JAMES LEE BYARS. IM FULL OF BYARS. Eine Hommage/A Homage

JAMES LEE BYARS (1932-1997)

James Lee Byars is one of the most unusual and colourful characters of the 20th century art world. Moving between America, Japan and Europe, the artist – and not least thanks to his friendship with curator Harald Szeemann – had a very special relationship to Bern: it was a place where he could withdraw, and where fantastic performances and exhibitions in private and public spaces took place.

Im full of Byars provides an insight into and an overview of the work of the artist who sought perfection in his performances, installations and sculptures, who equated the ephemeral and the immaterial with the material and the permanent and whose works have lost none of their enigmatic nature or poetry today.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Im full of Byars at Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, September 2008 – February 2009.

Forfattere: Matthias Frehner, Susanne Friedli, Nelly Jaggi, Thomas McEvilley, Viola Maria Michely, Marsha Miro. Nicola Müllerschön, Peter J. Schneemann & Michael Stanley