Jimmie Durham: Maquette for a Museum of Switzerland

The work of Native American artist Jimmie Durham (b.1940, lives in Rome, Italy) is manifold -- as poet, former activist, essayist, and sculptor he deftly mines the fields of art and political reality, infiltrating culture industries in ways that are both ironic and ambivalent. Durham's Maquette f... Read more

The work of Native American artist Jimmie Durham (b.1940, lives in Rome, Italy) is manifold — as poet, former activist, essayist, and sculptor he deftly mines the fields of art and political reality, infiltrating culture industries in ways that are both ironic and ambivalent. Durham’s Maquette for a Museum of Switzerland is an institutional-like setting questioning national clichés and symbols and containing objects, masks, photos, and texts by the artist.