David Lamelas
Born in Buenos Aires, 1946
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires
Bibliography
Texts and projects by David Lamelas
David Lamelas, “David Lamelas: A Pioneer of Cenceptual Art” conducted by Todd Holmes and Glenn Phillips in 2017, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, under the auspices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, 2017
Honoré, Vincent and Manuela Ribadeneira. David Lamelas. Drawing Room Confessions, 4. London: Drawing Room Confessions, 2011
David Lamelas, Publication, Kunstverein Munchen and Witte de With, Rotterdam, Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd, 1997 (reprint)
Artinf, Cover / artist’s page, N. 95, Buenos Aires Spring 1996
Character Appropriation by David Lamelas “Rock Star” London, 1974, Etantdonne, N. 5, Brussels, 1995
The Desert People, Interfunktionen, N. 12, Cologne, 1975, p. 50-83
Projekt 74: Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Cologne, p. 370-371
Process of Working, Beyond Painting and Sculpture. Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal College of Art, London 1973, p. 20. / Also published in: David Lamelas and Lynda Morris, David Lamelas: An Introduction to the Structural Development, Studio International, N. 187, London, January 1974, p. 44-45
La lecture d’un film, Art Press, no.3, Paris, March-April 1973, p.16
Le temps comme activité, VH 101, N. 1, Zürich, Spring 1970, p. 89-94
Publication, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London, 1970
David Lamelas and Raúl Escari, Self-Awareness, Art and Artists, N. 20, London, July 1969, p. 18-21
Solo exhibition catalogues
Montgomery, Harper (ed.), Life as Activity: David Lamelas, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (US), published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich (DE), 2021
Acevedo-Yates, Carla (ed.): David Lamelas: Fiction of a Production. Michigan: MSU Broad, 2018
David Lamelas. A Life of Their Own, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, 2017
Lamelas, David: David Lamelas – In Place of Film. Granada: Centro José Guerrero, 2012
Dietrich Nikola, Jacob Lillemose, Kassandra Nakas (eds.): Above the Fold – Ayse Ermen, Ceal Floyer, David Lamelas. Ostfildern: Hatje-Cantz Verlag, 2008
Buchloh, Benjamin H. and Inès Katzenstein, David Lamelas: Estranjero, Foreigner, Etranger, Ausländer. México City: Museo Tamayo, 2006
Morris, Lynda and Eric de Bruyn (eds.): Secession: David Lamelas. Vienna: Secession, 2006
Heike Ander, Anke Bangma and Barbera van Kooij (eds.): A New Refutation of Time, Richter Verlag, Dusseldorf, Kunstverein München, Munich and Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1997
Frederick Ted Castle, Lavandula, Labiatae, Lamiales, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1991
Jorge Glusberg, Fifteen Years, Centro de Arte y Communicación, Buenos Aires, 1978
Group exhibition catalogues
Fiontan Moran and Simon Baker (eds). Performing for the Camera. Edited by. London: Tate Publishing, 2016.
Fogle, Douglas. The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2013, p.16. Images pp. 158-159.
Alfrey, Nicholas et al. Uncommon Ground Land Art in Britain 1966-1979. London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2013.
Formes brèves, autres, 25. (audio catalogue) Metz: FRAC Lorraine, 2012.
Bal-Blanc, Pierre and others (eds.). Ver Sacrum – The Death of the Audience. Vienna: Secession, 2011.
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle and Paul Schimmel. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. New York: Prestel, 2011.
Alonso, Rodrigo (ed.). Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965-1975. Buenos Aires: Fundacion PROA, 2011.
29th Biennial of Sao Paulo Catalogue, 2010, p.288-289
Chema González, 100 Video Artists, Exit Publication, Madrid, 2010, p. 258-261
Nicolas Alfrey and Joy Sleeman (eds.), Earth-Moon-Earth, Djanogly Art gallery, Nottingham, 2009
Peter Eleey (ed.), The Quick and The Dead (cat.), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2009.
Inaki Martinez Antelo, David Lamelas, p.148-155, in: Agar ledo Arias & Maria Urrutia Balino (ed.), Tempo ao Temp / Taking Time, Fundacion Marco, Vigo, 2008.
Sabine Folie (ed.), Un coup de Dés: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language (cat.), Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2008
Jacob Lillemose, Into Information. Space, Time, and Media in David Lamelas’s Early Installations, in: Nikola Dietrich (ed.), Above the Fold, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2008, p. 99-121 (cat.)
Benjamin Thorel, Telle est la Télé. L’Art Contemporain et la Télévision, Cercle d’Art, Paris, 2007
Anna Jiménez Jorquera and Ester Capdevilla (eds.), Um Teatro Sem Teatro, MACBA, Barcelona, 2007
Melanie Ohnemus (ed.), Secession. David Lamelas, Wien, 2006 (cat.)
Jesus Fuenmayor, Arte da América do sul Ponto de Viragem 1989, Museo Serralves, 2006
Lukasz Gorczysca, Michal Kaczynski, Villa Holiday Warsaw, Villa Warsaw, 2006, p. 62-63 & 65
Edelbert Köb, David Lamelas, Why Pictures Now, MUMOK, Vienna, 2006, p.118-121
Catherine Grenier, Los Angeles 1955-1985. Naissance d’une Capitale Artisique, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006, p. 264-265
Lynda Morris, David Lamelas. To Pour Milk Into a Glass, Primera generación Arte e imagen en movimiento, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, p. 256-259
Andrea Giunta, Listen, Here, Now! New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
Patricia Rizzo, Instituto Di Tella Experiencias ’68, PROA Fundacion, Buenos Aires, 1998 (cat.)
Menno Meeuwis, Zoersel ’96, Domein Kasteel van Halle, Zoersel, 1996, 40-45
Ann Goldstein, Lucy R. Lippard et al, Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965-1975, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995, p. 158-161
Yves Aupetitallot, Wide White Space 1966-1976. Behind the Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1994, p. 49, 52, 68, 98-99, 123, 125, 185, 208-209, 251-253, 264, 268, 272, 276, 285, 291, 306-307, 328, 334
The Belly of the Beast. Cutting Edge Media in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1994, p. 56
John Chandler, Franz W. Kaiser et al., Dialogues, Alighiero e Boetti, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, 1994, p. 197
Ernst van den Boogaard, Bernadette J. Bucher, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh et al., America. Bride of the Sun. 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries, Ministry of the Flemish Community, Antwerp and Imschoot, Ghent, 1992, p. 243-244
Christian Schlatter, Art conceptuel formes conceptuelles/Conceptual Art Conceptual Forms, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, 1990, p. 272-273
Melinda Wortz, Variations III. Emerging Artists in Southern California, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, 1987, p. 17-18
s.n., Video from Vancouver to San Diego, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985
Barbara Hendrick, Kathy Rae Huffman et al., Video: A Retrospective. Long Beach Museum of Art. 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, 1984, p. 45, 111, 113
William Anastasi, James Benning et al., Film as Installation, The Clocktower, New York, 1983
Southland Video Anthology II, part 5, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1978, p. 114-115
Dieter Ronte, Manfred Schneckenburger and Evelyn Weiss, Projekt 74: Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Cologne, 1974, p. 370-371
Michel Claura, Contemporanea, Incontri Internationali d’Arte, Rome, 1973, p. 229, 419
Richard Cork, Beyond Painting and Sculpture, Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal College of Art, London, 1973, p. 19-22
Lynn Lester Herschman and John Perreault, Artists Books, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, and University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley 1973, p. 55
s.n., Combattimento per un’immagine. Fotografi e Pittori, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, 1973
Michel Claura, Actualité d’un Bilan Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 1972, p. 76-78
Germano Celant, Book as Artwork 1960-1972, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London,1972, p. 41
Jean Christophe Amman, Ingolf Bauer et al., Documenta 5, documenta GmbH/C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Kassel, 1972, p. 17, 51-52
Hans Strelow, Prospect 71: Projection, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1971
s.n., In Another Moment, Galerya Studentski Kulturni Centar, Belgrade, 1971
Catherine Millet, Alfred Pacquement et al., Septième Biennale de Paris, Association Française d’Action Artistique and Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, 1971, p. 171
Jorge Glusberg, Arte de sistemas, Centro de Arte y Communicación and el Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1971
John L. Tancock. Multiples, The First Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1971
Kynaston L. McShine, Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970, p.195
s.n., 3e Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, Artistes et découvreurs de notre temps, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1970, p. 211, 213, 218-219
Michel Claura, 18 Paris IV. 70. Michel Claura, Paris, 1970, p. 15-20
Sol Lewitt and Rolf Wedewer, Konzeption-Conception, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen - Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 1970
Prospect 69, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1969
s.n., Socha Pieštanských Parkov ‘69’/ Objects. Sculpture in the Parks of Pieštany ‘69’ (International Exhibition of Plastic Oeuvres, Sculptures, Kúpel’ný ostrov, Pieštany, 1969, p. 38-39
Basilio Uribe, Materiales, nuevas técnicas, nuevas expresiones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1968, p. 41
s.n., La XXXIV Biennale Prospect 68, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1968
G.A. Dell’Acque, Frederico Brook et al., di Venezia, Alfieri-Edizione d’Arte, Venice, 1968, p. 45-47
Enrique Oteiza, Beyond Geometry. An Extension of Visual-Artistic Language in Our Time, Art Gallery, Center for Inter American Relations, New York, 1968
Otto Hahn and Jorge Glusberg, Estructuras primarias II, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1967
Jorge Romero Brest, Más allá de la geometría. Extensión del lenguaje artístico-visual en nuestros días, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1967
Jorge Romero Brest, Experiencias Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1967
s.n. Premio Georges Braque, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires 1967
Hugo Parpagnoli, IX Bienal de San Pablo, Brasil. Argentina: Distéfano, Lamelas, Renart, Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, 1967
Hernán Lavalle Cobo, IX Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, San Paulo, 1967
Samuel F. Oliver, Plástica con plásticos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1966, p. 56-57
Germaine Derbecq, Premio Nacional, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1966, p. 26-27
André Coyné and Samuel F. Oliver, Premio Georges Braque, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1966
Articles and reviews
Mazagiedo, Elize; Vervoort, Stefaan. Letter, Heritage and Debt, Art Monthly, No. 445, Antwerp, April, 2021, p. 21
Fernando García, Alta Fidelidad. Rock de mujer: la venganza de Lady Gaga, La Nación, February 02, 2019
Scott Indrisek, David Lamelas Shows What Happens When an Artist Never Stops Moving, Artsy, September 24, 2018
John Quin, David Lamelas’s Works Have a Life of Their Own, Frieze, April 28, 2018
Liz Hirsch, David Lamelas, Artforum, January 3, 2018
Imelda Barnard, “I think of myself as a producer of ideas”, Apollo Magazine, September 2017
Drohojowska-Philp, David Lamelas in Three Shows, KCRW October 12, 2017
Campbell, David Lamelas, Artforum, September 25, 2017
Véronique Bergen, ‘Rebel Rebel : La Rencontre de L’art Contemporain et Du Rock.’, L’Art Meme, issue 17, 2016, p. 26–27
Lamelas, David. Questionaire: David Lamelas, Frieze Blog, February 26, 2016
Aoife Rosenmeyer, David Lamelas: Kunsthalle Basel, ArtReview, December 2014
EC Feiss, David Lamelas: Jan Mot, Brussels, Frieze, October 2014
Carolyn Kormann, What Does a Minute Feel Like?, The New Yorker, August 2014
Dessislava Dimova, David Lamelas’s “Mon Amour. Reading Films”, Art Agenda, July 04, 2014
Federico Florian, David Lamelas at Lia Rumma, Art in America, June/July 2014
JJ Charlesworth, Friends of London: Artists from Latin America in London from 196X/197X, Art Review, August 2013
Daniel R. Quiles, My Reference is Prejudiced: David Lamelas’s Publication, ART Margins, 2013, pp. 31-62
Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Quick and the Dead; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Artforum, november 2009, p. 218-219
Bianca Visser, El tiempo existe, Exit Express, N. 45, Verano 2009, p. 6-11
Domeniek Ruyters, Licht uit, Stem aan, Metropolis M, N. 2, 2009, p. 50-51
Sally O’Reilly, David Lamelas, Frieze, N. 111, November-December 2007, p. 194
Raimundas Malasauskas, Visiones Y Revelaciones, Farenheit, Mexico D.F., 20/10/07, p. 39-43
Martha Schwendener, David Lamelas. Maccarone, The New York Times, 22/06/07
Joseph Jacobs, Moving Image. When Video Was Young, Art in America, May 2007, p. 118-121
Barry Schwabsky, First Generation. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Art Forum, May 2007
Chus Martinez, David Lamelas. Office of Information about the Vietnam War at Three levels: the Visual Image, Text and Audio, 1968, Spike, Winter, Vienna and Berlin, 2006, p. 22
Christopher Bedfort, David Lamelas, Tema Celeste, N. 118, November-December 2006, p. 80
Geoffrey Garrison, Exhibition: programme, The Bulletin, October 12, N. 39, 2006
Holly Meyers, Around the Galleries. Viewing L.A., for a Limited Time, Los Angeles Times, 14/7/06
Ian White, On the Road, Frieze, N. 100, Jun.-Aug. 2006, p. 250-255
Gerrit Vermeiren, David Lamelas. Part 2, Hart, 20/4/2006, p. 22-23
Chuz Martinez and Stuart Comer, David Lamelas. A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, London – Los Angeles, Afterall, N. 11, 2005, p. 97-114
Louisa Buck, Outside Curators Buy for Tate at Frieze. Video, Installations, and Photos but No Paintings, The Art Newspaper/Frieze Art Fair Daily, 21 October 2005, p. 4
Claudia Niklas, Der Schmerzgrenzgänger, Süddeutsche Zeitung, N. 10, Munich, 14 January 1997, p.12
Silvia de Ambrosini, David Lamelas. La imagen no es el territorio / David Lamelas. Image Is No Longer a Territory, Artinf, N. 95, Buenos Aires, Spring 1996, p. 20-23
Marion Fricke, Roswitha Fricke and Seth Siegelaub (ed.), Le contexte de l’art/l’art du contexte, Art Press Spécial: 69/96, Avant-gardes et fin de siècle, N. 17 , Paris, 1996, p. 97-80
Godfrey Worsdale, Wide White Space, Art Monthly, N. 183, London, February 1995, p. 138-139
Giorgio Verzotti, David Lamelas - Fac-Simile, Artforum, New York, October 1993, p. 107
Ruben Wisotzki,. Lamentablemente el artista no sólo sueña. El artista David Lamelas estrenarà con árboles el Museo del Oeste, El Diario de Caracas, Caracas, 1 June 1993, p. 43
Emmanuela de Cecco,.David Lamelas - Fac Simile, Flash Art International, Milan, March 1993, p. 95
Paul Artur, Some Notes around a Film by David Lamelas, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts Journal, N.28, Los Angeles, September-October 1980, p. 71-81
Jorge Glusberg, La ruptura cultural, Revista Art Dimensión, N. 18, Buenos Aires, April-June 1979, p. 7-17
Aurora Floyd, What is Wrong with this Picture? Almost Everything: “The Desert People”, Spectrum, Buffalo, 2 October 1978
Jorge Glusberg, El espectáculo del mundo real, La Opinión Cultural, Buenos Aires, 19 March 1978, p. 6-8
Fred Dolan, New University, Irvine, 8 January 1977
Art-Rite, N.14, New York, Winter 1976-77, p. 30
Linda Gross, Experimental Films at the Haymarket, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, 20 August 1976, p. 17.
George Morris, California Dreaming: Movement and Freedom, Soho Weekly News, New York, 29 January 1976, p. 36
Rosetta Brooks, ICA New Gallery: David Lamelas, Studio International, N. 190, London, September-October 1975, p. 161-162
Libri, cataloghi & reviste. England, Flash Art, N. 54-55, Milan, May 1975, p. 17
Severo Sarduy, L’Effet: “ecran”, Art Press, N. 3, Paris, March-April 1975, p. 127-132
Marc Bourgeois, Tentoonstellingen: David Lamelas, De Nieuwe Gazet, Antwerp, 26 March 1975
LB/WS, Messages, Avalanche, N. 10, New York, December 1974, p.14
Lynda Morris and David Lamelas, David Lamelas: An Introduction to the Structural Development. Studio International, N. 187, London, January 1974, p. 44-45
s.n. Wide White Space: David Lamelas, Spectator, Brussels, 9 June 1973
Marc Bourgeois, David Lamelas, De Nieuwe Gazet, Antwerp, 4 June 1973
s.n., David Lamelas, Brussels Times, Brussels, 31 May 1973
Severo Sarduy, David Lamelas. l’Effet: “écran”, Art Press, N.3, Paris, March-April 1973, p. 14-15
Rosetta Brooks, A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Flash Art, Milan, February 1973, p. 6-7
Luciano Inga-Pin, Prospects, N. 2, Milan, June 1972
Richard Cork, UK Commentary, Studio International,), N. 183, London, March 1972, p. 121
Richard Cork, Video Tape for a New Vision, Evening Standard, London, 11 February 1972, p. 9
Marina Vaizey, At Nigel Greenwood Inc., Financial Times, London, 29 January 1972
Germano Celant, Le livre comme travail artistique 1960-1970, VH 101, Zürich, 1972, p. 23
Bellas Artes: David Lamelas, La Nación, Buenos Aires, 30 June 1971
Bengt Oldenburg, Otro argentino al tope, Analisis, N. 528, Buenos Aires, 27 April 1971, p. 53-54
Bernard Borgeaud, Paris, Arts Magazine, N. 45, New York, November 1970, p. 46-47
s.n. David Lamelas, VH 101, N. 3, Zürich, Autumn 1970, p. 30-31
Catherine Millet, Un art d’analyse: Kirili et Lamelas, Lettres Françaises, Paris, 27 May 1970, p. 29-30
Barbara Reise, Art et langage (verbal), L’Art Vivant, N. 29, Paris, April 1970
Alain Jouffroy, David Lamelas, Opus International, N. 17, Paris, April 1970, p. 17-19
s.n., Wide White Space: Time as Activity, De Nieuwe Gids, Brussels, 15 February1970
s.n., Tentoonstellingen, Het Volk, Antwerp, 3 February 1970
s.n., David Lamelas, De Nieuwe Gazet, Antwerp, 2 February 1970
Rene Denizot, Arrière et avant-garde d’aujourd’hui. “Prospect 69” à Düsseldorf, Lettres Françaises, Paris, 29 October 1969, p. 26-27
Raúl Escari and David Lamelas, Self-Awareness, Art and Artists, N. 20, London, July 1969, p. 18-21
Catherine Millet, l’Art conceptuel, Opus International, N. 15, Paris, 1969, p. 20-22
Alain Jouffroy, De lignano, Opus International, N. 8, Paris, 1969, p. 90
Premios con varaciones, Analísis, N. 393, Buenos Aires, 25 September 1968, p. 42, 47
Entregaronse los premios del concurso “Materiales, nuevas técnicas y expresión, La Prensa, Buenos Aires, 20 September 1968
Los premios sobre arte y materiales, La Nación, Buenos Aires,19 September 1968
Jorge Romero Brest, Buenos Aires, Art International, vol.7, N. 4, Paris, 20 April 1968, p. 60-61
San Pablo jalón de madurez del arte argentino. David Lamelas entre los diez premiados de la Bienal, N.342, Analísis, Buenos Aires, 2 October 1967, p. 42-44
San Pablo, la Bienal de Babel, Primera Plana, N. 248, Buenos Aires, 26 September 1967, p. 70-74
Dividen entre 10 artistas un premio en la Bienal paulista, La Prensa, Buenos Aires, 21 September 1967
Investigaciones visuales 1967, Analísis, N. 339, Buenos Aires, 11 September 1967, p. 42-45
Exposiciones - Ruido máximo y arte mínimo, Primera Plana, N. 227, Buenos Aires, 2 May 1967, p. 51-52
Tres en el sube y baja, Primera Plana, N. 214, Buenos Aires, 31 January 1967, p. 71
Books
Holger Steinemann and Ursula Diehr, David Lamelas. Limit of a Projection, Art Unlimited, Basel, 2007, p. 82-83
Lynda Morris, David Lamelas. To Pour Milk Into a Glass, Primera Generacion. Arte e Image, e, Movimiento (1963-1986), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2006, p. 256-259
Ricardo Nicolau, Fotografia na Arte. De Ferramenta a Paradigma, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Colecçao de Arte Contemporanea, Publico Serralves, Porto, 2006, p. 72-73
Armelle Leturcq, Franc Perrin, Pierre Bal-Blanc and Mathieu Marguerin, Blocnotes 16, Blocnotes, Paris, 1999, p. 50-57
Jorge Glusberg, A la nueva imagen, Ediciones Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1990, p. 289-296
Achile Bonito Oliva, Europe/America. The Different Avant-Gardes. Franco Maria Ricci Editore, Milan, 1976, p. 186
Lynda Morris and David Lamelas, Contemporary Artists (ed. Colin Naylor, Genesis P-Orridge). St. James Press, London and St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1975, p. 526-527
Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Praeger, New York, 1973, p. 186-191
Other Publications
Pierre Bal-Blanc and Nicolas Trembley, Films David Lamelas, CAC Bretigny, Brétigny and BDV (Bureau des Vidéos), Paris, 2004 (DVD with booklet)