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Item: White Marble, Green Stone, Red Stone and Lavender Granite

2004

Assemblage, 180 x 80 cm.
Materials: cardboard, photograph, stone

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin.

This display is a combination of text, a photograph and objects. It was made for the exhibition Le ragioni della leggerezza (Reasons for Lightness) in 2004 at Galleria Franco Soffiantino in Turin, Italy. It reveals us one of Jimmie Durham’s fascinations in his art-making process, namely the friction which can be caused when putting together language and image.

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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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