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R A K E R M A N

London,

Born London 1949.Traveled, collected, and used drawings, to record positions, and rearranged object...

About the artist

R A K E R M A N

Joined In 2010

(79 Followers)

About the artist

R A K E R M A N

Joined In 2010

(79 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION

Born London 1949.Traveled, collected, and used drawings, to record positions, and rearranged objects in urban and world landscape locations from 1972-2004.Began to develop the aesthetic and conceptual premise that became The Visible and Invisible Projects, in 1990. Opened first London studio 1991. Produced "Facing North", a series of glue paintings, and retrieved 4 out of the original 10 paintings left at their north facing sites a year later from Cornwall, Surrey, Harrow-on-the-Hill and Ealing, the other 6 having been taken, lost or decomposed.Closed studio in 1994, and until 2004 undertook the tasks, journeys and works that became the Visible and Invisible Projects. When they began, the Invisible Projects were only concerned with personal experiences.Many of them could only be witnessed during the actual act of doing a particular task, and as there was often nothing to see, only rakerman knew when he had achieved the objective he had assigned himself. This objective evolved into the making of a work of Art that might not be possible to see, but nevertheless existed. However, as these works became more complex, it was noticeable that some of them were ceasing to be strictly invisible, and were actually producing a lot of extre...

Educated at Ravensbourne College of Art.Some Publications, Awards and Exhibitions include:Winner of the The BBC Design Award 1994 and D&AD Silver 1991for the Friends of the Earth Acid Rain Campaign (film / poster). This work is in the V&A permanent collection. The V&A Environmental Art Exhibition.The BBC Design Awards Exhibition 1994.The D&AD Annual Exhibitions 1991-96-97.Rewind: 40 years Best of Design and Advertising, by Jeremy Myerson and Graham Vickers. Phaidon.The D&AD Commercials Book and D&AD Award Annuals 1991-96-97. Graphic Agitation. Social and Political Graphics since the 60s by Liz McQuiston. Phaidon.Rewind The V&A Celebration of D&AD Exhibition.2002.2a London "Open 2000".2a London "marks-stains-tracks and jottings". Summer 2002.2a London "Large Drawings". December 2002- January 2003.2a London "Tablets" and "This gold is wrong". Autumn and Spring 2004.,

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