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Dennis Oppenheim
1938-2011
An Operation for Mining, Elevating and Converting Memories of a Fifth Season
1980
Graphite pencil, colored pencil on paper.
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Gift of Amy V. Oppenheim, in honor of Dennis Oppenheim.
2023.6
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A pioneer of earthwork and Conceptual art, Oppenheim had a prolific career that encompassed performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, film, and photography. His drawings are primarily studies for large-scale installations and constructions, in which oneiric imagery and absurd mechanisms reflect the artist's interest in Marcel Duchamp and Surrealism. This drawing, which depicts a machine conceived as a metaphor for the human mind's processing of memory, mixes the precise draftsmanship of a technical drawing with the poetry of its subject.
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