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July 1, 2009
Jimmie Durham Jimmie Durham: Rejected Stones Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2009. 232 pp.; many color ills. Cloth £ 45.00 (9782759600847)

Exhibition Schedule: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, January 30–April 12, 2009

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.64

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Jimmie Durham. Encore tranquillité (2008). Mixed media. © Jimmie Durham.

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In making art, Jimmie Durham sometimes lets his materials do the sculpting. As Encore tranquillité (2008) reveals, the forces he unleashes from seemingly lifeless objects can be startling. The work features an enormous rock settled atop the smashed halves of a small, single-engine airplane. Originally displayed in an old Russian airfield outside of Berlin, it was relocated to the foyer on the second floor of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris as...