{"id":408,"title":"Le ragioni della leggerezza [Reasons for Lightness]","date_begin":"2004-11-18T00:00:00.000+01:00","date_end":"2005-01-22T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Torino","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/418/large/untitled.jpeg?1337603431","poster_credits":null},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"Le ragioni della leggerezza [Reasons for Lightness]","short_description":"","description":"It might seem paradoxical to use the title *Reasons for Lightness* for the exhibition of an artist who\r\nhas taken a small, three-wheeler [Ape truck](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2268) and weighed it down with an enormous block; or used a [desk](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2209) but replaced the work surface with a heavy slab of marble; or realised drawings almost automatically with the help of heavy falling stones. (...)\r\n\r\nGoing a little further, it can even be said that a search for lightness is an integral part, if not the ultimate goal, of all Jimmie Durham’s work, which is based on a constant and progressive subtraction of weight from the concepts, structures and prejudices that often constitute our culture and our ideas about art.\r\n\r\n[Fragment from Pedro Pinto's exhibition text. Read the full text bellow]"},{"locale":"nl","name":null,"short_description":"","description":"Het lijkt paradoxaal om de titel *Reasons for Lightness* te gebruiken voor de tentoonstelling van een kunstenaar die een enorme blok heeft gelegd op een kleine [Ape truck](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2268) op drie wielen, of die het werkblad van een [bureau](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2209) verving door een zware marmeren plaat, of die nagenoeg automatisch tekeningen realiseerde met behulp van vallende stenen. (...)\r\n\r\nMaar we zouden zelfs kunnen zeggen dat het zoeken naar lichtheid een integraal onderdeel is van heel het oeuvre van Jimmie Durham – als het al niet het ultieme doel is. Zijn werk is gebaseerd op een voortdurend en almaar verdergaand bevrijden van gewicht van de concepten, structuren en vooroordelen die vaak onze cultuur en onze ideëen over kunst bepalen. \r\n\r\n[Fragment uit de tentoonstellingstekst van Pedro Pinto. Lees de volledige tekst hieronder]"},{"locale":"fr","name":null,"short_description":"","description":"Cela pourrait paraître paradoxal d’intituler une exposition *Les Raisons de la légèreté* dans laquelle l’artiste fait poser un énorme bloc de pierre sur un petit [véhicule utilitaire à trois roues](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2268), remplace la table d’un [bureau](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2209) par une très lourde plaque de marbre ou réalise des dessins de manière quasi automatique au moyen de lourdes pierres qui tombent. (…)\r\n\r\nEn allant un peu plus loin, on peut même dire que la recherche de légèreté est une partie intégrante, sinon l’objectif ultime poursuivi par l’œuvre de Durham qui s’appuie sur un allégement constant et progressif du poids des concepts, structures et préjugés qui constituent souvent le fondement de notre culture artistique et de nos idées sur l’art. \r\n\r\n[Extrait du texte de Pedro Pinto accompagnant l’exposition. Texte intégral ci-dessous]"},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":209,"name":"Jimmie Durham","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/713/large/136-m.jpg?1366723100","poster_credits":"(c)image: Maria Theresa Alves"}}],"items":[{"id":865,"title":"Prehistoric Stone Tool","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/528/large/prehistoric%20stone%20tool.jpg?1313738128","poster_credits":"Courtesy Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2209,"title":"Black Shale on European Wood","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/558/large/3%20black%20shale.jpg?1313744556","poster_credits":"(c)image: Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2210,"title":"Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°2","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/825/large/JD_MISC_PHOTO_0094.jpg?1314704457","poster_credits":"(c)Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2211,"title":"Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°1","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/532/large/suggested%20proposal%20for%20new%20architecture.jpg?1313738753","poster_credits":"(c)image: Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2213,"title":"Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°3","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/826/large/JD_MISC_PHOTO_0095.jpg?1314704607","poster_credits":"(c)Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2214,"title":"Decorative Stones for Home","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/559/large/4%20decorative%20stone.jpg?1313744712","poster_credits":"(c)image: Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2216,"title":"White Marble, Green Stone, Red Stone and Lavender Granite","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/827/large/DSCN1476a.jpg?1314705339","poster_credits":"(c)Fulvio Richetto","actors":"Jimmie Durham"},{"id":2268,"title":"Untitled (Apecar)","date_begin":"2004-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/556/large/Img_0090.jpg?1313743874","poster_credits":"image: (c) Maria Thereza Alves","actors":"Jimmie Durham"}]}