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Item: Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline
1996
Installation, Variable dimensions.
Materials: Wood, cotton thread, print on paper
Collection: Collection Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon.
In 1996, these two pieces of weaving tools where shown at the exhibition La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Calais is a place where lace has traditionally been produced since the nineteenth century through a system of punch cards with patterned holes instructing a sequence of operations.
The text hanging above the pieces gives an extra dimension to the concept of this artwork, comparing the automatism of the binary lace-making machines (perhaps the forefather of the computer) with the orderly jardin à la française.
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La porte de l'Europe (les...
09 March 1996 - 28 April 1996.
"The show in Calais was about machinery, because the lace-making machines there are the ancestors of computers (They operate by a system of “ -
Jimmie Durham – A Matter ...
25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
In the spring of 2012, the M HKA brought a major retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham. The US-born artist settled permanently in Europe
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Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012
Jimmie Durham moved to Europe in 1994 and has lived ever since in Brussels, Lisbon, Marseille, Rome and Berlin, where he is presently based (
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