Le ragioni della leggerezza [Reasons for Lightness]
Event
Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporaneo, Torino
18 November 2004 - 22 January 2005
It might seem paradoxical to use the title Reasons for Lightness for the exhibition of an artist who has taken a small, three-wheeler Ape truck and weighed it down with an enormous block; or used a desk but replaced the work surface with a heavy slab of marble; or realised drawings almost automatically with the help of heavy falling stones. (...)
Going a little further, it can even be said that a search for lightness is an integral part, if not the ultimate goal, of all Jimmie Durham’s work, which is based on a constant and progressive subtraction of weight from the concepts, structures and prejudices that often constitute our culture and our ideas about art.
[Fragment from Pedro Pinto's exhibition text. Read the full text bellow]
