Photography, variable dimensions.
image: © Maria Thereza Alves
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Christine König Galerie, Vienna.
Jimmie Durham’s Self-portrait as Rosa Lévy makes direct references to Marcel Duchamp. Firstly, Rosa Levy (the inexistent character incarnated by Durham) is an anagram of Duchamp’s Rrose Sélavy. The second reference, the artist’s pose and mustache, brings us finally to Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q., completing the homage to the French artist and to what he might represent for Jimmie Durham’s artistic persona.
Add to your list> Jimmie Durham.
> Maria Thereza Alves.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées.... Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 30 January 2009 - 12 April 2009.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits.