Tom Burr
Stages
02 Jun - 23 Jul 2017
Tom Burr: Stages
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
Tom Burr: Stages
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
Federal Asphyxiation
black plastic sheeting, clear plastic bags, steel push pins, paperback copy of 'J. Edgar Hoover on Juvenile Delinquency: with Commentary by Michael Scott' (1946), powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
154 x 150 x 150 cm
60 5/8 x 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 inches
2017
black plastic sheeting, clear plastic bags, steel push pins, paperback copy of 'J. Edgar Hoover on Juvenile Delinquency: with Commentary by Michael Scott' (1946), powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
154 x 150 x 150 cm
60 5/8 x 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 inches
2017
Tom Burr
Federal Asphyxiation
detail
2017
Federal Asphyxiation
detail
2017
Tom Burr: Stages
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2017
Tom Burr
Sexual Soft Target
green military style blankets, black upholstery tacks, direct to surface print, clear plastic photographic sleeves, steel push pins, paperback copy of 'Funeral Rites' by Jean Genet' (1948), powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
9 x 240 x 240 cm
3 1/2 x 94 1/2 x 94 1/2 inches
2017
Sexual Soft Target
green military style blankets, black upholstery tacks, direct to surface print, clear plastic photographic sleeves, steel push pins, paperback copy of 'Funeral Rites' by Jean Genet' (1948), powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
9 x 240 x 240 cm
3 1/2 x 94 1/2 x 94 1/2 inches
2017
Tom Burr
Sexual Soft Target
detail
2017
Sexual Soft Target
detail
2017
Tom Burr
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
grey military style blankets, black upholstery tacks, silver gelatin film still prints from 'Equus' (1977), steel push pins, powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
184 x 180 x 180 cm
3 1/2 x 94 1/2 x 94 1/2 inches
2017
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
grey military style blankets, black upholstery tacks, silver gelatin film still prints from 'Equus' (1977), steel push pins, powder coated aluminium, painted plywood
184 x 180 x 180 cm
3 1/2 x 94 1/2 x 94 1/2 inches
2017
Tom Burr
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
detail
2017
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
detail
2017
Tom Burr
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
detail
2017
Regarding the Recent Attack on the Body (my aging blue bomber)
detail
2017
2 June – 23 July 2017, reopens 6 - 17 Sepmtember 2017
private view: Friday 2 June 6:30 – 8:30pm
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Tom Burr – Stages. For almost three decades, Tom Burr's sculpture, writing, collage, and photography have tended to focus on access, site-specificity, the confluence of public and private environments, as well as the constructed persona.
some notes:
And what of the use of the word ‘stage’, as a place within the progression of a disease. Can a social body be diagnosed in this way? Or a structure, like Marcel Breuer’s Armstrong Rubber building in New Haven - with its warehouse section amputated in an act not of preservation or of saving (the body from the infected limb) but as a slow removal of the whole? What of the removal of portions of populations, Red Scares, bar raids, holding pens and witch hunts? What stage are we at?
The platforms shown in this exhibition are meant to reference Robert Smithson’s concept of the ‘non-site’. They have a dialectical relationship to the Breuer building as a situation and an extension of the ‘body / building’ model I am working through.
The three platforms are related to one another. Like much of my collage work they oscillate between image and formal material arrangements.
Tom Burr 2017
private view: Friday 2 June 6:30 – 8:30pm
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Tom Burr – Stages. For almost three decades, Tom Burr's sculpture, writing, collage, and photography have tended to focus on access, site-specificity, the confluence of public and private environments, as well as the constructed persona.
some notes:
And what of the use of the word ‘stage’, as a place within the progression of a disease. Can a social body be diagnosed in this way? Or a structure, like Marcel Breuer’s Armstrong Rubber building in New Haven - with its warehouse section amputated in an act not of preservation or of saving (the body from the infected limb) but as a slow removal of the whole? What of the removal of portions of populations, Red Scares, bar raids, holding pens and witch hunts? What stage are we at?
The platforms shown in this exhibition are meant to reference Robert Smithson’s concept of the ‘non-site’. They have a dialectical relationship to the Breuer building as a situation and an extension of the ‘body / building’ model I am working through.
The three platforms are related to one another. Like much of my collage work they oscillate between image and formal material arrangements.
Tom Burr 2017