Tino Sehgal is thought of as a choreographer who makes dance for the museum setting.
11 Facts About Tino Sehgal
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Tino Sehgal danced in the work of French experimental choreographers Jerome Bel and Xavier Le Roy.
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In 1999, Sehgal worked with the dance collective Les Ballets C de la B in Ghent, Belgium, and developed a piece entitled Twenty Minutes for the Twentieth Century, a 55-minute series of movements performed naked in twenty different dance styles, from Vaslav Nijinsky to George Balanchine to Merce Cunningham, and so forth.
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Tino Sehgal's materials are situations animated through references to art history and the participation of interpreters who use voice, reenactment, language, movement, dramaturgy and interaction to shape the experiences of visitors.
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Tino Sehgal resists the production of physical objects in an extension of the logics of western conceptual art and as a part of his commitment to an ecological politics of production.
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ForThis situation, Tino Sehgal engaged the participation of a group of intellectuals.
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For documenta XIII Tino Sehgal orchestrated This variation, an immersive piece, developed with a group of dancers and the composer Ari Benjamin Meyers.
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The work places viewers in a nearly dark gallery among the performers who dance and sing a cappella arrangements and improvisations of electronic music, using a score created by Tino Sehgal to create an evolving dramaturgy and "an electrifying aural-spatial experience of pure, unencumbered imagination in action".
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In 2012, Tino Sehgal was the 13th artist commissioned by the Tate Modern for its annual Unilever series.
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Tino Sehgal is the youngest artist to have represented Germany at the Venice Biennale.
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Tino Sehgal had solo exhibitions at a number of important venues including Centro Botin, Santander, Spain ; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand ; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt ; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Kunstverein Hamburg, Serralves Foundation, Porto ; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes.