Institute of Visual Culture
Cambridge
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Tom Burr
dal 5/4/2003 al 18/5/2003
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5/4/2003

Tom Burr

Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge

'The Screens' will be comprised of black, fortress-like wooden walls with black iron braces. Arranged languidly around these will hang large, dark vinyl flowers based on the Warhol images; this will be a butch, brutal environment meant to evoke Genet's depictions of ruthless desire and unjust war.


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The Screens

Institute of Visual Culture presents 'The Screens', a new commission by New York-based artist Tom Burr, and the first major presentation of his work in the UK.

Tom Burr develops abstract, stage-like environments concerned with a critical take on minimalism, popular culture and social space. His theatrical settings seem caught between the certainty of the Modernist gesture and the illicit thrill of secrecy and desire. In Cambridge, Burr's installation will invoke Jean Genet's plays 'The Screens' (1961) and 'Prisoner of Love' (1986), as well as 'Flowers', Andy Warhol's extensive series of silk screens also produced in the mid-1960s.

Over the last several years, loosely appropriating forms from Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Robert Morris, and Brutalist architecture of the 1950s and 60s, Burr has drawn the icons of high Minimalism into new narrative frameworks. He creates games of cultural role-play, in which references to Goth rock, the films of Kenneth Anger, gay culture and Jim Morrison re-inscribe the authority of the Minimalist object and create new territories of desire.

'The Screens' will be comprised of black, fortress-like wooden walls with black iron braces. Arranged languidly around these will hang large, dark vinyl flowers based on the Warhol images; this will be a butch, brutal environment meant to evoke Genet's depictions of ruthless desire and unjust war. It will continue Burr's explorations of queer space, of the complex engagement between private and public space, of cultural déjà vu, and - like Genet - of social legitimacy. To quote John Coplans on Warhol, 'the garish and brilliantly coloured flowers always gravitate towards the surrounding blackness and finally end up in a sea of morbidity'.

Based in New York, Tom Burr (born 1963) has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Recent solo projects include 'Deep Purple' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2003) and 'Low Slung' at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2000). He has participated in several international group exhibitions, including 'My Head is on Fire but My Heart is Full of Love' at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen (2002) and 'Partnerschaften: Unterbrochene Karrieren: Ull Hohn und Tom Burr' at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (2001).

opening Sunday, 6 April 14.30 - 17.00

Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, and Sundays, 14:15-17:00. Closed Mondays.

Institute of Visual Culture is easily accessible from London. Trains to Cambridge leave from Kings Cross and take only 45 minutes.

Institute of Visual Culture is supported by East England Arts, Cambridge City Council, and the Regional Arts Lottery Programme.

Institute of Visual Culture
Fitzwilliam Museum
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Cambridge CB2 1RB
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