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Jonathan Schipper’s Slow Room

5 Dec 2011

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Jonathan Schipper, Slow Room, 2011. Courtesy of The New York Times and Pierogi Gallery.

Jonathan Schipper's Slow Room

Jonathan Schipper, Slow Room, 2011.

One of the highlights of Art Basel was seeing our pal Jonathan Schipper, whose piece, The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle, is in our current show, AutoBody (you can track the destruction of the cars here). Schipper and his gallery, Pierogi, were in Miami for Seven, the offshoot progressive art fair featuring seven galleries (Pierogi, Hales Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, BravinLee programs, Postmasters Gallery, P.P.O.W. and Winkleman). Schipper’s piece at the show, Slow Room, 2011, featured an installation and video, in which the tightly strung contents of a living room — couch, coffee table, (player!) piano, mirror, knick-knacks, lamps — all the details of a life — are slowly pulled through a hole in the wall, and thereby destroyed. Loved it. I saw it on Thursday — wish I could have seen the final wrecked state.

On a non-related note: if you’re in Marfa over the holidays, stop by the new Cobra Rock Boot Company, where Logan Caldbeck and Colt Miller craft handmade boots, among other fine goods (be sure to also check out Logan’s photographs hanging on the walls). Just down the street from Ballroom Marfa at 107 South Dean Street, open Wednesday through Sunday, 12 pm to 6 pm.

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