Galerie Samuel Lallouz
Montreal
1434, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Bureau 200
(514) 849-5844
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Dennis Oppenheim
dal 27/4/2011 al 14/6/2011
Tues-Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 5pm or by app.

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Amy Plumb



 
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27/4/2011

Dennis Oppenheim

Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

An exhibition of works relating to the artist's Land Art and gallery practice. Seldom seen sculptures, photos, multimedia and a video installation that address a range of aesthetic, conceptual and critical concerns will be on view in this exhibition produced and co-curated by John K. Grande and the artist's widow Amy Plumb. Dennis Oppenheim: 'Ecstasy... Body, Art, Land' includes Untitled Table Piece, 1966 Void, 1969 Vertical Penetration, 1970 and Recall, 1974.


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co-curated by John K. Grande and the artist’s widow Amy Plumb

Galerie Samuel Lallouz is honoured to present an exclusive exhibition of works relating to the artist’s Land Art and gallery practice. Seldom seen sculptures, photos, multimedia and a video installation that address a range of aesthetic, conceptual and critical concerns will be on view in this exhibition produced and co-curated by John K. Grande and the artist’s widow Amy Plumb.

An icon of contemporary art, Dennis Oppenheim had his own way of doing things. As eclectic as he was, his art always took concepts further. Experimentation, a sense of the sublime, and a sculptural language that engages the public directly characterized Dennis Oppenheim’s public art works. Device to Root Out Evil (1997) with its upturned church steeple in the ground was exhibited at the Venice Biennale and is now in Calgary. This work raised questions about theology and art with a wry sense of humour. Extremely active recently in public art, Oppenheim has produced Reconstructed Dwelling (2007), Multi- Helix Tower (2007), Electric Kiss (2009), and Journey Home (2009). Pubic commissions in Canada include Still Dancing (2010) in Toronto and Pathways to Everywhere (2010) in Calgary.

Dennis Oppenheim explored the relation between body and land in his videos and Land art works. For Oppenheim, the early works were more specifically linked to taking art out of the gallery, a challenge to the minimalist aesthetic. Dennis Oppenheim along with Robert Smithson, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Jan Fabre and others, were developing a dialogue on scale, with space and the outdoor context as variables. Dennis Oppenheim took concepts further than Marcel Duchamp would have imagined. Just as environment extended the metaphor, enabled art to engage in an extra-cultural dialogue in a seemingly endless context of the land, so too Oppenheim drew on the land, and the body to extend the ways art was framed, contained, engendered by its interpreters. Distance was not just physical but critical as well.

In 1977 a Dennis Oppenheim Retrospective opened at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, traveled to the Winninpeg Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Key works in Dennis Oppenheim: Ecstasy... Body, Art, Land include Untitled Table Piece, Void, Vertical Penetration, Recall, and Octagonal Viewing Station. Works on paper include original blueprints for projects associated with his early Land Art period. Plans with the artist for this exhibition began in early 2010 and were continued by John K. Grande and Amy Plumb. For the 2009 Earth Art show held at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario curated by Mr. Grande, Oppenheim’s Spiral Scarecrow was as challenging and site specific as ever. Like some latter day Steinbeck caricature, these scarecrows wore business suits and welding masks (an allusion to nearby Hamilton Ontario’s steel industry where jobs were diminishing due to globalization). The Spiral Scarecrows were in Dennis’ own words, “devices to ward off predators” encroaching upon a field of produce, the produce in this case being cast away iron filings in spiral configurations on the ground.

When Dennis Oppenheim started out the art world was shaped by minimalism, and a limited vision, something Oppenheim in particular was to open up and expand. This gem of a show is not to be missed. As John K. Grande recently commented in Sculpture Magazine (April 2011) “The expressive forms Dennis Oppenheim has engaged in from decade to decade are now reinvented by successive generations of artists, an affirmation of the relevance of the reciprocity of body and space, the engagement of body in space. Oppenheim’s art is anathema to documentation. The echoes of Dennis Oppenheim’s take on the world will reverberate for a long time. Historians proclaim. Critics design. Artists like Dennis Oppenheim invent.” A catalogue with a major text by John K Grande to be available in the near future.

For more infomation: Amy Plumb
Dennis Oppenheim Estate
54 Franklin Street New York, New York 10013
dennisoppenheim@earthlink.net
http://www.dennis-oppenheim.com/

Opening: April 28 from 5 to 8 pm

Galerie Samuel Lallouz
1434, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Bureau 200 Montreal, Canada
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm or by appointment

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Dennis Oppenheim
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