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    Jimmie Durham

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    (c) Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/Thierry Langro
    Thinking of You, 2008
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 300 x 150 x 150 cm, base : 99cm (diameter)
    steel, aluminium

    "A couple years ago, the city of Brussels asked me to submit a design for a public sculpture for a traffic roundabout. It was an interesting project because the work should not be very interesting. The drivers should not be too distracted by art. We want them to drive carefully. I decided on a simple long metal pole with a branch near the top. A vulture is perched on the branch watching the traffic." [full text here]

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