Invisible Surrealists : Sam Durant

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Installation view of Invisible Surrealists at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2014

Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Invisible Surrealists, 2014

Graphite on paper
34.625" x 24.75"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Transform the World, 2014

Graphite on paper
54” x 39.5”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1916, Shell Shock, Psych Ward, André Breton Becomes Aware of the Unconscious, 2014

Graphite and enamel on paper
22” x 30”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1918, The Art of War (French troops passing General Foch on their way to the front, Trenches on the French Front), 2014

Graphite on paper
Overall dimensions: 45.25" x 72.5"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1918, War is Over (Armistice day, Place de la Concorde, Paris), 2014

Graphite on paper
38 5/8” x 54 3/8”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Early 20th Cent., Now That its Impossible to See Clearly, Let us Try to Shed Some Light on the Darkness (Sigmund Freud), 2014

Colored pencil and graphite on paper
Overall dimensions: 26.69" x 145.75"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base, 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base (detail), 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base (detail), 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base (detail), 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base (detail), 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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An Ingression of the Superstructure Into the Base (detail), 2014

Found objects, light bulbs, plaster, wood, marble, steel, wood, MDF, acrylic, gauche
Overall dimensions: 65.5" x 56.5" x 57"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Les Armes Miraculeuses, 2014

Marble, wood, eggs, shells
Overall dimensions: 34" x 18.5" x 24"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Les Armes Miraculeuses (detail), 2014

Marble, wood, eggs, shells
Overall dimensions: 34" x 18.5" x 24"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Mouth on Paper (Jayne Cortez), 2014

Graphite and acrylic on paper
30” x 21.5”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1938, Mexico (André Breton, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Jaqueline Breton), 2014

Colored pencil on paper
17.19” x 23.13”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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There's No Such Thing as a Time Line, 2014

Archival digital printing, collage, graphite, color pencil and ink on paper, African Mahogany
170" x 35" x 1.75"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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There's No Such Thing as a Time Line (detail), 2014

Archival digital printing, collage, graphite, color pencil and ink on paper, African Mahogany
170" x 35" x 1.75"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1938, Freud’s House, Vienna, 2014

Graphite on paper
16.875” x 24.562”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Non-Vicious Circle, 2014

Powder coated steel, wood, artillery shell casings, stainless steel cable
55” x 49.63” x 41.25”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1959, 1938, Descending Ascending Stairs, 2014

Graphite on paper
43.125” x 25”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1959, 1966, To the Marquis de Sade, 2014

Graphite and enamel on paper
44” x 32.25”;
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Sun Filled Fountain (Leopold Senghor, Amilcar Cabral), 2014

Graphite on paper
26” x 40”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Enemy of all that is not Marvelous (Suzanne Césaire), 2014

Graphite and enamel on paper
28.75" x 22.125”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Men's Vices Are My Domain (Joyce Mansour), 2014

Graphite and enamel on pape
21.625" x 21.75"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1946, Santo Domingo, La Poesia Sorprendida de André Breton, 2014

Graphite and acrylic on paper
25.75” x 36.25”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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The Séance, When History Wakes Up (Frantz Fanon), 2014

Graphite on and enamel on paper
30” x 22”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Poetry Must Be Made By All, Not By One, 2014

Graphite on paper
26” x 40”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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'...the great game of hide and seek has succeeded, it is them because, on that day, the weather is most certainly too blindingly bright and beautiful to see clearly therein', 2014

Globe, acrylic
32" dia.
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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1937, Artists and Models, 'Eros and Thantos are Lovers as well as Adversaries', 2014

Colored Pencil on paper
20.125" x 30"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Another Surrealist Map of the World, 2014

Colored Pencil and ink on paper
55.187" x 51.25"
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Another Future Was Possible (kiosk from Mai 68), 2014

Aluminum, ink on paper
77.25” x 39.5“ x 39.5”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.

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Another Future Was Possible (kiosk from Mai 68) (detail), 2014

Aluminum, ink on paper
77.25” x 39.5“ x 39.5”
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert