Installation, variable dimensions.
©image: Wilfried Petzi
Collection: Courtesy de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich.
"This piece began with a different kind of human craziness: the phenomenon of things reminding us of, or looking like, other things. Walking along, I pick up a stone. “This looks like a potato,” I say. Over years of walking around Europe, I have found a petrified slice of an apple, petrified pecorino, petrified pumpernickel, petrified cake, and various kinds of candy, among other curiosities. On the banks of the Po River, I found a petrified cloud." [full text here]
Add to your list> Jimmie Durham.
> Exhibition: Animism. M HKA, Antwerpen, 22 January 2010 - 02 May 2010.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées.... Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 30 January 2009 - 12 April 2009.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: Objects.
>Jimmie Durham, The Dangers of Petrification II, 1998-2007.Installation, paper, stone, variable dimensions.