Eleven Stone Parts

Jimmie Durham

1998

Sculpture, variable dimensions.
Materials: Mixed media

Collection: Collection of Dora Stiefelmeier, Rome.

Eleven Stone Parts is a piece first made for the group exhibition Indoor in the Serre di Rapolano in Italy. The stones presented side-by-side are in fact - or so we’re told by the text Durham has placed next to it - the product of a petrification process. Their labeling gives meaning to their form: they are pieces of petrified food: salami, pancetta, pecorino, mortadella, as well as sugar cubes and a melon.

One part of this setting is presented at the exhibition A Matter of life and Death and Singing, namely a marble case with a lid that can only be opened for 15 seconds at a time. Like in the installation Rocks Encouraged, the artist’s instructions impose concentration and complicity between the viewer and the material.

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