About The Work
Having emerged as an artist in the 1990s, Thomas Hirschhorn is internationally regarded as being one of the most important artists of his generation. Using low-grade materials—cardboard, plastic sheeting, packing tape, aluminium foil—variously combined with newspaper and magazine cuttings, mannequins, furniture and a wide range of other miscellany, together with references to radical theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and George Bataille, he has established an expansive but distinctive visual language with which he creates extraordinary, provocative artworks imbued with political content. This edition was created to mark Hirschhorn’s solo exhibition at the gallery, In-Between, 2015.
Courtesy of South London Gallery
About Thomas Hirschhorn
From The Magazine
- Art 101: Eleven New Art Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
- Art 101: More Than a Document: How Video Art Took Over the Art World
- Art 101: “Quality, No! Energy, Yes!”: Thomas Hirschhorn on Why Confrontation Is Key When Making Art for the Public
- Art 101: What Is Relational Aesthetics? Here's How Hanging Out, Eating Dinner, and Feeling Awkward Became Art
- Art 101: How to Make EFFECTIVE Political Art: 6 Rules of Thumb
A pair of used and distressed jeans with a Gramsci quote hand painted onto one side; attached to a black board
40.55 x 28.74 x 1.57 in
103.0 x 73.0 x 4.0 cm
This work is signed and dated by the artist on recto.
About The Work
Having emerged as an artist in the 1990s, Thomas Hirschhorn is internationally regarded as being one of the most important artists of his generation. Using low-grade materials—cardboard, plastic sheeting, packing tape, aluminium foil—variously combined with newspaper and magazine cuttings, mannequins, furniture and a wide range of other miscellany, together with references to radical theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and George Bataille, he has established an expansive but distinctive visual language with which he creates extraordinary, provocative artworks imbued with political content. This edition was created to mark Hirschhorn’s solo exhibition at the gallery, In-Between, 2015.
Courtesy of South London Gallery
About Thomas Hirschhorn
From The Magazine
- Art 101: Eleven New Art Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
- Art 101: More Than a Document: How Video Art Took Over the Art World
- Art 101: “Quality, No! Energy, Yes!”: Thomas Hirschhorn on Why Confrontation Is Key When Making Art for the Public
- Art 101: What Is Relational Aesthetics? Here's How Hanging Out, Eating Dinner, and Feeling Awkward Became Art
- Art 101: How to Make EFFECTIVE Political Art: 6 Rules of Thumb
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