Tom Burr
10 Mar – 4 May 2023
39 Walker

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Tom Burr, Installation view, Bortolami, New York, NY, 2023

Bortolami is pleased to present Tom Burr, the artist’s seventh exhibition at the gallery. The eponymous exhibition features new work and is accompanied by an exhibition text by Blake Oetting.

Once more Burr has assumed his dual role as artist and exhibition maker, relocating the act of making from the traditional studio space into the gallery. An architectural intervention of four walls defines the show, a deconstructed box whose contents have been scattered both in view and out of sight yet remain connected on levels of materiality, memory, biography, and history. Moving through the gallery, the viewer is directly confronted by Burr’s work, activating the artworks and the physical space created for them. As the interconnectivity of the different facets of the exhibition comes into view, not only here and now but in its connection to the entirety of Burr’s career, we begin to understand this as not merely an assortment of objects as artworks, but on a larger scale as a total artwork.

Works

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Opening Sequence (blue)

Opening Sequence (blue), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Elongated Frame

Elongated Frame, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Double Disco (detail)

Double Disco (detail), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Stage

Stage, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled A Pair of Black Chairs

A Pair of Black Chairs, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Pulse

Pulse, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Johns (my father’s chest)

Johns (my father’s chest), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus I

Capricornus I, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus II

Capricornus II, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus III

Capricornus III, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus IV

Capricornus IV, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Floor Model (adolescent)

Floor Model (adolescent), 2022

Press

Blake Oetting Blake Oetting on Tom Burr Mar 2023