Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham born 1940 in the U.S. lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Naples, Italy Money, work and crocodiles (2012) Many people, several at least, thought that the backside of this work was better than the front... (2012) Road work and nostalgia (2012) Haegue Yang born 1971 in Seoul, Korea lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, Korea Floating Knowledge and Growing Craft - Silent Architecture Under Construction (2013) Frequencies on the Horizon against the Celestial Green – Trustworthy #263 (2015) Frequencies on the Horizon against the Celestial Blue – Trustworthy #264 (2015) Hardware Store Collages (2012 - 2013) Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Installation view of Too Long and Drawn Out at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2012 Installation view of Too Long and Drawn Out at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2012 Money, work and crocodiles Money, work and crocodiles 2012 2012 Installation with 16 parts Installation with 16 parts Crocodile skin, metall, wood, paper, acrylic paint, pencil, dried plants Crocodile skin, metall, wood, paper, acrylic paint, pencil, dried plants Dimensions variable Dimensions variable Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Installation view of Too Long and Drawn Out at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2012 Installation view of Too Long and Drawn Out at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2012 Money, work and crocodiles Money, work and crocodiles 2012 2012 Installation with 16 parts Installation with 16 parts Crocodile skin, metall, wood, paper, acrylic paint, pencil, dried plants Crocodile skin, metall, wood, paper, acrylic paint, pencil, dried plants Dimensions variable Dimensions variable Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Details from Money,work, and crocodiles acrylic paint on paper each 15 x 30 cm Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Details from the Money, work, and crocodiles Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles plant on paper plant on paper 24 x 32 cm 24 x 32 cm Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles graphite on paper 70 x 50 cm Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Detail from Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Money, work, and crocodiles Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Works Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Detail from Money, work, and crocodiles Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Many people, several at least, thought that the backside of this work was better than the front... 2012 Diptych, sprayed paper, glued on canvas, 80 x 89 cm Digital print, framed, 83 x 103 cm Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Galerie Barbara Wien ARCO Madrid 2016 Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3rd floor 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 10785 Berlin, Germany Booth 9 B 004 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 fon 0049 30-28385352 fax -50 mobil 0049 173-6156996 mobil 0049 173-6156996 [email protected] Jimmie Durham [email protected] Jimmie Durham Works Biography Biography Jimmie Durham is born in 1940 in the U.S. He takes his first artistic steps in the field of theatre, literature and performance in the progressive African- American circles in Texas in the 60’s. He works with the Afro-American poet Vivian Ayers and does a performance with Mohamed Ali. In 1968 he moves to the then very international Geneva, where he enrolls at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts. During that period he makes performative, sometimes sculptural work. Together with three other sculptors, he forms the Draga group which explores how art can become more integrated into public life. In 1973, he returns to the U.S. to become involved in the American Indian Movement, and remains politically active until 1980. He co-establishes the International Indian Treaty Council, is involved in the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, and is ultimately made the representative of the Indians to the United Nations – the first official representative of a minority within the organisation. In 1980 he returns to art. As an essayist, he remains concerned with the image of Native Americans and his art work from this period both reflects and thematises this attitude, although it displays both a broader reflective quality and a stronger visual expression. Typical examples are the works with animal skulls. Durham gains notoriety within the New York art scene, but finds that his work is seen as “Indian art” and fails to encourage fundamental – political or artistic – discussions. In 1987, he leaves the U.S. and goes to live in Cuernavaca, Mexico – where he stays until he moves back to Europe in 1994. It is a period with many international exhibitions. In 1988 he creates Pocahontas and the Little Carpenter for Matt’s Gallery in London; he has an exhibition at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York in 1992, and the work Original Re-Runs a.k.a. A Certain Lack of Coherence travels in 1993 from the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London to the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Kunstverein Hamburg. In 1992, Jan Hoet invites him as one of the key artists in the Documenta IX exhibition in Kassel. He creates a large ensemble entitled Approach in Love and Fear, consisting of several sculptures and texts. The essays that Jimmie Durham continues to write and publish in magazines such as Artforum, Art Journal, and Third Text, as well as in various books are collected in the 1993 publication A Certain Lack of Coherence, a collection of his essays published by Kala Press. Since turning away from the Americas in 1994 and permanently moving to Europe, Jimmie Durham has opposed two foundations of the European tradition: religion and architecture. Another theme that since has emerged in many of his works is his vision of Europe, which he calls Eurasia – Jimmie Durham sees himself as a ‘homeless Eurasian orphan’. In Europe, he has successively lived in Brussels, Marseille, Rome and now alternately in Berlin and Naples. His work has been shown in several international key locations: the Biennials of Venice in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005; in Marseille, The Hague and Gateshead (England) (in the retrospective filmFrom the West Pacific to the East Atlantic), at the Sidney Biennial in 2004, the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (in the retrospective Pierres rejetées ..