BOOK / BETWEEN FURNITURE AND REAL ESTATE. Jimmie Durham

ARCHITECTURE

Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in the United States. He was a longtime member of the American Indian Movement and director of the UN's International Indian Treaty Council. He has been active as a writer, editor, and activist in various international artistic initiatives. In 1998, Durham was awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) fellowship in Berlin. Since returning to Europe in 1994, Durham's work has focused primarily on the relationship between architecture and monumental and nationalist narratives. He received the Günther-Peill Prize in 2003, the Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2017, and the Golden Lion for his artistic career at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Entre el mueble y el inmueble (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) is the Spanish translation of a text published on the occasion of the author's exhibition, Jimmie Durham, Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place), Berlin, 1998. The two-color book is illustrated with drawings and photographs of the artist's work.

“Architecture is not organic, it is not part of evolution; it is an invention of the State. I propose here the thesis that architecture, as the holy spirit of this ghostly and elusive entity called the State, invented chairs. Chairs are spies.” –JD

Title: Entre el mueble y el inmueble.
Author: Jimmie Durham
Pages: 104
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Weight: 160 grams
Genre: Architecture
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alias
Year: 2018