Doug Aitken (born 1968) is an American multidisciplinary artist. Aitken's body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live performance. He currently lives in Venice, California , and New York City.
102-1145: Doug Aitken was born in 1968 in Redondo Beach, California . In 1987, he initially studied magazine illustration with Philip Hays at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena before graduating in Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to New York in 1994 where he had his first solo show at 303 Gallery. Aitken's body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live performance. Aitken's video works have taken place in such culturally loaded sites as Jonestown in Guyana, southwest Africa's diamond mines, and India's Bollywood . Aitken has created an array of site-specific installations, sometimes synthesizing interactive media with architecture. A recent site-specific work, New Horizon , revolved around
204-454: A 360 degree screen out of the circular facade of the museum. Rather than using a more typical concave surface for such a projection, Aitken projected the film onto the convex exterior of the museum creating a cinema experience that required moving around the building and could never be fully seen from any one location. Another example of what the artist has called 'liquid architecture', his freestanding installation ALTERED EARTH (2012) explores
306-601: A California Model Continuation High School. The Independent Study Program supports grades 9-12 and is housed on the Patricia Deizler campus. Additionally, Redondo Beach has two middle schools, Adams Middle School and Parras Middle School . Adams Middle School, located in North Redondo Beach, primarily serves 6th to 8th grade students in the North Redondo area, with Parras Middle School being
408-575: A book of interviews with 26 artists pushing the limits of linear narrative; Alpha , published in 2005 by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ; Sleepwalkers (2007), published by the Museum of Modern Art , in correspondence to the film and video installation of the same name; 99 Cent Dreams (2008), a collection of photographs that captures "moments between interaction" to create a 21st-century nomadic travelogue; Write In Jerry Brown President (2008),
510-556: A book of interviews with twenty-six artists who aim to explore and challenge the conventions of linear narrative. Interviews included Robert Altman , Claire Denis , Werner Herzog , Rem Koolhaas , Kenneth Anger and others. The Idea of the West (2010) presents the collective response of 1000 people on the street who were asked “What is your idea of the West?” to create a manifesto from the quotes and comments of random individuals. Another interview project, Patterns & Repetition (2011)
612-477: A broader approach to art, literature, and lifestyle. Vienna Secession influenced not only movements but also particular architects, e.g. Russian Illarion Ivanov-Schitz who created his own unique style on its base. From the mid-1890s onwards, Mintons in England made major contributions to Art Nouveau ceramics, many designed by Marc-Louis Solon's son Leon Solon and his colleague John Wadsworth . Leon Solon
714-501: A feature film directed by Aitken, shot with footage from the 2013 happenings, titled Station to Station , premiered in Los Angeles. Experimental in format, the film was described as "...a textured, visceral collection of 62 shorts capturing moments during the three-week journey..." Aitken has participated in over 200 art exhibitions throughout the world. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as
816-580: A fine-arts society with the goal of reforming the applied arts (arts and crafts). In 1907, Wiener Werkstätte and Hoffmann personally became founding members of Deutscher Werkbund . After the founding of the Wiener Werkstätte, it was above all the organisation of the world exhibition in St. Louis in 1904 that sparked differences in the Secession. This failed exhibition led to fierce opposition within
918-449: A folded artist book published by the Museum of Modern Art ,; The Idea of the West (2010), which asked 1,000 people about their idea of the west, and was produced in conjunction with a happening at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ,; Black Mirror (2011), features a nomadic Chloë Sevigny, produced in conjunction with a video installation and live theater performance staged on a barge; SONG 1 (2012), accompanied an exhibition of
1020-523: A landscape of repetition and philosophical reckoning with its effect on the world. In 2023 in Zürich, he showed a five-channel video installation titled HOWL where "oil derricks spot the rolling, sun-bleached hills of a desolate valley in central California while plywood boards shutter local stores. Interspersed within these depictions of wide-open spaces, residents provide soundbites on the circumstances of living in this dying town. They tell of their hopes for
1122-678: A median home costing $ 1.4 million, 60% higher than the regional average for Los Angeles. The 2010 United States Census reported that Redondo Beach had a population of 66,748. The population density was 10,751.1 inhabitants per square mile (4,151.0/km ). The racial makeup of Redondo Beach was 49,805 (74.6%) White (65.2% Non-Hispanic White), 1,852 (2.8%) African American , 291 (0.4%) Native American , 8,004 (12.0%) Asian , 199 (0.3%) Pacific Islander , 2,725 (4.1%) from other races , and 3,872 (5.8%) from two or more races. There were 10,142 residents of Hispanic or Latino ancestry, of any race (15.2%). The Census reported that 66,317 people (99.4% of
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#17327901698331224-506: A portal that physically connected a viewer to the expanse of the ocean while simultaneously disrupting preconceived visual ideas of the aquatic world. By merging the language of contemporary architecture, land art, and ocean research and conservation, the Underwater Pavilions were a living artwork within a vibrant ecosystem. In contrast to areas of the sculpture that have a rough and rock-like surface, mirrored sections reflected
1326-520: A protagonist played by the iconic American artist Ed Ruscha , as he's seen caught in a landscape between fiction and non-fiction. The work creates a futuristic journey from day to night in a world where reality is put into question. In the happening, performers from the film, such as a professional whip cracker, come alive in the installation while surrounded by the audience. First shown at the Deste Foundation ’s project space "Slaughterhouse" on
1428-454: A real-time opera titled "the handle comes up, the hammer comes down" that assembled auctioneers performing against the rhythms of his Sonic Table , at Il Tempo del Postino, at Theater Basel . Also in 2009, along with his large-scale video installation, Frontier , presented on the Tiber river's Isola Tiberina in the heart of Rome, Aitken staged a happening by the same title. The film featured
1530-524: A reflective hot air balloon and gondola that transformed into a kinetic light sculpture. The balloon sculpture was featured in a series of happenings that took place in July 2019 across the state of Massachusetts. Another project was Underwater Pavilions (2016), which consisted of three temporary sculptures that were moored to the ocean floor off Catalina Island, CA. Geometric in design, the sculptures created environments that reflected and refracted light, opening
1632-582: A site adjacent to City Hall was identified for a new, modern Main Library building. The new Main Library for the City of Redondo Beach opened on July 8, 1995, at 303 N. Pacific Coast Highway. A North Branch Library was also established in 1930 and started at the Grant Community Hall, it then moved to its current location at 2000 Artesia Boulevard in 1949. A new North Branch Library was constructed on
1734-629: A small portion of the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt . The extract from the painting features three figures: a knight in armor representing Armed Strength, one woman in the background symbolizing Ambition and holding up a wreath of victory, and a second woman representing Sympathy with lowered head and clasped hands. On the obverse side of the Austrian 50 euro-cent coin , the Vienna Secession Building figures within
1836-567: A striking use of new materials, such reinforced concrete and aluminum, and a minimum of decoration on the facade or inside. The work of Josef Hoffmann also showed a gradual transition away from floral designs and curving lines. His best-known building, the Stoclet Palace in Brussels, had a tower of stacked cubic forms, minimum ornament on the facade, and an interior of right angles and geometric designs. The only Art Nouveau elements were
1938-643: Is a charter city . Almost two thirds of the residents in Los Angeles County, the majority in Southern California, and a plurality of Californians live in charter cities according to the 2010 US Census. As a charter city, Redondo Beach can adopt amendments to its city charter. In the California State Legislature , Redondo Beach is in the 24th Senate District , represented by Democrat Ben Allen , and in
2040-605: Is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California , United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area. It is one of three adjacent beach cities along the southern portion of Santa Monica Bay . The population was 71,576 at the 2020 census , up from 66,748 in 2010 . Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1785 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant that later became
2142-402: Is a nomadic “ Happening ” that first occurred in the fall of 2013 on a transcontinental train. It functioned as a moving platform for artistic experimentation stopping in cities, towns and remote locations across America. An artist-created project, Station to Station embraced constantly changing stories, unexpected encounters, and creative collisions between music, art and film. The project had
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#17327901698332244-443: Is a series of filmed conversations about creativity in the 21st Century in which Aitken conducts short conversations with pioneers in different artistic disciplines, including Devendra Banhart , Thomas Demand , Jack White , James Murphy , Mike Kelley , Jacques Herzog , Fischli & Weiss , Yayoi Kusama , Stephen Shore , and Dan Graham . Continuing his interest in the exchange of ideas, Aitken's work "THE SOURCE" (2012) explores
2346-488: Is known as House with medallions because of its decor of gilded stucco medallions by Wagner's student and frequent collaborator, Koloman Moser. The most ornate earlier decoration was removed but later restored. During this period, Otto Wagner also built extraordinarily stylized stations for the new Vienna urban transport system, the Stadtbahn , which also became the symbols of the Secession style. The most famous of these
2448-598: Is located in Redondo Beach. Created in 1955, as South Bay Hospital, to provide health and wellness services to the residents of Hermosa Beach , Manhattan Beach , and Redondo Beach. The district took on its current name in 1993. In 2002, Beach Cities Health District opened AdventurePlex, a Manhattan Beach fitness facility for youth and their families of the three beach cities. AdventurePlex has mazes, tunnels, outdoor rock climbing walls, complex ropes courses , and an indoor gymnasium. The Redondo Beach Police Department
2550-503: Is no housing crisis in Redondo Beach . In 2023, Redondo Beach sued to prevent the transformation of the lot of an aging waterfront power plant into a village-style complex of 2,700 residential units (including 540 affordable units) and commercial space. The mayor of Redondo Beach, Bill Brand, became mayor after spearheading an effort to block housing on the lot. According to the United States Census Bureau ,
2652-418: Is represented by 303 Gallery , New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber , Zürich; and Victoria Miro Gallery , London. Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 16–19. ISBN 9783822840931 . OCLC 191239335 . Redondo Beach, California Redondo Beach (Spanish for ' round ' )
2754-671: Is the Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station in the center of Vienna, Joseph Maria Olbrich was his collaborator for this project. The style of these buildings marked a transition toward more geometric forms, and the beginnings of modernism. Wagner's later buildings built after 1899, including the Church of St. Leopold (1902–1907) and especially the Austrian Postal Savings Bank (1903–1906, extended at 1910–12), had straight lines and geometric forms,
2856-420: Is the issue at stake in our Secession. It is not a debate over aesthetics, but a confrontation between two different spiritual states." In the beginning, the Secession had fifty members, and at its first gathering elected the painter Gustav Klimt as its president. Other founding or early members included the architect Josef Hoffmann, the designer Koloman Moser, the designer and architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, and
2958-442: Is well known for his many photographs, which often explore spatial and temporal disruption and narrative suggestion like his installations. For example, Passenger , a group of still photographs made in 1999, shows planes in flight, most of which focus on the faint traceries of takeoffs and landings over desolate airport landscapes. More recently, Aitken has created aluminum light boxes that combine photographic image and text. Extending
3060-530: The 66th Assembly District , represented by Democrat Al Muratsuchi . In the United States House of Representatives , Redondo Beach is in California's 36th congressional district , represented by Democrat Ted Lieu . In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama won 59% of the vote and John McCain won 37% of the vote. The Redondo Beach Unified School District serves
3162-565: The Aspen Art Museum mounted the first exhibition dedicated solely to Aitken's photography. From September 10, 2016 - January 15, 2017, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, exhibited Doug Aitken: Electric Earth , the artist's first North American mid-career survey. The exhibition traveled to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , TX from May 28, 2017 - Aug 20, 2017. Aitken
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3264-471: The Barcelona Pavilion composed of a central post supporting a few sweeping steel branches that rotated while highly directional speakers at the end of each branch played snippets of scripted conversation. In October 2009, Aitken's Sonic Pavilion opened to the public. The pavilion is located in the forested hills of Brazil, at Inhotim . The Sonic Pavilion provides a communal space to listen to
3366-712: The Camargue region of southern France in a maze-like flowing arrangement of twelve large projections in the hangar-like Grande Halle of the Parc des Ateliers in Arles. The work also inspired an app created by the artist and POST for the Apple iPad. Commissioned by art patron Bagley Wright , Mirror (2013) is a large LED screen, wrapped around the corner of the Seattle Art Museum , with thin strips of vertical lights. For
3468-585: The Secession Building to display the art of Klimt and the members of the group, and also by foreign artists, including Max Klinger, Eugène Grasset , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , and Arnold Böcklin . Josef Hoffmann became the principal designer of exhibitions at the Secession House. The dome and stylized facade became a symbol of the movement. A group of artists including Koloman Moser, Othmar Schimkowitz , Jože Plečnik , and others, under
3570-594: The Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs ) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau , that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman , Koloman Moser , Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt . They resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles. Their most influential architectural work
3672-809: The Whitney Museum of American Art , The Museum of Modern Art , and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Among others, he has had solo exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , the Serpentine Gallery , London, Kunsthalle Zürich , Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz , Austria, Museum of Modern Art , New York, Deste Foundation , Greece and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan. In 2006,
3774-489: The old Redondo Salt Lake , "a spring-fed salt lake about 200 yards [180 m] wide and 600 yards [550 m] long situated about 200 yards from the ocean". Up through the 1700s, the Chowigna bartered salt from the lake with other tribes. The Chowigna were relocated to missions in 1854, when Manuel Dominguez sold 215 acres (87 ha) of Rancho San Pedro , including the lake, to Henry Allanson and William Johnson for
3876-654: The Chamber of Commerce recommended a new library be built on the site previously occupied by the Hotel Redondo in what is now Veterans Park. The Veterans Park Library is a Spanish/Dutch colonial building designed by architect Lovel Bearse Pemberton and opened on July 2, 1930. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. After serving as the Main Library for the city for 60 years,
3978-517: The Greek island of Hydra , Black Mirror is displayed on five screens reflected “into infinity” across black mirrors and stars Chloë Sevigny tethered only by brief conversations over the phone and through voiceover in such disparate locales as Mexico, Greece, and Central America. "Black Mirror" was also a four-night event staged on a custom barge, again featuring a performers from the film: Leo Gallo, Tim McAfee-Lewis, No Age, and Chloë Sevigny . Aitken
4080-659: The International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999. His ambitious show New Ocean , which included multiple sound, photo, and video works, began with a transformation of the Serpentine Gallery in London and traveled the world to Austria, Italy and Japan, each time in a new configuration. In 2010, Aitken exhibited his work House , a study of destruction featuring the artist's parents. In 2017,
4182-488: The Namib desert in southwestern Africa known as Diamond Area 1 and 2 . The territory, estimated at over 40,000 square miles and sealed off since 1908, contains the world's largest and richest computer-controlled diamond mine. Hysteria (1998–2000) uses film footage from the past four decades that shows audiences at pop and rock concerts working themselves into a frenzy on four screens in an X formation. Filmed and photographed in
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4284-577: The Pacific Salt Works. The city's residents and political leaders have long advocated to retire an aging waterfront power plant and allow it to be restored to its natural wetland state, rather than converted into a housing development. The city has also participated in legal proceedings to preserve its ability to participate in residential zoning decisions, including the discretion to regulate single-family homes from being transformed by for-profit developers into “six-on-a-lots.” In 1983,
4386-819: The Redondo Beach Station #2 Post Office at 1715 Via El Prado, the North Redondo Beach Post Office at 2215 Artesia Boulevard, and the Galleria Post Office at Suite 377D at 1815 Hawthorne Boulevard. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Torrance Health Center in Harbor Gateway , Los Angeles , near Torrance and serving Redondo Beach. The Beach Cities Health District, one of 78 California Health Districts,
4488-485: The Secession Building. In its current form, the Secession exhibition gallery is independently led and managed by artists. The Vienna Secession was founded on 3 April 1897 by artist Gustav Klimt, designer Koloman Moser, architects Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil , Wilhelm Bernatzik and others. The architect Otto Wagner joined the group shortly after it was founded. The goals stated at
4590-614: The Secession purchase the Gallery, as an outlet for its work. This was supported by Klimt, Wagner, Hoffmann, Moser, and others. The issue was put to a vote by the members, and Klimt and his supporters lost by a single vote. On 14 June 1905, Klimt, Hoffmann, Moser and a group of other artists resigned from the Secession. The following year, Klimt formed the group called Kunstschau (Art Show) or Klimtgruppe (Klimt group), which also included Moll and Otto Wagner, among other important Austrian artists. The Secession continued to function after
4692-725: The South Redondo area. The primary attractions include Municipal Pier and the sandy beach, popular with tourists and a variety of sports enthusiasts. The western terminus of the Metro Rail C Line (formerly the Green Line) is in North Redondo Beach. The South Bay area was originally inhabited by the Tongva tribe of Native Americans. Archeological work in the nearby Chowigna excavation show evidence of inhabitants as far back as 7,100 years ago. The Chowigna band of Tongva used
4794-552: The Vienna Secession. Leopold Forstner was in important artist in this domain, working closely with Otto Wagner and other architects. He designed the windows for the Austrian Postal Savings Bank, one of the landmarks of the Vienna Secession style, and also for the St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church , the most notable of Vienna Secession churches. Another notable figure in Secession glass art
4896-640: The Viennese public. With the help of a network of art dealers such as Paul Cassirer, Durand-Ruel and Bernheim-Jeune and the support of the delegate of the Vienna Secession in Paris François-Rupert Carabin works by Bonnard, Degas, Denis, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec, Valloton, Vuillard etc. were presented in the Vienna Secession between 1899 and 1903. The 14th Secession exhibition in 1902, designed by Josef Hoffmann and dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven ,
4998-609: The War, Hoffmann rejoined the Vienna Secession, the artistic movement from which he, Klimt and Wagner had dramatically quit in 1905. He was elected President of the Secession from 1948 to 1950. The Secession continues to function today, holding regular exhibitions in the Secession Hall. Along with painters and sculptors, several prominent architects were associated with the Vienna Secession, most notably Joseph Maria Olbrich, Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann. In 1897–98 Olbrich designed
5100-472: The area, its oil-boom history, their lives and the wider future." In 1998, Glass Horizon , an installation comprising a projection of a pair of eyes onto the facade of the Vienna Secession building after it had closed for the night, showcased an interest in architectural structures and in art that interacts with urban environments. In 2001, Aitken's exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery used
5202-423: The artist displayed a three channel video installation titled Underwater Pavilions at Art Basel Unlimited, documenting sculptures of the same name. Aitken has shown NEW ERA , a kaleidoscopic multi-channel video installation in a mirrored hexagonal room, in various locations across the world, from New York to Zurich, Denmark, Beijing, California and London. The artwork maps the creation of the cellular telephone into
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#17327901698335304-416: The association. An important division soon emerged inside the Secession between those who wished to give precedence to the painters and the traditional fine arts, and others, including Klimt, Hoffmann, Wagner, Moser and others who favored equal treatment for the decorative arts. This dispute came to a head in 1905 when Miethke Gallery's artistic consultant (and a painter himself), Carl Moll , proposed that
5406-405: The average family size was 2.87. In the city, 18.8% of the population was under the age of 18; 6.1%, aged 18 to 24; 43.1%, aged 25 to 44; 23.6%, aged 45 to 64; and 8.5% aged 65 or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.8 males. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city
5508-506: The city has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16 km ), over 99% of it land. Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant of the 43,000-acre (170 km ) Dominguez Rancho that later became the ten-mile (16 km) ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo . Redondo Beach has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification : Csb ) with mild winters and warm, almost rainless summers. The coldest months are December through March, and
5610-679: The city of Redondo Beach adopted a resolution “recognizing the Goodyear Airship Columbia (aka Goodyear blimp) as the “Official Bird of Redondo Beach.” In 2022, the Redondo Beach government (along with the governments of Torrance , Carson , and Whittier ) sued the California state government, seeking to block the California HOME Act (SB 9), which permits the construction of duplexes and fourplexes on lots. Redondo Beach mayor Bill Brand has argued that there
5712-578: The city. Redondo Union High School is the zoned high school, with the adjoining campus of Patricia Dreizler Continuation High School located to the east of the Redondo Union High School main grounds serving as a continuation school. The Redondo Beach Learning Academy, a community day school houses 9th-12th graders, is located on the South Bay Adult School campus in Redondo Beach. Dreizler continues to be recognized as
5814-1384: The country - New York; Pittsburgh; Chicago; Minneapolis/St. Paul; Santa Fe/Lamy, New Mexico; Winslow, Arizona; Barstow, California; Los Angeles; and Oakland. The project acted as a studio and cultural incubator, creating unplanned moments and artistic collisions. Artists that participated included Kenneth Anger , Olaf Breuning , Peter Coffin , Thomas Demand , Urs Fischer , Meschac Gaba , Liz Glynn, Fischli & Weiss , Fritz Haeg , Carsten Höller , Olafur Eliasson , Christian Jankowski , Aaron Koblin , Ernesto Neto , Nam June Paik , Jorge Pardo , Jack Pierson , Nicolas Provost , Stephen Shore , Rirkrit Tiravanija , and Lawrence Weiner . Musicians included Beck , The Black Monks of Mississippi, Boredoms , Jackson Browne , Cat Power , Cold Cave , The Congos , Dan Deacon , Eleanor Friedberger , The Handsome Family , Lia Ices , Kansas City Marching Cobras, Lucky Dragons , Thurston Moore , Giorgio Moroder , Nite Jewel , No Age , Patti Smith , Ariel Pink ’s Haunted Graffiti, Savages (band) , Mavis Staples , Suicide (band) , Sun Araw , Thee Satisfaction , Twin Shadow and others. Printed matter contributors included Taylor-Ruth Baldwin, Yto Barrada , Sam Durant , Karen Kilimnik , Urs Fischer , Catherine Opie , Jack Pierson , Raymond Pettibon , and Josh Smith . Food
5916-518: The creation of an exhibit space which would introduce international artists and art movements to Vienna. The architect was Joseph Maria Olbrich, a student of Otto Wagner; and his domed gallery building, with a sculptural frieze over the entrance, in the center of Vienna, became the symbol of the movement. It was the first dedicated gallery of contemporary art in the city. This helped make the French Impressionists and others familiar to
6018-502: The departure of Klimt, Hoffmann, Wagner and their supporters, giving regular exhibitions in the Secession building, but they lacked the originality and excitement of the earlier period. The designer Peter Behrens became a member of the Secession in 1938. Under the regime of the Nazi Party the Secession building was destroyed as a symbol of degenerate art , but was faithfully reconstructed following World War II . In 1945, following
6120-568: The designated middle school of South Redondo Beach. The city also has eight established elementary schools: Alta Vista, Beryl Heights, Birney, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Tulita and Washington. All twelve schools are evenly divided throughout the North and South areas of Redondo Beach, with five elementary schools and one middle school located in North/Central Redondo Beach; and three elementary schools, one middle school, and
6222-466: The direction of architect Otto Wagner, decorated two apartment buildings Wagner designed; the Linke Wienzeile Buildings in 1898–1899. The building at Linke Wienzeile 40 is known as Majolikahaus or Majolica House. Its facade is entirely covered with majolica , or colorful fired clay tiles in floral designs. The Art Nouveau ornaments of its facade was done by his student Alois Ludwig [ de ] . The other building, Linke Wienzeile 38 ,
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#17327901698336324-480: The dusty sound stages and film sets of Bombay, Into the Sun (1999) focuses on the frenetic activity of Bollywood , recreating the sound stages of the Indian film industry with canvas projection screens, a red dirt floor, and video shown in a non-stop, twenty-four-hour loop. diamond sea was presented at the 1997 Whitney Biennial and his electric earth installation, an eight projection, multi-room post cinematic experience, drew international attention and earned him
6426-428: The entire building for the complex installation New Ocean including transforming the museum's tower into a functional lighthouse at night. In 2004, after having worked together in Berlin, Doug Aitken and Klaus Biesenbach co-curated Hard Light , a group exhibition at MoMA PS1 . In the winter of 2007, Aitken's large-scale installation Sleepwalkers , curated by Klaus Biesenbach in collaboration with Creative Time ,
6528-464: The facade could be efficiently cleaned with the use of fire hoses. Art Nouveau is called after Vienna Secession in languages of former Austro-Hungary : Hungarian : szecesszió , Czech : secese , Slovak : secesia , Polish : secesja , Serbian сецесија, Croatian secesija . Vienna Secession also influenced the Polish movement Młoda Polska (Young Poland), that was also inclusive of other than Art Nouveau artistic styles and encompassed
6630-508: The founding included establishing contact and an exchange of ideas with artists outside Austria, disputing artistic nationalism, renewing the decorative arts; creating a "total art", that unified painting, architecture, and the decorative arts; and, in particular, opposing the domination of the official Vienna Academy of the Arts, the Vienna Künstlerhaus , and official art salons, with its traditional orientation toward Historicism . The movement took its name from Munich Secession movement that
6732-405: The mid-1990s, Aitken has created installations by employing multiple screens in architecturally provocative environments. diamond sea (1997), for example, includes three video projections, one suspended video monitor, and one full-color, illuminated transparency photograph in a dimly lit space. Multiple speakers create an immersive sound experience; the multi-screen film explores a guarded region in
6834-400: The movement, in 1902, the architect Otto Wagner designed chairs using modern materials, including aluminum, combined with wood, to match the architecture of his Austrian Postal Savings Bank building. In 1905 Josef Hoffmann produced an adjustable-backed chair which reflected the more geometric forms of the late Secession. Glass, particularly stained glass windows, played a significant part in
6936-507: The murals by Gustav Klimt. The Stoclet Palace best illustrated Hoffmann's transition from Art Nouveau toward modernism. Secession architects often designed furniture to accompany their architectural projects, along with carpets, lamps, wallpaper, and even bathroom fixtures and even towels. The furniture presented by the Secession at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition was particularly praised, and won international attention for its creators, including Else Unger and Emilio Zago. Later in
7038-405: The museum that featured live drummers and auctioneers, and a performance by Cat Power. In the same year, he created an interactive music table: "k-n-o-c-k-o-u-t". In 2008, Aitken produced another large scale outdoor film installation, titled Migration for the 55th Carnegie International show titled "Life on Mars" in Pittsburgh, PA. The first installment in a three-part trilogy entitled Empire ,
7140-400: The painters Max Kurzweil and Alphonse Mucha , who resided in Paris and was already famous for his Art Nouveau posters. The established painter Rudolf von Alt , eighty-five years old, was chosen as the Honorary President of the group, and he led a delegation with an invitation to the Emperor Franz-Joseph to attend the first Exposition. The first architectural project of the Secession was
7242-399: The physical world. The sculptures were created in partnership with Parley for the Oceans and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . Another site-specific project, titled Mirage , premiered at Desert X , near Palm Springs, CA from February 25 to April 30, 2017, and evolved with presentations in Detroit, MI, as Mirage Detroit (2018), and Switzerland as Mirage Gstaad (2019). Since
7344-651: The population) lived in households, 367 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 64 (0.1%) were institutionalized. There were 29,011 households, out of which 7,825 (27.0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 12,507 (43.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,515 (8.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,207 (4.2%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,904 (6.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 179 (0.6%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 9,252 households (31.9%) were made up of individuals, and 2,145 (7.4%) had someone living alone who
7446-421: The population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 29,521 people (44.2%) lived in rental housing units. According to the 2010 United States Census, Redondo Beach had a median household income of $ 99,496, with 5.4% of the population living below the federal poverty line. As of the census of 2000, there were 63,261 people, 28,566 households, and 15,254 families residing in the city. The population density
7548-408: The population. There were 28,566 households, out of which 23.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.6% were non-families. 33.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and
7650-443: The project, Aitken had been filming for the project over five years, capturing images of central Seattle as well as the surrounding area. A computer program selects which parts of the footage to project in response to a live feed of information that ranges from the weather to the density of traffic in the streets of Seattle. In 2006, Aitken produced Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken ( Distributed Art Publishers , 2006),
7752-661: The reverberations of tremors generated by the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat (in eraser , 1998). In 1996, for the public art organization Creative Time , Aitken conceived an installation piece in the Anchorage, a cavernous space inside the base of the Brooklyn Bridge , that used recordings of the traffic noises overhead. In 2004, he completed a sound sculpture for
7854-437: The root of creativity. Six projections in a pavilion designed by David Adjaye , cycle through many more interviews with artists, architects, and musicians such as Adjaye, Liz Diller, William Eggleston , Philippe Parreno , Paolo Soleri , Tilda Swinton , and Beck among others. Aitken has directed many live "happenings" including his Broken Screen happenings from 2006 in Los Angeles and New York. In 2009, Aitken orchestrated
7956-564: The same name at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the book takes the form of the Hirshhorn itself, while examining the artwork that explores the idea of pure communication through the pop song I Only Have Eyes for You . Two monograph style books contain comprehensive information on the artist's career: Doug Aitken: 100 YRS , published by Rizzoli and Doug Aitken: Electric Earth , published by Prestel. Station to Station
8058-421: The seascape and, when approached, activated to become a kaleidoscopic observatory. The environments created by the sculptures changed and adjusted with the currents and time of day, focusing the attention of the viewer on the rhythm of the ocean and its life cycles. The artwork created a variety of converging perceptual encounters that played with the fluidity of time and space, resulting in a heightened awareness of
8160-694: The singular designated high school placed in South Redondo Beach. The Redondo Beach Educational Foundation was founded in 1992 and revitalized in 2008. Residents of Redondo Beach were in South Bay Union High School District until 1993, when it dissolved. Valor Christian Academy (formerly Coast Christian School) is in Redondo Beach. The United States Postal Service operates the Redondo Beach Post Office at 1201 North Catalina Avenue,
8262-582: The site in 2009 and opened its doors on September 28, 2010. The North Branch Library is the first City owned Green building and received Gold LEED certification . Redondo Beach is served by Beach Cities Transit and the Redondo Beach K Line station. Historically, the city was served by the Santa Fe Railroad and Pacific Electric's Venice-Playa del Rey and Redondo Beach via Gardena lines. Vienna Secession The Vienna Secession (German: Wiener Secession ; also known as
8364-405: The site of today's Hopkins Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach, (formerly Nike missile site LA-57 from 1956 to 1963,) as a lookout place. The wetlands located at the site of the retired AES power plant in Redondo Beach were a source of foods including halibut, lobster, and sea bass, and also of salt. The Tongva village of Ongovanga or Onoova-nga, meaning "Place of Salt," was located near a salt lake
8466-406: The sounds of the earth as they are recorded through highly sensitive microphones buried close to a mile deep into the ground and carried back into the pavilion through a number of speakers. The sound heard inside the pavilion is the amplified sound of the moving interior of the earth. Aitken has collaborated on his films with a wide variety of musicians, from hip hop artist André 3000 of Outkast, who
8568-399: The support of a wide range of institutions including MoMA PS1 , Carnegie Museum of Art, MCA Chicago, Walker Art Center, SITE Santa Fe, LACMA and SFMOMA. All event proceeds went to fund multi-museum arts programs throughout 2014. Art works and musical performances changed with every stop. The train traveled from New York City to San Francisco, making a total of 9 stops at train stations across
8670-517: The theme of text and image, Aitken has produced sculptures from materials as diverse as plants inside clear acrylic and kaleidoscopic mirrors. Other sculptures, such as sunset (black and white) , 2012, employ the use of hand-carved foam, epoxy and hand silk-screened acrylic. Interested in the uneasy intersection of nature and culture or narrative variability, the artist has incorporated into his scores what he calls "field recordings," such as jungle noises from Jonestown, Guyana (in his 1995 monsoon ), and
8772-592: The top employers in the city are: Redondo Beach's City Council elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March of odd-numbered years after the City Attorney notified California's Secretary of State of not moving both its City Council and Board of Education elections to a statewide primary or general election starting in 2018. The elections are all-mail instead of in-person. The current mayor and council members are: The City of Redondo Beach
8874-474: The warmest months are July through September. Redondo Beach has mild temperatures year round due to its coastal location. The city is affluent and predominantly white. The 2020 census found that greater than 50% of Redondo Beach’s residents are white, nearly double the rate of the greater Los Angeles area. Redondo Beach, like its neighboring beach towns, has become one of the most exclusionary cities in Los Angeles by limiting housing production, resulting in
8976-558: The work features migratory wild animals of North America as they pass through and curiously inhabit empty and desolate hotel rooms. Continuing Aitken's work in large scale outdoor video installation, his artwork "SONG 1" (2012), created for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , challenged the standard of public art in Washington D.C. The artwork, which deconstructed the popular song " I Only Have Eyes for You ", created
9078-399: Was $ 93,274, and the median income for a family was $ 108,753. Males had a median income of $ 56,796 versus $ 45,204 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 38,305. About 4.0% of families and 5.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 6.2% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over. According to the city's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,
9180-429: Was 10,065.4 inhabitants per square mile (3,886.3/km ). There were 29,543 housing units at an average density of 4,700.6 units per square mile (1,814.9 units/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 78.6% White , 9.1% Asian , 2.5% African American , 0.5% Native American , 0.4% Pacific Islander , 4.4% from other races , and 4.6, % from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 13.5% of
9282-423: Was 39.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.2 males. There were 30,609 housing units at an average density of 4,930.2 units per square mile (1,903.6 units/km ), of which 14,917 (51.4%) were owner-occupied, and 14,094 (48.6%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.9%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.3%. 36,796 people (55.1% of
9384-403: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29. There were 16,229 families (55.9% of all households); the average family size was 2.94. Redondo Beach had 12,887 people (19.3%) under the age of 18, 4,198 people (6.3%) aged 18 to 24, 23,149 people (34.7%) aged 25 to 44, 19,532 people (29.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,982 people (10.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
9486-463: Was Johann Loetz Witwe, who made a striking series of iridescent vases which won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Mosaics of ceramic tiles were another important element of the Vienna Secession style. They were used to decorate both building facades and interiors. Otto Wagner used them to decorate the Majolika House, where they served both as decoration and for a practical purpose;
9588-522: Was aimed at a broad market. The range concentrated on items bought singly or in pairs, such as jugs or vases, rather than full table services. The Secession movement was selected as the theme for an Austrian commemorative coin: the 100 euro Secession commemorative coin minted on 10 November 2004. On the obverse side there is a view of the Secession exhibition hall in Vienna. The reverse side features
9690-613: Was especially famous. A statue of Beethoven by Max Klinger stood at the center, with Klimt's Beethoven Frieze mounted around it. The Klimt frieze has been restored and can be seen in the gallery today. In 1899, Olbrich left Vienna to join the Darmstadt Artists' Colony . In 1900, he obtained Hessian citizenship and did not work in Austria again. In 1903, Hoffmann and Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte as
9792-464: Was established in the 1920s. The Police Department consists of 90 sworn members (officers) plus 57 non-sworn members. The first library in Redondo Beach began as a reading room in 1895. The first five-member Library Commission for the city was formed in November 1908. The library moved into the then City Hall's west wing in 1909 and eventually filled the entire west wing at 301 Emerald Street. In 1928
9894-464: Was founded in 1892. The goals of the new movement in Vienna were expressed by the literary critic Hermann Bahr in the first issue of the new journal begun by the group, called Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring"). Bahr wrote, "Our art is not a combat of modern artists against those of the past, but the promotion of the arts against the peddlers who pose as artists and who have a commercial interest in not letting art bloom. The choice between commerce and art
9996-431: Was hired by Mintons after his work was published in the hugely influential design magazine The Studio and he worked for the company from 1895 to 1905, including a brief stint as Art Director. Solon introduced designs influenced by the Vienna Secession, and a range in earthenware made from about 1901 to 1916 was branded as "Secessionist Ware". It was made mostly using industrial techniques that kept it relatively cheap, and
10098-566: Was in Aitken's 2002 multiscreen Interiors to indie bands like Lichens and No Age , which contributed to his score for his 2008 film Migration and 2011's Black Mirror , respectively. Aitken is also a producer of books: I AM A BULLET: Scenes from an Accelerating Culture (2000) a collaboration with writer Dean Kuipers ; Doug Aitken: A-Z Book (Fractals) (2003), the alphabet serves as structure to arrange Aitken's photography and video work, along with texts and interviews; Broken Screen (2005),
10200-464: Was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The project included actors such as Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton , as well as musicians Seu Jorge and Cat Power . Five interlocking vignettes shown through eight projections were displayed upon the exterior walls of the museum so as to be visible from the street. Concurrent with the exhibition, Aitken also presented a "happening" inside
10302-642: Was provided by Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard Project and chef Leif Hedendal . From June 27- July 26, 2015, Aitken staged Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening at the Barbican Centre in London. Envisioned as a living exhibition, the entire multi-arts facility was turned into a large scale multi-disciplinary event, with more than 100 artists, including Olafur Eliasson , Martin Creed , and Terry Riley . On August 21, 2015,
10404-550: Was the Secession exhibitions hall designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich as a venue for expositions of the group. Their official magazine was called Ver Sacrum ( Sacred Spring , in Latin), which published highly stylised and influential works of graphic art. In 1905 the group itself split, when some of the most prominent members, including Klimt, Wagner, and Hoffmann, resigned in a dispute over priorities, but it continued to function, and still functions today, from its headquarters in
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