Anton Perich
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Anton Perich is an American Filmmaker, photographer and video artist, born in Dubrovnik
(Croatia
) in 1945. He lives and works in New York since 1970.
) : (Isidore Isou
, Maurice Lemaître
), but also with French film underground milieu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder
, Raphaël Bassan
, Slobodan Pajic
, Pierre Clémenti
). For that period, he changed his name and became Antoine Perich, because Anton was not familiar a name in France. He was among the first activists to present, every week, programs of avant-garde and underground films in the American Center in Paris.
He moved to New York in 1970, became friends with Andy Warhol
and contributed as a photographer to Warhol’s Interview
.
He also worked as a busboy at the legendary Max's Kansas City
, where he photographed the scene as an ongoing art performance every night, along with exhibiting the photos on the walls.
In 1977-78, he designed and built an electric painting machine, an early predecessor of the inkjet printer. The development of this machine made Anton a pioneer of electric-digital-computer art.
In 1978, he founded NIGHT
as a interactive "gallery space" for his photography and the nightly activities at places such as Studio 54
.
In 2006, had a video retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives
, in New York.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
(Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
) in 1945. He lives and works in New York since 1970.
Biography
From 1965 to 1970, he lived in Paris and became closed to Lettrist Group (lettrismLettrism
Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and...
) : (Isidore Isou
Isidore Isou
Isidore Isou , born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist...
, Maurice Lemaître
Maurice Lemaître
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître , Isidore Isou’s right hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main...
), but also with French film underground milieu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder
Michel Auder
Michel Auder was born in Soissons France in 1945. He began making films at the age of 18. He was influenced of the French New Wave and experimental cinema, most notably Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol. In 1969, Auder met and eventually married Viva, one of Warhol’s principal talents. A year later,...
, Raphaël Bassan
Raphaël Bassan
Raphaël Bassan is a French film critic and journalist, who has specialized in experimental film and the history of cinema. He has also made three short movies.-Biography:...
, Slobodan Pajic
Slobodan Pajic
Slobodan Pajic is a visual artist who uses a variety of media in his plastic research. He began very early to work with new technologies to create unique abstract and graphic forms, employing a series of chance techniques at the limits of technology, which he transforms into video films, graphics,...
, Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti was a French actor.Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine...
). For that period, he changed his name and became Antoine Perich, because Anton was not familiar a name in France. He was among the first activists to present, every week, programs of avant-garde and underground films in the American Center in Paris.
He moved to New York in 1970, became friends with Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
and contributed as a photographer to Warhol’s Interview
Interview (magazine)
Interview is an American magazine which has the nickname The Crystal Ball Of Pop. It was founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol. The magazine features intimate conversations between some of the world's biggest celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers...
.
He also worked as a busboy at the legendary Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South, in New York City, which was a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s.-Origin of name:...
, where he photographed the scene as an ongoing art performance every night, along with exhibiting the photos on the walls.
In 1977-78, he designed and built an electric painting machine, an early predecessor of the inkjet printer. The development of this machine made Anton a pioneer of electric-digital-computer art.
In 1978, he founded NIGHT
NIGHT (magazine)
NIGHT is an art/fashion/music/literature/nightlife periodical co-edited by Anton Perich and Robert Henry Rubin. NIGHT was created during the punk-new wave-disco nightclub era of Studio 54, Xenon, Club A, Regine's, The Continental, Hurrah's, Danceteria, Pravda, Mudd Club, and established in...
as a interactive "gallery space" for his photography and the nightly activities at places such as Studio 54
Studio 54
Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...
.
In 2006, had a video retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives
__notoc__Anthology Film Archives is a film archive and theater located at 32 Second Avenue on the corner of East Second Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City devoted to the preservation and exhibition of experimental film. It is the only non-profit organization of its...
, in New York.