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Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 – 20 June 1995) was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas. He was the father of Andy Warhol protégé Bibbe Hansen and the grandfather and artistic mentor of rock musician Beck and artist Channing
Membro del gruppo Fluxus, movimento neodadaista nato negli anni Cinquanta il cui concetto d’arte abbatte le barriere fra le diverse categorie artistiche (arte visiva, musica, teatro, poesia, performance e happpenings), Al Hansen è stato un pioniere della performance.
As a member of the Neo-Dadaist Fluxus group founded in the fifties with the idea of breaking down the barriers between the various artistic categories (visual art, music, theatre, poetry, performance and happenings), Al Hansen was a pioneer in the field of performance.
3 mar 1990 · 3 marzo 1990. OPENING 3 MARZO ORE 19:00. Studio Morradue. Via Calabritto, 20. Al MORRADUE mostra di Al Hansen, artista americano residente in Germania appartenente a quell’ampia area internazionale di ricerca che, a partire dagli anni Cinquanta, ha svolto un’intensa azione di deterritorializzazione del sistema dell’arte ...
Al Hansen was born in Richmond Hill, Borough of Queens, New York City in 1927. He joined the US Air Force, served his country as a paratrooper in World War II and was honorably discharged. During his time with the Army Of Occupation in Frankfurt, Germany, he pushed a piano off the top of a 5 story bombed out building.
27 giu 1995 · Al Hansen, one of the first Happenings artists and a founder of the Fluxus art movement, was found dead last Tuesday in his apartment in Cologne, Germany. He was 67 and had lived in Cologne...
Some of the works presented here were out-and-out hilarious (like a spoken-word rendition of Car Bibbe, 1958, which in its original form was a sort of demolition derby/dance piece for one hundred automobiles), others rather moving—none more so than Elegy for the Fluxus Dead, 1987, performed by Channing Hansen, who added Allan Kaprow’s name, and Hansen’s, to the rolls.
