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Article: Sam Durant. (Blum and Poe gallery, Los Angeles California).
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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BLUM AND POE
Installing a sliding-glass door to enclose a space beyond the gallery's reception area, a suspicious Sam Durant contrasted the workaday practicality of furnishings and building materials with the surface seamlessness of interior design through photographs, drawings, and sculpture. In his five-part sculpture Scrap Recycling Project with American Ingenuity, 1995, Durant attached a high-pressure laminate surface to odd-shaped scraps of plywood and particle board. The smooth laminate was carefully trimmed to the edges of the supports, and the pieces - painted either in the brown, yellow, and ochre "earth tones" of '70s interiors or in "bicentennial" reds, ...
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... ... and pessimism, is a rare dish. Sam Durant served up just that with four jaded ... steadily wearing away at culture. Durant's concern with these kinds of issues ... might call mediated entropy. In Durant's image, two live models, a man ...
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