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Dennis Oppenheim
A key figure in several art movements, including Land Art, Conceptual Art and Body Art, Dennis Oppenheim has made works that range from a self-inflicted sunburn to epic landscape-based interventions and, more recently, violent sculptural installations.
Dennis Oppenheim
Works in the TATE collection
Dennis Oppenheim
The artistic trajectory of Dennis Oppenheim has always been characterized by its incorrigible discontinuity, motivated then as today by an intensely adventurous curiosity…
Dennis Oppenheim
Works
Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim has received international attention for a body of conceptual artwork that includes performance, sculpture, and photographs. In the early 1970s, Oppenheim was in the vangard of artists using film and video as a means to investigate themes relating to Body Art, Conceptual Art, and performance. In a series of works produced between 1970 and 1974, Oppenheim used his own body as a site to challenge the self: he explored the boundaries of personal risk, transformation, and communication through ritualistic performance actions and interactions. EAI is pleased to present a selection of these rarely-seen historical works, which have recently been archived for distribution on video…
Auctions & Auction Results
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