Une sélection par Luc Fayard des oeuvres de Nam June Paik exposées en 2013 au Smithsonian American Art Museum de Chicago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum - Chicago
Nam June Paik - 2013

2. Nam June Paik
Prepared Piano
1962-63, vintage piano
(Alzinger-Brice Co.)
prepared using various
materials,
Courtesy Vehbi Koç
Foundation, Istanbul, on loan
to the Neues Museum in
Nuremberg, © Nam June
Paik Estate. Photo by
Annette Kradisch © Neues
Museum, Nuremburg

3. Nam June Paik, Zen for TV - 1963/1976, manipulated television set; black and white, silent,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Byungseol and Dolores An, © Nam June Paik Estate

4. Nam June Paik
Zen for TV
1963/1982,
manipulated
television set; black
and white, silent,
Collection of Marcel
Odenbach, © Nam
June Paik Estate.
Photo by Lothar
Schnepf.

5. Nam June Paik
Random Access
(Schallplattenschaschlik),
1963/1979, record player
with lengthened axis,
records and moveable
pick-up arm, Courtesy
Vehbi Koç Foundation,
Istanbul, on loan to the
Neues Museum in
Nuremberg,
© Nam June Paik Estate.
Photo by Annette
Kradisch
© Neues Museum,
Nuremburg

6. Nam June Paik
Random Access
1963/2000, strips of audiotape, open-reel audio deck,
extended playback head, and speakers,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased
with funds contributed by the International Director’s
Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames,
Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris
Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie
Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane,
Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise
Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and
Elliot K. Wolk, 2001,
© Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Erika Barahona Ede
© The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

7. Nam June Paik
TV Clock
1963/1989, twenty-four fixed-image color television monitors mounted on twenty-
four pedestals; black and white and color, silent.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Grace
Jones Richardson Trust, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace, Leatrice and Eli Luria and the
Luria Foundation, Zora and Les Charles and the Cheeryble Foundation, Wendy and
Elliot Friedman, and Lord and Lady Ridley-Tree,
© Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Scott McClaine

8. Nam June Paik
Magnet TV
1965, television set and
magnet, black and white,
silent, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York;
purchase, with funds from
Dieter Rosenkranz,
© Nam June Paik Estate.
Photo by Robert E. Mates

9. Nam June Paik
TV Crown 1
1965/1998-99, manipulated television set with two audio generators, two amplifiers, and heat regulator; color, silent, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive
Committee. Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail
May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler,
Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, 2001, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo © The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

10. Nam June Paik
TV Chair
1968, closed-circuit video
installation with television and
chair; black and white, silent,
Nam June Paik Estate, © Nam
June Paik Estate

11. Nam June Paik, Untitled
from the portfolio The
New York Collection
for Stockholm, 1973,
serigraph on paper,
Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Gift of
the Woodward
Foundation
© Nam June Paik Estate

12. Nam June Paik
TV Cello
1971, video tubes,
television chassis, Plexiglas
boxes, electronics, wiring,
wood base, stool, fan,
photograph, Collection
Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, formerly the
collection of Otto Piene
and Elizabeth Goldring,
Massachusetts, T.B. Walker
Acquisition Fund, 1992
© Nam June Paik Estate

13. Nam June Paik, TV Garden,
1974/2000, single- channel video installation with color television monitors and live plants; color, sound, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds
contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos,
Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta
Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, and through prior gift of the Bohen Foundation, 2001, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Ellen Labenski
© The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

14. Nam June Paik
Whitney Buddha Complex: TV Buddha
1982, Buddha statuette, closed-circuit video, monitor and dirt; black and white, silent, Marieluise Hessel
Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson,
New York, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo ©1985 D. James Dee Smithsonian American Art Museum

15. Nam June Paik
Whitney Buddha Complex: TV Rodin
1982, bronze sculpture with TV Watchman playing broadcast television; black and white, silent, Marieluise Hessel
Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,
© Nam June Paik Estate. Photo by Chris Kendall

16. Nam June Paik
Whitney Buddha Complex: Stone Buddha/Burnt TV
1982, Buddha statuette and burned television monitor, Marieluise Hessel
Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo ©1985 D.
James Dee

17. Nam June Paik
Merce/Digital
1988 single- channel video
sculpture with vintage
television cabinets and
fifteen monitors; color,
silent, collection of
Roselyne Chroman Swig
© Nam June Paik Estate.
Image courtesy Nam June
Paik Estate

18. Nam June Paik
Megatron/Matrix
1995, eight- channel video installation with custom electronics; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth, Nelson C. White, and the
Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

19. Nam June Paik
Chinese Memory
2005, single- channel video
installation with 21"
television, television cabinet,
and antenna, with acrylic paint
and permanent oil-based
markers, stacked books,
Chinese scroll and
phonograph cover, color,
silent, Nam June Paik Estate,
© Nam June Paik Estate

20. Nam June Paik
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
(detail), 1995, fifty- one-channel video installation (including one closed- circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting,
steel and wood; color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, © Nam June Paik Estate

21. Nam June Paik
Opus Paintings
1975, thirty-two paintings, oil on canvas, Nam June Paik Estate, © Nam June Paik Estate

22. Nam June Paik
Untitled (Newspaper Drawing)
1990s, oil stick on printed
newsprint, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift to
the Nam June Paik Archive
from the Nam June Paik Estate,
© Nam June Paik Estate

23. Nam June Paik
Untitled (Newspaper Drawing)
1990s, oil stick on printed
newsprint, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift to
the Nam June Paik Archive from
the Nam June Paik Estate, ©
Nam June Paik Estate

24. Nam June Paik
Untitled (Newspaper Drawing)
1990s, oil stick on printed
newsprint, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift to
the Nam June Paik Archive from
the Nam June Paik Estate, ©
Nam June Paik Estate

25. Nam June Paik
Untitled (Newspaper Drawing)
1990s, oil stick on printed
newsprint, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Gift to
the Nam June Paik Archive from
the Nam June Paik Estate, ©
Nam June Paik Estate

26. Nam June Paik
Untitled (Robot)
[PaikBot]
1992, single-channel video
in robot-shaped
assemblage of televisions,
radio- and stereo-system
parts, and metal
hardware, with additions
in paint; color, silent,
Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Gift to the Nam
June Paik Archive from
the Nam June Paik Estate,
© Nam June Paik Estate

27. Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

28. Objects from the Nam
June Paik Archive,
Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Gift to
the Nam June Paik
Archive from the Nam
June Paik

29. Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

30. Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

31. Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

32. Objects from the Nam June Paik Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik

33. Selected objects from the Nam June Paik Archive on display in the 2012 exhibition Nam June Paik: Global Visionary.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

34. Nam June Paik
sitting in TV Chair,
1968/1976, at Nam
June Paik Werke,
1946-76: Musik,
Fluxus, Video,
̈
Kolnischer
Kunstverein,
Cologne, 1976.
Photo by Friedrich
Rosenstiel ©
Friedrich Rosenstiel

35. Nam June Paik in his video-editing studio in his home on Mercer Street, New York, 1999.
Photo by David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York