Jimmie Durham
dal 9/10/2013 al 6/12/2013
Segnalato da
9/10/2013
Jimmie Durham
Michel Rein, Bruxelles
Works of Science and Yellowness. The gallery is inaugurating its Brussels space with an exhibition of sculptures and drawings that provoke in us a desire for dialogue(s). Objects which unconsciously carry a story and/or a political reality close to that of the artist.
We
are
pleased
to
announce
the
inauguration
of
galerie
Michel
Rein
in
Brussels
with
an
exhibition
of
Jimmie
Durham,
who
we
have
been
accompanying
for
more
than
ten
years.
The
choice
of
Brussels
for
the
opening
of
a
second
space
was
motivated
by
longstanding
friendships,
close
relationships
with
collectors,
museum
directors
and
artists
but
is
also
linked
to
the
development
over
the
past
years
of
the
Belgian
art
scene
and
more
particularly
that
of
Brussels.
The
gallery
will
have
the
pleasure
to
initially
present
its
European
and
American
artists
and
to
offer
the
opportunity
for
Belgian
artists
to
use
its
space.
The
sculptures
and
drawings
that
Jimmie
Durham
offers
us
provoke
in
us
a
desire
for
dialogue(s).
Dialogues
with
banal
objects,
which
are
common
or
even
neglected
but
unconsciously
carry
a
story
and/or
a
political
reality
close
to
that
of
the
artist,
unperceived
at
the
first
glance.
In
fact,
the
works
of
Jimmie
Durham
are
indefinable,
cannot
be
categorised
and
carry
on
a
conversation
about
their
identity,
their
story,
their
“life”.
The
artist
invites
the
objects
he
has
found,
for
example
on
long
walks
into
his
family
and
into
his
studio,
plays
with
them
before
sending
them
back
into
the
world
in
a
new
way.
Jimmie
Durham
tells
us
“I
would
like
to
make
art
each
individual
thing
there
PVC-‐pipe,
metal,
wood,
acrylic
paint,
glue
is,
there
would
not
be
a
time
when
you
had
to
decide
to
keep
it
or
throw
it
away.
It
seems
to
me,
one
can
do
that
sort
of
non-‐dictatorial
thing
by
making
things
which
don't
have
to
do
with
craftwork
at
all,
just
intellectually
join
our
normal
physical
world.”
The
past
life
of
these
objects
remains
firmly
present
while
the
artist
suggests
a
new
vision
to
us
by
their
assembly,
their
“repainting”
and
their
interrelation.
In
this
way,
the
sculpture
Yellow
Higgs
Transmitting
Apparatus
(2013),
is
made
up
of
a
piece
of
piping
found
in
the
street
in
Brussels
in
1994,
assembled
and
placed
on
a
wooden
construction.
Hertz
Receiving
Apparatus
(2013)
is
made
up
of
a
television
satellite
receiver
repainted
with
“chameleon”
car
paint.
A
piece
of
wood
added
and
acting
as
a
emitter/receiver
fades
little
by
little
to
let
a
wooden
mast
of
human
proportions
appear,
extending
the
invitation
to
the
spectator
to
maintain
a
dialogue
about
post-‐industrial
artifices.
A
selection
of
drawings,
some
of
which
have
been
exhibited
at
the
monographic
retrospective
exhibition
of
the
artist
at
the
MuHKA
in
Antwerp
in
2012
(cur.
Bart
de
Baere),
complete
the
exhibition.
Jimmie
Durham
has
notably
exhibited
at
the
Documenta
IX
and
XIII
in
Kassel,
at
the
Venice
Biennial
(1999,
2001,
2003,
2005,
2013),
at
the
Palais
des
Beaux
Arts
in
Brussels
(1993)
(cur.
Dirk
Snauwaert),
and
at
the
Musée
d’Art
Moderne
de
la
Ville
de
Paris
(2009).
His
works
are
included
in
numerous
public
collections
such
as
MuHKA,
Antwerp
/
Centre
Georges
Pompidou,
Paris
/
SMAK,
Ghent
/
Ludwig
Museum,
Köln
/
Stedelijk
Museum,
Amsterdam
/
Tate
Modern,
London.
A
major
artwork
by
Jimmie
Durham,
Labyrinth,
2007,
will
be
acquired
on
the
occasion
of
the
annual
dinner
of
the
Friends
of
Musée
d’Art
Moderne
de
la
Ville
de
Paris
on
October
22nd,
2013.
For
more
information,
please
contact:
Patrick
Vanbellinghen,
director
contact.brussels@michelrein.com
Michel Rein
51A Washington Street B-‐1050 Brussels
Opening hours:
Thursday – Saturday 10am – 6pm and by appointment