{"id":36830,"date":"2020-07-19T17:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=36830"},"modified":"2020-07-26T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:32:06","slug":"rip-keith-sonnier-july-31-1941-july-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/07\/19\/rip-keith-sonnier-july-31-1941-july-18-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Keith Sonnier &#8211; (July 31, 1941-July 18, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaaSonnier_Khalsa_2013ACA-e1595184184273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaaSonnier_Khalsa_2013ACA-e1595184184273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36831\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/keith-sonnier-obituary-1895785?\">Poet of Light &#038; Neon, Keith Sonnier <\/a> (Artnet obit) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe difference with Keith is that he has a willingness to expose himself to experimentation that a lot of his peers lacked,\u201d curator Jeffrey Grove, who worked on the artist\u2019s seminal show \u201cUntil Today\u201d at Parrish Museum, told Artnet News. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not a lack of rigor, that\u2019s a confidence\u2026 a kind of quirky confidence that allowed him the freedom to expose himself to nontraditional materials that a lot of artists of his generation weren\u2019t doing at the time.\u201d(via Artnet) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaaKeithSoToday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaaKeithSoToday-e1595184288386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"601\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/parrishart.org\/publications\/keith-sonnier-until-today\/\">Irish art org &#8211; Keith Sonnier Until Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithsonnier.net\/\">Keith Sonnier homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaainflatedKS-e1595204815381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaainflatedKS-e1595204815381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moussemagazine.it\/keith-sonnier-inflated-works-1965-1966-at-the-national-exemplar-new-york-2018\/\">Inflated Workes 195-66 at the National Exemplar NY<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<blockquote><p>Keith Sonnier (1941-2020, Mamou, Louisiana) was a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist.[1] Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and was been one of the most successful with this technique. Sonnier was a part of the Process Art Movement.(via wiki)  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/print\/196908\/keith-sonnier-36470\">Keith Sonnier &#8211; 1969, Artforum<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WAS BORN in Mamou, a French-and-English-speaking town in Louisiana. The unassimilated Frenchness of Sonnier\u2019s background\u2014he speaks with no Southern accent\u2014partly made for an unregretted childhood, and one which was open to the arts; at least it was not hostile to personal eccentricity. His father ran an hardware and electrical supply store. At 12 he drove. He went to Mamou High between 1955 and 1959. Nothing deeply disrupted this Southern rural picture except when, at 15, he had an inkling that \u201cthere had to be something else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview Keith Sonnier: Growing up in USA and living in New York\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_19exgD2_QM?list=PL7aICRs1veWep5i5-xg_j-WLzf0PC_6AN\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet of Light &#038; Neon, Keith Sonnier (Artnet obit) \u201cThe difference with Keith is that he has a willingness to expose himself to experimentation that a lot of his peers lacked,\u201d curator Jeffrey Grove, who worked on the artist\u2019s seminal show \u201cUntil Today\u201d at Parrish Museum, told Artnet News. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not a lack of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/07\/19\/rip-keith-sonnier-july-31-1941-july-18-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Keith Sonnier &#8211; (July 31, 1941-July 18, 2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}