
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


Elongated Frame, 2023

Double Disco (detail), 2023

Stage, 2023

A Pair of Black Chairs, 2023

Pulse, 2023

Johns (my father’s chest), 2023

Capricornus I, 2023

Capricornus II, 2023

Capricornus III, 2023

Capricornus IV, 2023
