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A Matter of Life and Death and Singing

Jimmie Durham - A Matter of Life and Death and Singing
A comprehensive, generously illustrated retrospective featuring more than 100 works from all Jimmie Durham's creative periods. It contains major new essays, as well as new texts by Durham himself.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at MuHKA, Antwerp, in 2012
Jimmie Durham (1940-2021) is one of the most influential artists, not least for younger generations of artists and curators. Of his art he said that it “works against the two foundations of the European tradition: Belief and Architecture.” Sculpture, seen as the coming together of object, image, and word, was fundamental to his practice, but he was also a poet, essayist, and educator.
Durham's life as an artist began in the mid-1960s in Texas. In the early 1970s he worked in Geneva. In the late 1970s he was a political organizer with the American Indian Movement, Director of the International Indian Treaty Council and its representative to the United Nations. In New York around 1980 he turned once again to art. Between 1987 and 1994 he was based in Mexico, and thereafter in Europe, or, as he prefered to say, in Eurasia.
Edited by Anders Kreuger.
Texts by Guy Brett, Bart De Baere, Jimmie Durham, Anders Kreuger, Richard William Hill.
 
published in July 2012
English edition
24 x 31 cm (softcover)
160 pages (160 color & 54 b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-289-4
EAN : 9783037642894
 
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