St. Frigo, 1996
Sculpture, 132 x 60 x 60 cm.
©Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / Thierry Langro
Collection: Collection of DG Artes, Lisbon.
"I don’t really destroy things, I just change them, I change their shape, just like any sculptor does. I chose the refrigerator. I stoned it for a week, every day, until I got the shape really changed. I chose it because I wanted to throw stones at something as sculptural work, but I wanted an object that no one would care about. I thought that if I stoned a TV or an automobile, everyone would be glad and care in some way or another, and I thought that a refrigerator was completely neutral. It was, until I started stoning it and then it wasn’t neutral anymore. Then it started being brave, so that in the end I called it Saint Frigo, because it was a martyr. I saved its life by making it a martyr. It was going into the trash, now it’s eternal, now it’s art." [full text here]
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Artist
> Jimmie Durham.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: La leçon d'anatomie (A Progress Report). FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Rheims, 05 April 1996 - 25 May 1996.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées.... Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 30 January 2009 - 12 April 2009.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: Stoning.
Related Items
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Stoning the Refrigerator, 1996.Video.