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Item: Maquette for Public Monument for the Birthday of Rome

1995

Sculpture, 34 x 20 x 20 cm.
Materials: mixed media

Collection: Private Collection, Rome.

"So many poets have written that poetry “comes” to them. Happily, that happens to me with sculptures also. In 1995 Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev invited me to participate in a group event to celebrate the founding of Rome. For no reason I know about I decided to make a large interesting pile of trash. Carolyn needed a maquette for the catalog (or a drawing, which I can seldom do). I had no studio in Brussels but Maria Thereza had rented a space which I was able to borrow. The result is a miniature pile of interesting garbage that pleased me much. Carolyn still has it. The actual trash pile I made in Rome was so interesting that we needed a security guard to keep local people from taking parts they needed."[full text here]

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Jimmie Durham, Public Monument for the Birthday of Rome, 1995. Installation, mixed media, 250 x 450 x 250 cm.

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