Jimmie Durham. Sound an Silliness
From 05 Febbraio 2016 to 24 Aprile 2016
Rome
Place: MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Address: via Guido Reni 4A
Times: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday 11am-07pm; Saturday 11am-10pm
Responsibles: Hou Hanru, Giulia Ferracci
Ticket price: full € 10, reduced € 8 / € 4, free under 14 years old, disabled visitors requiring accompaniment, companions of disabled visitors, MiBACT employees, Lazio Region tour guides and couriers, 1 teacher for every 10 students, ICOM members, AMACI members, accredited journalists, MAXXI membership card holders; from Tuesday to Friday, free admittance for academics and university researchers in Art and Architecture* Free admittance to the Permanent Collection (Gallery 4) from Tuesdays to Fridays
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MAXXI is inaugurating its 2016 exhibition season with a show devoted to Jimmie Durham (US, 1940), artist, poet and political activist who for the second time will be presenting his art in a public museum in Rome. Known for his lyrical, at times Duchampian, ironic and ethical art, Jimmie Durham is a man whose talent is boundless, extending to the most diverse idioms, from drawing to writing, from unexpected assemblages to complex sculptures, from performance to video and architecture through to the thematic nucleus focussing on the narrative of a nation and on the links between political power and religious beliefs.
At MAXXI Durham is presenting two audio works and two videos, respectively recorded and filmed in Italy. It is his intent to tune his works to the museum space in the manner most fluid and efficient as possible in order to allow the public to enjoy to the full the sinuous curves offered by the architecture.
The works Domestic Glass (2006) and I rondoni di Porta Capuana (2012), created together with Maria Thereza Alvez, were both presented by RAM, Radioartemobile, the first in 2006 within the ambit of the exhibition Deposizione, the second on the occasion of the White Night in Paris, in the (Q.i. Q.i.) Les Oiseaux playlist; the two works touch on certain issues central to the artist’s poetic, engaging the spectator in a powerful immersive experience. The videos, in the centre of the room, are relatively brief and as Durham says “silly”. Fleur de pas mal (2005) is the action filmed in slow motion of a large stone falling into a container full of paint. A Proposal for a New International Genuflexion in Promotion of World Peace (2007) is instead a hymn to peace which the artist mimes as the protagonist in a silent film.
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