Dennis Oppenheim
Hammond, Chris; Oppenheim, Dennis and Oppenheim, Amy. 2014. Dennis Oppenheim. In: "Dennis Oppenheim", Mot International London, United Kingdom, 2 April – 17 May 2014. [Show/Exhibition]
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Creators: | Hammond, Chris; Oppenheim, Dennis and Oppenheim, Amy |
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Abstract or Description: | MOTINTERNATIONAL London are pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Dennis Oppenheim. Having first worked with the artist in 2006, the gallery has represented Oppenheim since 2012. The performance Ground Gel, 1972 was recorded in 35 mm slides and still photography. Installed as a slide dissolve projection with sound and later transferred to video, the work was additionally produced as a photographic documentation. This exhibition will present both the video installation and photodocumentation form of the project. Ground Gel records the disappearance of the artist and his daughter Chandra, as he spins her at arm’s length. The birds-eye images of Ground Gel diagrammatically map motion. Crucially, the work enacts an exchange of catalytic energy in which Oppenheim exceeds the actual material boundaries of his own singular form. As they disappear into each other, Chandra becomes an extension of the artist as she is projected past him in time and space. Similarly produced as both a slide dissolve installation and video, Go-Between (1972) is presented on two monitors. Here, exchanges of action are made further explicit. In what first appears to be a playful family scuffle, Dennis and Phyllis Oppenheim place themselves between two of their children, receiving blows which the siblings aim at each other. Oppenheim describes how “by acting as go-betweens for their aggression, we experience them directly, as if we were inside their bodies.” As passive recipients of the assailment, the adults become an intersection for their children’s blows. A key figure of American Conceptual Art, Dennis Oppenheim was born in 1938 in Electric City, Washington. From 1966 until his death in 2011, he lived and worked in New York City. During these four decades Dennis Oppenheim’s practice employed all available methods: writing, action, performance, video, film, photography, and installation. |
Official URL: | http://web.archive.org/web/20150610053532/http://w... |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art |
Date range: | 2 April – 17 May 2014 |
Related URL: | https://wsimag.com/art/8660-dennis-oppenheim |
Event Location: | Mot International London, United Kingdom |
Item ID: | 21431 |
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2017 17:08 |
Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2020 16:37 |
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