New York Gitli

Jimmie Durham

1985

Sculpture, 120 x 29 x 70 cm.
Materials: Skull, braid, acrylic paint, shell, turquoise, metal

Collection: Collection of Ines and Philippe Kempeneers, Belgium.

Jimmie Durham lived in New York from 1973 to 1987 and, after a period of exclusive engagement with American Indian issues, re-started making art in 1980. There, he made a few shows such as The Manhattan Festival of the Dead and A Matter of Life and Death and Singing, where artworks like New York Gitli and Tlunh Datsi were exhibited. These two pieces, both made with ornamented animal skulls, are works where Durham mixes American identity with a Cherokee vocabulary (gitli means dog in Cherokee).

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New York Gitli

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A Matter of Life and Deat...

1985.
See the exhibition folder in the media bellow.

Jimmie Durham – A Matter ...

25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
In the spring of 2012, the M HKA brought a major retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham. The US-born artist settled permanently in Europe

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Animal Skulls and Other F...

“On a long walk around the area of my studio I found a dead, desiccated crow. I walked on, and then after a while turned back. Along the way

Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993

In the period between 1973 and 1979 Jimmie Durham was full-time involved with the American Indian Movement and did not make art. He was the d

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"Artists now work with what is called conceptual methods and supposedly don’t use objects. But you can’t not use objects. A TV monitor is an

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Jimmie Durham