Billy Apple® / Braco Dimitrijević: Conceptual Art Pioneers
Past exhibition
Installation Views
Works
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Braco DimitrijevicCasual Passer-by I met at 1.56 PM, 1976B/W Inkjet on PVC Artex
B/W Silver gelatine print framed: 86 x 66 cm360 x 300 cm
141 3/4 x 118 1/8 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicThis Could be a Place of Historical Importance, 1972Marble plaque with gold lettering62 x 80 x 2 cm
24 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 3/4 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicAccidental Sculpture, 1968Silver gelatine mounted on board89.5 x 69.5 cm
35 1/4 x 27 3/8 inches -
Billy Apple®Body Cleaning: Bathing and Shampooing (35A Cornwall Gardens, London, Winter 1960), 1960Black and white photograph20.3 x 25.4 cm
8 x 10 inches -
Billy Apple®Billy Apple Bleaching with Lady Clairol Instant Crème Whip, November 1962, 1962Black and white photograph by Richard Smith with screen-printed text40.8 x 57.5 cm
16 1/8 x 22 5/8 inches -
Billy Apple®The Ship, Brighton Beach, Sussex, England, 1963Mixed media12.9 x 26 x 8.3 cm
5 1/8 x 10 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches -
Billy Apple®Art Declared Found Activity (Lathering, Alicante Spain, April 1960), Art Declared Found Activity (Shaving, Alicante Spain, April 1960), 1960Two black and white photographs36.5 x 46 cm
14 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicPainting by Kresimir, 1969Vintage photographs framed90 x 70 cm
35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicAccidental Drawing, 1968Black and white photograph94 x 74 cm
37 x 29 1/8 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicAccidental Painting IV, 1968Black and white photograph94 x 74 cm
37 x 29 1/8 inches -
Billy Apple®Homonym, 1963Colour diptych44 x 39 x 4 cm
17 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Billy Apple®Roof Dirt (Cleaning) 1 May 1971, 1971Photography17.6 x 25.4 cm
6 7/8 x 10 inches
Framed: 53 x 43 cm -
Billy Apple®Four Activities: Mopping, Sweeping, Vacuuming, Washing, 20 March 1971, 1971Black and white photograph, 4 partsEach: 15.5 x 24 cm
6 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches -
Billy Apple®Self-Portrait with Eye Patch, 1973Photograph14.6 x 10.7 cm
5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches
Framed: 43 x 38 cm -
Braco DimitrijevicThis Could be a Masterpiece, 1972Gouache drawing on printed form55 x 35 cm
21 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches -
Braco DimitrijevicThis Could be a Masterpiece, 1971Gouache drawing on printed form55 x 35 cm
21 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches -
Braco Dimitrijevic, This Could be a Reason for Books to be Written, 1973
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Braco Dimitrijevic, This Could be a Masterpiece, 1972
Overview
For our inaugural exhibition at 9 Bury Street, we showcase a dual presentation featuring the works of conceptual art pioneers, Billy Apple® (b. 1935 – d. 2021, Auckland, New Zealand) and Braco Dimitrijević (b. 1948, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Billy Apple® studied at the Royal College of Art between 1959 and 1962 exhibiting alongside fellow artists such as David Hockney, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. In 1964 he moved to New York working with Andy Warhol in the pivotal exhibition The American Supermarket including Oldenburg, Wesselmann and Johns. In 1969, the artist opened Apple at 161 West 23rd Street, one of the six not-for-profit spaces that established New York’s Conceptual Art movement.
Braco Dimitrijević is known as a pioneer of Conceptual Art creating artistic intervention into urban landscapes. He studied from 1968 to 1971 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and continued with a Post-graduate work at St Martin’s School of Art in London, obtaining a British Council Grant in 1972. Dimitrijević is renowned internationally for his 1970s ‘Casual Passer-by’ series, vast photo portraits of anonymous people displayed on prominent buildings in European and American cities. Dimitrijević lives and works in Paris.
Billy Apple® studied at the Royal College of Art between 1959 and 1962 exhibiting alongside fellow artists such as David Hockney, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. In 1964 he moved to New York working with Andy Warhol in the pivotal exhibition The American Supermarket including Oldenburg, Wesselmann and Johns. In 1969, the artist opened Apple at 161 West 23rd Street, one of the six not-for-profit spaces that established New York’s Conceptual Art movement.
Braco Dimitrijević is known as a pioneer of Conceptual Art creating artistic intervention into urban landscapes. He studied from 1968 to 1971 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and continued with a Post-graduate work at St Martin’s School of Art in London, obtaining a British Council Grant in 1972. Dimitrijević is renowned internationally for his 1970s ‘Casual Passer-by’ series, vast photo portraits of anonymous people displayed on prominent buildings in European and American cities. Dimitrijević lives and works in Paris.
