Jimmie Durham
(c)image: Gert Jan van Rooij
A Piece of Concrete Wearing a Stone Mask and a Necktie, 1999
Sculpture
, 93 x 34 x 18 cm
Mixed media
A piece of concrete, standing behind a colourful mask and wearing a flower-printed necktie, remains a piece of concrete. Jimmie Durham plays here with the incongruity of a piece of anonymous material made into a subject with personality by adding to it “human” props but always reminding us, through the use of language, of what we are really looking at.