Exhibition: Le ragioni della leggerezza [Reasons for Lightness]
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]
Media
>press release / text by Robert Pinto
>Untitled, 2004
WorksShow artists
> Jimmie Durham, Untitled (Apecar), 2004. Sculpture, stone, car, variable dimensions.
> Jimmie Durham, White Marble, Green Stone, Red Stone and Lavender Granite, 2004. Assemblage, cardboard, photograph, stone, 180 x 80 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Decorative Stones for Home, 2004. Assemblage, rug, semi-precious stones, 332 x 63 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°3, 2004. Sculpture, wood, stone, paper, 88 x 27 x 10 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°1, 2004. Sculpture, stone, wood, 70 x 8 x 8 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°2, 2004. Sculpture, stone, wood, 60 x 37 x 15 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Black Shale on European Wood, 2004. Sculpture, 90 x 93 x 51 cm.
> Jimmie Durham, Prehistoric Stone Tool, 2004. Mixed Media, wood, paint, stone, 75 x 85 cm.