Dennis Oppenheim 25 March 2006 .3.25~5.28 프랑스

[Beaux-arts]

 Body building,2005

Dennis Oppenheim
25 March 2006 ? 28 May 2006

BUS HOME 2002
Steel, perforated steel, acrylic, concrete, paint, electric light
26' X 100' X 50'

Dennis Oppenheim, Sleeping Dogs, 1997
Private Collection, Genoa, Italy. Photo: Erma Estwick

Arizona State University Art Museum
October 22, 2004 through February 5, 200

DEVICE TO ROOT OUT EVIL , 1997
Venice Biennale, SIV Pilkington, Venice/Marghera, Italy
Collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Gift of Ginny Willimas
Galvanized structural steel, anodized perforated aluminum, transparent red Venetian glass, concrete foundations
25' H x 15' W x 12' D
Courtesy of Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Photo: Edward Smith, Venice, Italy

ENGAGEMENT 1997.
Stadtgemeinde Leoben, Erzherzog-Johann-strasse 2, Leoben, Austria
Arge Arch. Di. Domenig-Eisenkock, Graz, Austria
Commissioned by The City of Leoben, Austria
Steel pipe, grating, clear and colored glass, electric lights, concrete foundation.
30' High
Courtesy of Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria; Galerie Susanne Albrecht, Munich, Germany; Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Photo: Paul Ott, Graz, Austria

STAGE SET FOR A FILM 1999
Canada de Puente Duero, Valladolid, Spain
Commissioned by The City of Valladolid
Painted welded steel angle, opaque and translucent acrylic sheet, galvanized steel, vinyl siding, asphalt shingles, industrial lights, concrete foundations, rock
35' H x 25' W x 25' D
Courtesy of Sociedad Municipal de Suelo y Vivienda de Valladolid, S.L.
Photo: Rose Rongac

JUMP AND TWIST 1999
University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Commissioned for the Microsystems Building
Painted steel, galvanized grating, aluminum sheet, corrugated plexi, metal perforated mesh, honeycomb plexi, vinyl, motor
13' H x 40' W x 120' D
Photo: Guido Kirsch, Freiburg, Germany

DRINKING STRUCTURE WITH EXPOSED KIDNEY POOL 1998
Europos Parkas, Vilniaus, Lithuania
Commissioned by Europos Parkas
Painted welded steel, corrugated fiberglass panels, vinyl siding, galvanized steel, concrete, ceramic tile
30' H x 24' W x 35' D
Courtesy of Europos Parkas
Photo: Ivona Raimanova, Prague, Czech Republic

Revolving Kissing Racks 1990
Bottle racks, colored cast resin, electric cord, turntables

48 x 40 x 34 "

Combined Expressions galavinized steel1991

Malaria Hotel Lounge
Grand Arts installation 2000

Marriage Tree
Grand Arts installation 2000

Dennis Oppenheim

Born in 1938 in Electric City, Washington (U.S.A.), lives and works in New York.

From March 25, Galerie Piece Unique, for the second time, presents recent works by the American artist, Dennis Oppenheim.

One recalls that at the end of the 1960’s, he was one of the principal pioneers of “land art” and “body art,” aligned with conceptual artists such as Roberth Smithson, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, and Joseph Beuys.  Then by the mid-1970’s he made a departure, using a new vocabulary which led him to produce his factory-firework .  This break arose, perhaps, from the unexpected assimilation of avant-garde attitudes by bourgeois culture, which had an effect of neutralizing their subversive gestures.

The large-format drawings of a pictorial nature which accompanied this change are colored with oil pastel and are written over with words indicating materials, dimensions, and modes of employment found in industrial and architectural designs.  This feature may bear some relation to the fact that his father was an engineer.  Nonetheless, Dennis Oppenheim has always inserted textual fragments into his works on paper, and has used “surrealist techniques to put in play the stereotypes of the American collective unconscious.”

In numerous interviews, to describe his works, and its fidelity to conceptual art, he has affirmed that “he has not made mere objects, and that his coolly mechanized installations have made tangible the ephemeral thoughts presiding over the genesis of works of art.”

A large part of his recent works rests on aesthetic propositions pushed to the brink of the absurd.  Made out of accessible, everyday objects, they do not show “the groping trials and errors of doubt, but the confidence of an artist who addresses the inherent difficulty of representing complex ideas in a material form.”

For this new exhibition, at PIECE UNIQUE, 4, rue Jacques Callot, he has conceived a sculpture tower occupying the entire height of the gallery, comprising a succession of levels on which wax figures have been placed, suggesting sentinels whose shadows project onto the walls.

At PIECE UNIQUE VARIATIONS, 26/28 rue Mazarine, a series of outsized sculptures are displayed; the most striking of these represents a paintbrush reminiscent of a fixed broom, while there also various mechanical pieces.  A series of drawings, photos and models accompanies the ensemble.

BUS HOME
2002
Steel, perforated steel, acrylic, concrete, paint, electric light
26' X 100' X 50'

A bus transfer station at the Pacific View mall in Ventura, California. Dennis Oppenheim contributed the transfer station footprint and the 36' high bus shelter. Other public facilities, including seating, drinking fountains, bike racks and telephones were developed with a team including an architect, a landscape architect, civil and structural engineers and transit operators. The bus center's public art component was funded by the City of Ventura's Cultural Affairs Division.
Artists' statement:
"Bus Home is a shelter. The work depicts the metamorphosis of a bus becoming a house. This frozen animation of one image into another takes the form of a looping corkscrew entering the ground and coming up again. It slowly transforms from a bus to a house... For the tired and often alienated traveler the experience of waiting wished to be intervened by the realization that the transaction will be complete. The passengers will arrive at their destination. They will arrive home."
Photo: Donna Grananta, Focus on the Masters

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http://www.wbff.org/oppenheim/xox/biography.html