Artist
Patterson, Ben
Audio (5 work / s)
Code 0647 1/3 Unique
An Autobiography of Ben Patterson with knives
1995
Part of "Magic Room", No. 1288
1. Work
Installation of forty-six knives and hatchets
with words, photos and cards included in
plastic envelopes, each signed.
Grid: 180 x 120 cm.
2. Project
Three sheets with instructions for realizing the work.
3. Photographic documentation, Molvena, 1995, No. FXPH0753
Colored photos by L. Bonotto, various size.
Archived in "ring binder "Photo documentations"
The images of knives and hatchets are printed on two canvases and
used for realizing the work "An older man walking to work", No. 0658
work
project - page 1
project - page 2
project - page 3
photo
Grandparents, 2 cousins , sister and me 1948
My mother and me ca.1950
Me as Boy scout 1950
Camp Twin Echo Boy Scouts 1946-1952
My high school classmates 1952
Me as captain of Track Team 1952
I finish high school 1952
My mother 1953
My father 1953
My first orchestra contract 1954
Climbing Grossgrockner, Austria 1959
My first wife Ilse 1962
My son Ennis, born 1962
My daughter Barbro, born 1964
My son Tobias, born 1979
Five days in Delaware River with rubber boat 1980
After 100 mile bike in Adironack Mountains 1981
6 weeks in Patagonia 1983
Helena and me in Newfoundland 1984
Me and Roger in Newfoundland 1984
My third wife Helena ca.1985
My first in New York
Large work explains my Theory of humor
My second in New York
I try to stop the Gulf War
The big Pittsburgh show!
My first in Paris
Since 1992 I live in Wiesbaden Erbenheim
My first in Milano
My second in Köln
First performance in Seoul
First performance of Orpheus & Eurydice
My first in Mannheim
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