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Item: Perhaps Mr. Palomar

Jimmie Durham

2003

Sculpture, 21 x 12 x 12 cm.
Materials: grey granite, acrylic paint

Collection: Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

At first sight, Mr Palomar is another one of Jimmie Durham’s stones that has gained subjectivity though a gesture of the artist. But the title takes us a lot further: Mr Palomar is in fact the name of the main character of a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino (who Durham has also mentioned in other artworks). Throughout the book, Mr Palomar makes philosophical comments about the world around him such as speculations about the cosmos, time and the true nature of being as well as observations about anthropological and cultural issues.

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