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Item: Do you Say I'm Lying?
1995
Sculpture, 62 x 66 x 17 cm.
Materials: wood, canvas, paint, steel, sea shell, metal coin
Collection: Collection Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon.
This work was made for an exhibition at Galeria Modulo, in Lisbon, where Durham used for each object a quote from the book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago. Read Durham's story about it here.
The text on the artwork was written - on Saramago's request - in Portuguese, and reads: "Acha que minto, Não, que idéia, nós não mentimos, quando é preciso limitamo-nos a usar as palavras que mentem." [Do you say I am lying? Certainly not, we have never lied to each other; when precision limits us, we use words to lie for us]
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Jimmie Durham – A Matter ...
25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
In the spring of 2012, the M HKA brought a major retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham. The US-born artist settled permanently in Europe -
Jimmie Durham
25 June 1995 - 05 May 1995.
"Maria Thereza gave me a paperback of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago. I had not heard of him before, but the story i
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Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012
Jimmie Durham moved to Europe in 1994 and has lived ever since in Brussels, Lisbon, Marseille, Rome and Berlin, where he is presently based (
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"Artists now work with what is called conceptual methods and supposedly don’t use objects. But you can’t not use objects. A TV monitor is an
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