This catalog illustrates the artistic practice of Tom Burr, an American artist whose work - photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations - revisits the formal vocabulary of the 1960s avant-garde, especially the minimalism and post-minimalism, and mixes pop iconography, homosexual culture, underground aesthetics, musical, film and literary influences, as well as contemporary architecture and design. These works articulate the issues related to architecture and public space and the issues of sociology, psychology, and gender politics. The conceptual investigation conducted by the artist essentially questions the way in which identity, in particular sexual identity, is constructed or, on the contrary, is constrained by society and its physical spaces. The artist uses the appropriation strategy of the Eighties, as it allows us to revisit works of the past to reveal different meanings. The artist thus reconfigures a story no longer fixed in time and space, but on the contrary perfectly open, which illuminates and transforms the present.

Author: Tom Burr

Title: Extrospective 

Publisher: JRP | Ringier

Year: 2006

Language: English, French

Specifications: softcover, 160 pages, 80 colour illustrations, 11 black and white illustrations, 237 x 286 mm