![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Opening Sequence (blue)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/653d0074b4d024b3955a05cbdb12638369ae7245-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
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)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/653d0074b4d024b3955a05cbdb12638369ae7245-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Elongated Frame](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/8394a6e2e7b444d6296bb9129ee8b512662079d1-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Elongated Frame, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Double Disco (detail)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/1fcefe5cf384285e16e242b2663712ba2c03ecf8-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Double Disco (detail), 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Stage](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/2dd73bc8c0a02831591f32eb3aa05208560558c6-4000x3000.jpg?w=800)
Stage, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled A Pair of Black Chairs](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/457d0e18fce77f9fbf8a07a9844b4eeb041d6657-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
A Pair of Black Chairs, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Pulse](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/ac426914e776f67826395013bcff009edcb96314-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Pulse, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Johns (my father’s chest)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/4146de2b026d27cf2b267486273449483829f538-1000x750.jpg?w=800)
Johns (my father’s chest), 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus I](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/c626cc45adcf1841881b772784b97a402c7b2536-5823x4500.jpg?w=800)
Capricornus I, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus II](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/3d0b27abac9df1a87089164c33fa181c428573f8-5823x4500.jpg?w=800)
Capricornus II, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus III](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/a5c9b7ccf1a26d5c019b136cb5a3124d96a6a5fc-5823x4500.jpg?w=800)
Capricornus III, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Capricornus IV](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/993409e453ee92d8fcb83156fde3a66f5e3376cb-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Capricornus IV, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Floor Model (adolescent)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/da6ab03f8a3b29cbde489a63a7d4d6189cf4a3da-4500x3000.jpg?w=800)