Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012
Ensemble
Jimmie Durham moved to Europe in 1994 and has lived ever since in Brussels, Lisbon, Marseille, Rome and Berlin, where he is presently based (2012). Since then, Durham has been working with a series of projects focusing on themes such as architecture and national narratives. Stone has also been strongly present in Durham’s work as a material as well as a tool, often as an anti-architectural and anti-monumental statement.
He has continued exhibiting worldwide, also taking part in major events such as the Venice Biennale and will exhibit once more at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in the summer of 2012. In May 2012 Durham’s work is presented in his largest retrospective to this date at the M HKA in the exhibition Jimmie Durham. A Matter of Life and Death and Singing.
Items
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Paradigm for an Arch
Jimmie Durham, Paradigm for an Arch, 1994. Sculpture, pvc pipe, wood, papier maché, horn, paper, polystyrene, cloth, 308 x 215 x 20 cm.
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Decorative Stones for Home
Jimmie Durham, Decorative Stones for Home, 2004. Assemblage, rug, semi-precious stones, 332 x 63 cm.
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Self-Portrait Pretending ...
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be my Mother as Played by Isabel Perera, 2006. Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions.
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Red Handle
Jimmie Durham, Red Handle, 2007. Mixed Media, mixed media sculpture with sound: glass, 95 x 105 x 92 cm.
Actors
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in Ne