Bas Jan Ader
The short career of Bas Jan Ader, a legendary figure of the 1970s, was marked by a few works, photographs and filmed performances, in which he is both the subject and an object of protocols that examine the physical characteristics of the world – weight – as well as emotions – sadness – in an aesthetic similar to early video art.
Repeated falls, tears and gestures acquire, through tiny actions, an existential value. In 1975 the artist died crossing the Atlantic between the United States and Britain, while undertaking his last performance piece entitled In Search of the Miraculous.
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