OM.2023.042 - Mark Bloch - USA
BIO
Mark
Bloch, born to
American parents in Würzburg, West Germany, in 1956, grew up in Cleveland and
Akron, Ohio. Bloch attended Kent State University, where he was influenced by
two Jungians: Dr. Adrian DeWitt in Romance Languages and the Art School’s
Robert Culley. Bloch is a poet, conceptual artist, performance artist, visual
artist, archivist and writer whose work combines visuals, text, performance and
electronic media to explore ideas of long-distance communication, including
across time. He works in a variety of media, calling himself a
"pan-media" artist and conceptualizing this era as Panmodern. New
York University houses his archive.
ARTIST
STATEMENT
This Jungian
heptagon, suggestive of being a “wasted” kid, evolved out of the curator!s request for “child-friendly” art. It is a diagram of
my own childhood— stretching from my genetic code to high school graduation at
age 18, dissected into seven age groups charting my environmentally-influenced
development. Next I layered over that seven perceptions of time, beginning with
Instantaneanism, a little-known art movement first created in Francis Picabia’s
Dada magazine “391” and ending with a consideration of slow decay in Robert
Smithson-inspired “entropy.” Each division corresponds to one of seven acrylic
colors I literally "found” recently.
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