Dennis Oppenheim's guest appearances

Dennis Oppenheim

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Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art

Mémoires Vives / 30 ans pour l'art contemporain

Alain De Botton

Marc Jacobs

David Smith

Patti Smith

Louisa Buck

Michael Craig-Martin

David Shrigley

Richard Hamilton

Agnes Martin

Henri Matisse

Ian McEwan

Michael Palin

Michael Bracewell

William Blake

Melanie Smith

OwlTail

Dennis Oppenheim, Table Piece, 1975. Collection Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, acquisition 1996. Présenté par Grazia Quaroni, Conservateur à la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

Dennis Oppenheim - Table Piece, 1975 - Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemprain 

Looking back on the 1950s, artist Dennis Oppenheim talks about Abstract Expressionism as a sort of "scientific pursuit" that was solitary and esoteric.  It was pure fine art, created in a studio, as opposed to sculptors making public art in the real world.  In this excerpt from an interview conducted in 2009 for the Archives of American Art, Oppenheim talks about the tensions between what he calls "pure studio art" and public art.  This interview was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Dennis Oppenheim interview excerpt

Dennis Oppenheim's practice includes actions, performances, installations, sculptures, film and architecture. Seminal early works include a field harvested in the form of an X, Cancelled Crop (1969), and Reading Position for Second Degree Burn (1970), a p