Dennis Oppenheim truly has lost his mind- and he loves it. One had better learn to handle some sensory overload. In fact, one had better learn when to duck Yet once one does, a small retrospective gets one thinking freshly about concept and process in art.
- John Haber
Last Dance, 1994.
Hard foam, nails, fiberglass, pigment, radios, record player, record,
cable, electrical cord, drum, motors, foot petal, spotlights, steel,
acrylic, trumpet, timers.
Dennis Oppenheim on art (1977):
Well, one of the wonderful things about art is an intermediate point in which expression can kind of congeal and solidify and, quite often in a way, it solidifies on one hand, it transcends the sender.
In other words, art can be greater than the artist. It can go higher than the individual who contained it.
Circle Puppets, 1994.
One of Oppenheim's best performances in Body Art.
Commissioned by The City of Leoben, Austria. Steel Pipe, grating, clear and colored glass, electric lights, concrete foundation. 30' High.
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