JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE
Ensemble
This ensemble and digital application is an outcome of M HKA’s extensive long-term research in the oeuvre of Jimmie Durham and starts with an overview of objects in the collection. We guide you through the artists' practice and writings.
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Untitled
Jimmie Durham, Untitled, 1991. Sculpture, wood, canvas, paint, shells, 150 x 70 x 70 cm.
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The Center of the World a...
Jimmie Durham, The Center of the World at Middelburg, 1995. Installation, mixed media, variable dimensions.
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Language is a tool for co...
Jimmie Durham, Language is a tool for communication like a city or a brain, 1991-1992. Installation, ink, paper, 360 x 510 mm.
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Grünewald
Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Grünewald, 2006. Video, 00:13:55.
 
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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
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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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Objects
"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 @M HKA
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Writing
"But writing! What an invention! What a marvelous monstrosity! When I write I know that I am drawing. (…) As an invention, writing has replac
 
