Artist Statement
Andrea Robbins and I are a married couple who met in college in 1984. The primary focus of our work is, what we call, the transportation of place — situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere, not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism, and mass-communication. Whether the subject is Germany in Africa, Germans dressing as Native Americans, American towns dressed as Germany, New York in Las Vegas, New York in Cuba, or Cuba in exile, our interest tends to be a place out of place (or the appearance of being out of place) with its various causes and consequences.
Max Becher
Born: 1964, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education:
1989 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MFA
1986 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, BFA
Professor at Cooper Union 1997-2002, University of Florida 2002-2008
Currently resides in New York City.
Represented by Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY and Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
Max Becher collaborates with Andrea Robbins
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