COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009331
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Work Title (display):
Überorgan
Image Title:
installation view
Work Dates (display):
2000
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-03-07
Work Creator (display):
Tim Hawkinson (American, born 1960)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "Überorgan"a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipewas pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting. Hawkinson's fascination with music and notation can also be seen in "Pentecost," a work in which the artist tuned cardboard tubes and assembled them in the shape of a giant tree. On this tree the artist placed twelve life-size robotic replicas of himself, and programmed them to beat out religious hymns at humorously irregular intervals. The source of inspiration for many of Hawkinson's pieces has been the re-imagining of his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body. In 1997 the artist created an exacting, two-inch tall skeleton of a bird from his own fingernail parings, and later made a feather and egg from his own hair. Believable even at a close distance, these works reveal Hawkinson's attention to detail as well as his obsession with life, death, and the passage of time. Hawkinson has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1999), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, (2000), the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (2000), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. Tim Hawkinson resides in Los Angeles with his wife. (Art 21 website
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Subject:
interaction
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interaction
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
senses
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senses
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
artists' materials
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artists' materials
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Work Subject:
time
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time
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Work Subject:
creation
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creation
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Work Subject:
animals
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animals
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Work Subject:
musical instruments
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musical instruments
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Work Subject:
body, human
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body, human
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Work Subject:
music
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music
Work Subject
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
woven polyethylene, nylon, net, cardboard tubing, various mechanical components, dimensions variable
Work Measurements (display):
variable
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Ace Gallery
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
installation
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-8109-4609-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
176
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Ace Gallery
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Tim Hawkinson
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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