seventy-six paintings and sculptures featured in this book represent an artistic process nearly fifteen years in the making that returns art to the most basic impulse from which it first emerged. | |
Artist biography: Peter Nadin was born in 1954 in Bromborough in the North of England. Educated in England, he moved to New York City in 1976, since then he has lived and worked in New York City.
His artwork is in public and private collections in America and Europe. Public collections include Museum of Modern Art, New York, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rooseum, Stockholm, Le Nouveau Musee, Lyon and the Museum fur (Sub) Kultur, Berlin, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
He has written three books: Twelve Prints And Poems, Grenfell Press, New York, 1998; Tide of Tongues, Thea Westreich, New York, 1991; Still Life, Tanam Press, New York, 1983.
In 1989, he began working and painting on Old Field Farm in Greene County, New York. In 1999, with the assistance of Dr. John Nadin and Dr Michael Salcman he developed a course at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on the relationship between cognitive science and art, which he currently teaches. |
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