Chris Burden is an artist living and working in LA, California.
He pioneered (championed?) performance art during the 70’s in LA.
He took things to extremes using his body as the art object.
He had himself shot for one unforgettable piece, called “shoot”. Pictured here.
He crawled chest first through broken glass on TV for a 20 second commercial spot he bought. He shot a pistol at a 747 in flight.
All this and more, way before “Jackass”. Not that Jackass is on the art tip, but their extremist approach and use/abuse of their bodies as an object to make comedy is similar to Burden’s approach to making art.
Really dope shit if you take time to look at his work.
He’s also created a lot of really interesting and influential sculpture. Maybe I’ll post some later.
Check him out on the all knowing internet or check out his recently released book, appropriately named “Chris Burden”
“747”
Posted by KR on October 03, 2007 at 05:46 PM
