Jimmie Durham
©Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna
The Tower Was Equipped with a Glass Safety Shield, 2006
Sculpture
, 66 x 30 x 17 cm
Mixed media
On a peculiar tower made of sculpted wood stands a figurine protected by a “glass safety shield”. This piece, made for the exhibition Glass in Vienna in 2006, is a play with a material which according to Jimmie Durham, is “so hard, yet so breakable!” and therefore not appropriate as a shield.
See more of Durham’s comments about glass on the exhibition page and on a handwritten note from 1995.
