Confessional Hair and Dirt on Canvas Piece

Jimmie Durham

2006

Sculpture, 185 x 90 x 15 cm.
Materials: Hair, dirt, canvas, wood

Collection: Collection Hunting Beheer bv., The Netherlands.

An odd piece of black-painted canvas (with hair and dirt, so we’re told) hangs on the wall of the exhibition space. It comments on his own bizarre existence, while assuming his status as a work of art since made by an artist: “MR. DURHAM MADE ME WITHOUT STOPPING TO THINK OF HIS ART CAREER NOR, I AM SORRY TO SAY, THE SENSITIVITIES OF THE GENERAL ART PUBLIC”.

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