A Dead Deer, 1986
Sculpture, 120 x 72 x 14.4 cm.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK006913-003).
The characters in Ovid’s Metamorphoses change easily their appearance: from human to animal, from human to tree - the border between the two different beings is often unclear. Jimmie Durham uses these elements in works as A Dead Deer. A deer skull is painted with bright colours and attached on a thick branch as if it was the animal’s body; two real deer-legs are attached to the middle of the branch. These ‘dead’ materials form altogether a tree-deer or a deer-tree that does not really look dead, but instead seems to be dancing for us.
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Media
>Detail: skull
>Exhibition view
>Exhibition view at KMSKA, 2007
>Detail, exhibition at KMSKA, 2007
Artist
> Jimmie Durham.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Exhibition: Le Pont. Ville De Marseille, Marseille, 25 May 2013 - 20 October 2013.
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. M HKA, Antwerpen, 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Bornem - Gedeelde Ruimte. CC Ter Dilft, Bornem, 03 May 2014 - 25 May 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Diest. M HKA & Stad Diest, Diest, 27 November 2014 - 21 December 2014.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - The Bishop's Moose and the Pinkerton Men. Exit Art, New York, 01 November 1989 - 02 December 1989.
> Exhibition: A Certain Lack of Coherence. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, 30 September 1993 - 14 November 1993.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE.
> Ensemble: Animal Skulls and Other Figures.
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> Ensemble: Reflections on Cultural Complexity.
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> Ensemble: Against Belief, Against Architecture.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Jimmie Durham.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham @M HKA.