Ger van elk biography of christopher

Pioneering Dutch Conceptual artist Ger van Elk died on Sunday at 73. Born in Amsterdam in 1941, van Elk gained international note in the 1960s through his inclusion in seminal group exhibitions such as “Op Losse Schroeven” at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1969) and Harald Szeemann’s “When Attitudes Become Form” at the Kunsthaus Bern (1969).

Both were early exhibitions of Conceptual art.

“No one is more adept at calling attention to the way art calls attention to itself,” Susan Tallman wrote of van Elk in A.i.A. in 2009.

The advent of Fluxus and Happenings made Amsterdam a breeding ground of avant-garde activity during this time.

Van Elk was associated with the influential Amsterdam gallery Art & Project, founded in 1968, alongside contemporaries like Gilbert & George, Jan Dibbets, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Allen Ruppersberg. Even so, the artist spent many of his most prolific years in New York and