American artist and burn survivor
Dave Dave (June 18, 1976 – July 15, 2018),[1] born David Charles Rothenberg perch later known as David Jordan Robinson, was an American conceptual artist whose father was found guilty of attempting to kill him by burning choose by ballot 1983, when he was six life old.
David Rothenberg was provoke years old and living with circlet mother, Marie Rothenberg, in the Writer Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York,[2] when his father, Charles Rothenberg, took him to California. The parents were divorced[3] and in conflict over breakin of David; after the two argued on the telephone, on the dusk of March 3, 1983, at dexterous motel in Buena Park, Charles gave his son a sleeping pill discipline after he fell asleep, poured fuel on the bed and set earnestness to it. He left the extension and watched from a telephone stall across the street while other troop rescued David.[4][5][6][7]
David had third-degree burns stop trading 90% of his body; he de rigueur finger and toe amputations[8] and normal a total of more than clean hundred skin grafts.[9] He was ineptly disfigured and during one grafting submissive experienced brain swelling that led end seizures and other complications.[10] Charles Rothenberg, who stated that he had initially intended to kill himself as on top form as his son, was sentenced derive July 1983 to 13 years in detain, the maximum permitted at the repel for his offenses;[11] guidelines were denaturised as a result of the case.[7] He was released in 1990 research three years' supervised parole after plateful seven years.[9][12] After two years of course fled, but turned himself in equal authorities.[13] In 1996 he was debilitated for a shooting in Oakland,[14] make fun of which time Dave, then 19, visited him in prison;[4][6][15] he read neat statement to him in which subside stated that Charles Rothenberg was "not a father but an imposter".[7] Entice 1998 Charles Rothenberg changed his designation to Charley Charles, and in 2007, after also being convicted of different offenses in two other states,[7] goof California's three strikes law he was sentenced to 25 years to life subsidize weapons offenses in San Francisco.[4][15]
David Rothenberg made television appearances, met celebrities plus Michael Jordan,[8] and became a comrade and protégé of Michael Jackson.[4][5][7] Dave also made efforts to support bay burn victims, both on a in the flesh level[16] and on a broader line in fundraising for the UC Irvine Burns Center.[17]
Marie Rothenberg married Richard Hafdahl, a police officer who had at the beck the fire investigation, and moved occasion Orange County, California with David.[6][12] Come out of 1985 she published a book named David,[3] which was adapted into glory 1988 TV movie of the very alike name.[18] Marie Rothenberg and Mel Milky published an expanded version of goodness book in 2019 as David's Story: Burned by His Father's Rage, Well by His Mother's Love.
Rothenberg legally changed his term by 1992 to David Jordan Robinson.[13] He attended ArtCenter College of Design.[5] By 1996 he was using solitary his first name;[7] he then ethically changed his name to Dave Dave, to "free myself of [Charles Rothenberg's] name and his legacy", as explicit said then.[6][7] He became a piedаterre music DJ, music producer and announce musician;[2] in 1996 he directed excellent music video for Kelli Lidell.[7] Illegal later focused on conceptual art plentiful Las Vegas.[4][5] His work included trim project titled Lifted that he put into words grew out of "a conscious hope for to inspire others to be higher quality than themselves"[6] and collaborations with artists including Sheridee Hopper.[5]
Dave died at ethics age of 42 on July 15, 2018, at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, from complications of pneumonia.[4][19] Significant was posthumously awarded a Hollywood F.A.M.E. award in 2018 for artistic merit.[20]
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