{"id":911,"title":"They Almost Fit","dimensions":"110 x 85 cm","date_begin":"2006-01-01","material":"wood","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":77,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Private Collection, Berlin","cached_tag_list":"mixed media, object","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"'Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées ...' , Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris, p. 206-207.\r\nWall piece.\r\nCurrently in the possession of Anselm Franke (anselmfranke@mail.com).\r\n\r\nInsurance value: 40.000 euros. Owner has agreed to having the work photographed for catalogue, press, tv and educational purposes. Owner has no special wish as to how the work should be listed. ","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":24,"permalink":"they-almost-fit","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"category":{"en":"Collage","nl":"Collage","fr":"Collage"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/003/519/large/they%20almost%20fit,%202006.jpg?1317989568","poster_credits":"(c)image: Roman März","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"“It may be that there are more similarities than we think in these objects”, reads the text on the upper half of this wooden panel. At first sight, *They Almost Fit* is a collection of various materials grouped in between them in a way that they do not exactly fit. The dialogue between these elements is created through the way the artist has placed them, giving life to otherwise meaningless pieces of objects with the aid of short narratives, metaphors, word-play and quotes from other authors and from his own [artworks](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3607)."},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"'Het kan zijn dat er tussen deze objecten meer overeenkomsten zijn dan we denken', staat er in de tekst op de bovenste helft van dit houten paneel. Op het eerste gezicht is *They Almost Fit* een verzameling materialen van verschillende aard, die zodanig gegroepeerd werden dat ze niet precies passen. De dialoog tussen deze elementen wordt gecreëerd door de manier waarop de kunstenaar ze plaatste. Met behulp van korte verhalen, metaforen, woordspelingen en citaten – van andere auteurs en uit eigen [kunstwerken](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3607) – blaast hij leven in deze anders zinloze objectfragmenten."},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"« Il se pourrait qu'il y ait plus de similarité qu'on ne le pense entre ces objets », dit le texte sur la partie supérieure de ce panneau en bois. À première vue, *They Almost Fit* (Ils s'harmonisent presque) est une collection de matériaux divers groupés de façon à ne pas s'accorder parfaitement. La manière dont l'artiste a placé les divers éléments génère comme un dialogue entre eux et insuffle vie à des objets autrement insignifiants à travers de brèves narrations, des métaphores, des jeux de mots, des citations d'autres auteurs et l'évocation de ses propres [œuvres](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3607)."},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":209,"name":"Jimmie Durham","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}