A Piece of Granite Shaped like a Camel's Head

Jimmie Durham

2006

Sculpture, 36 x 23 x 15 cm.
Materials: Red granite, glass

Collection: Collection Prof. Mr. Egbert J. Dommering, The Netherlands.

Jimmie Durham finds objects and materials and uses them to makes associations, transforming them into something else. The artist’s gesture, like Duchamp’s signature on the urinal (often mentioned by the Durham in his texts), converts these found elements - here a piece of stone whose shape could resemble a camel’s head - into artworks. It is a “kind of human craziness”, describes Durham, ”the phenomenon of things reminding us of, or looking like, other things.”[full text here]

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Jimmie Durham - Bestiary

06 September 2006 - 07 October 2006.
In the middle-ages, a Bestiary was a collection of tales about the curious nature of animals, and sometimes also of plants and stones. In man

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

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Stone as stone

Most of nature is stone; stone is everywhere. However, presenting stones as art is something else. “Well, you have to help stones”, says Jimm

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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