A Stone Rejected by the Builder (1), 2006
Sculpture, 34 x 41 x 20 cm (stone), 55 x 48 x 35 cm (table).
©Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / Thierry Langro
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Wien Lukatsch, Berlin.
The two pieces entitled A Stone rejected by the builder (1 and 2, link bellow) are stone blocks that have been abandoned by Arno Brecker, Hitler’s favourite artist, in his atelier in the Grünewald Forest - which many years later became Jimmie Durham’s own atelier. The act of painting it (here in flashy pink and green, and in the second version in red) adds to these objects a new dimension. They gain a new, lighter, almost childish connotation, in opposition to their heavy association with the Nazi artist.
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Media
>installationview at 'Pierres rejetées ...', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2008
>installationview at 'Elements and Material from my Atelier in Berlin's Grunewald Forest, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, 2006
Artist
> Jimmie Durham.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées.... Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 30 January 2009 - 12 April 2009.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Exhibition: Elements and Material from my Atelier in Berlin's Grunewald Forest. Barbara Wien - Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher, Berlin, 29 April 2006 - 01 July 2006.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: Stone as stone.
> Ensemble: Against Architecture, Against Belief.
Related Items
>Jimmie Durham, A Stone Rejected by the Builder (2), 2006.Sculpture, stone, wood, acrylic paint, 26 x 48 x 20 cm, 75 x 59 x 28 cm.