Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition 'Concrete Islands' at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, November 5, 2016 - January 7, 2017.
Summary:
Concrete Islands, an exhibition at the Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, offers a poetic investigation into the intersection of words and objects. Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers's 1964 sculpture 'Pense-Bête', in which the artist took unsold copies of one of his books of poetry and encased them in plaster, it posits the question: where does language end and the world begin? Produced a wide range of media, artworks by Irma Blank, Alighiero Boetti, Henri Chopin, Jimmie Durham, Robert Filliou, and Jean-Luc Moulène, among others, follow in this vein, crossing boundaries between the immaterial and material, language and things, and concrete poetry and concrete objects.00Exhibition: Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (05.11.2016-07.01.2017).
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