American sculptor, essayist and
poet Jimmie Durham will get this year's Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La
Biennale di Venezia - May You Live In Interesting Times,
organisers said Thursday.
The decision was made by La Biennale's Board of Directors
chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon the recommendation of the Curator
of the 58th International Art Exhibition, Ralph Rugoff.
The acknowledgment will be awarded on Saturday, 11th May 2019
at Ca' Giustinian, Venice, during the opening of the Biennale
Arte.
The Biennale's citation said "an artist, performer, essayist
and poet, Jimmie Durham (USA, 1940) has taken part in numerous
editions of the Biennale Arte (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2013) and
many other international exhibitions such as Documenta (1992,
2012), Whitney Biennial of New York (1993, 2003, 2014), the
Istanbul Biennial (1997, 2013) and many other group shows".
Besides multiple solo exhibitions at different museums -
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017-2018), MAXXI Rome (2016),
Serpentine Gallery in London (2015), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
(n.b.k.) (2015), Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2015),
Madre Museum in Naples (2008, 2012), Palais des Beaux-Arts in
Brussels (1993), ICA in London - retrospectives of his works
were shown at Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (2012),
Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2009), MAC in
Marseille and Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (2003).
In 2017 a new retrospective, covering the 70's to today, was
exhibited in the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York and the Remai Modern, Saskatoon.-
In 2016 Jimmie Durham received the emperor's ring of the city
of Goslar (Goslarer Kaiserring) and in 2017 the Robert
Rauschenberg Award.
Among his publications, two collected essays: A Certain Lack
of Coherence (1993, Kala Press, London) and Waiting To Be
Interrupted, (2014 Mousse Publishing, Milano); and two books of
poems: Columbus Day (1985, West End Press, Albuquerque) and
Poems That Do Not Go Together (2012, Wiens Verlag and Edition
Hansjörg Mayer).
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