Dennis Oppenheim: Body to Performance 1969-73

The European presentation of “Dennis Oppenheim: Body to Performance 1969-73” edited by Nick Kaye and Amy van Winkle Oppenheim, published by Skira, will take place at Galleria Fumagalli on December 13, 2016.
The volume provides a comprehensive account of Dennis Oppenheim’s radical art practices of this explosive five-year period. Providing a principal means of spilling his Conceptual Art beyond the object or the gallery to investigate “real world” and “real time” embedded processes and places, Oppenheim’s steps into performance from 1969 enacted the artist’s body as the agent, material, and place of art, and extended his work toward multiple spaces and times, including cross-generational exchange. Directing the viewer toward his body as the source and material of his works, Oppenheim’s procedures continue to critique the conventional material and conceptual limits of both sculpture and performance. This monograph follows Dennis Oppenheim’s conceptual performance works in slide, film, video, installation and photographic form from 1969-1973, including a substantial framing essay, a newly edited interview with Willoughby Sharp, and extensive extracts from the artist’s contemporaneous notes and statements.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | 6.30 pm

Dennis Oppenheim: Body to Performance 1969-73
by Nick Kaye and Amy van Winkle Oppenheim
Introduction by Alessandro Bonfanti and Emanuela Di Lallo
from Skira Editore
A conversation with Alberto Fiz and Angela Madesani.
The launch will include a screen projection of some early performances

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