{"id":12205,"date":"2009-02-15T19:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2010-12-02T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T00:51:59","slug":"paul-thek-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=12205","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thek: Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12206\" title=\"paul thek\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/paul-thek-560x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/paul-thek-560x444.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/paul-thek.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective<\/em> is the first retrospective in the United States devoted to the legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). A sculptor, painter, and one of the first artists to create environments or installations, Thek came to recognition showing his sculpture in New York galleries in the 1960s. The first works exhibited, which he began making in 1964 and called \u201cmeat pieces\u201d as they were meant to resemble flesh, were encased in Plexiglas boxes that recall Minimal sculptures. At the end of the sixties, Thek left for Europe, where he created extraordinary environments, incorporating elements from art, literature, theater, and religion, often employing fragile and ephemeral substances, including wax and latex. After a decade, at the end of the seventies, Thek changed direction, moved back to New York, and turned to the making of small, sketch-like paintings on canvas, although he continued to create environments in key international exhibitions. With his frequent use of highly perishable materials, Thek accepted the ephemeral nature of his art works\u2014and was aware, as writer Gary Indiana has noted, of \u201ca sense of our own transience and that of everything around us.\u201d With loans of work never before seen in the US, this exhibition is intended to introduce Thek to a broader American audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/\" target=\"_self\">The Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a>, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, NYC, 212-570-3600, through Jan 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective is the first retrospective in the United States devoted to the legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). A sculptor, painter, and one of the first artists to create environments or installations, Thek came to recognition showing his sculpture in New York galleries in the 1960s. The first works exhibited, which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[463,462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12209,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}