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Attempt to Raise Hell - 1974

Dennis Oppenheim

Born in Electric City, Washington, 1938.
School of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (B.F.A., 1965) and Stanford University, Palo Alto, (M.F.A., 1965).
Lives and works in New York City.

The artistic trajectory of Dennis Oppenheim has always been characterized by its incorrigible discontinuity, motivated then as today by an intensely adventurous curiosity.   Following his earthworks (1967-69 and body-works came the installations (from 1972 onwards), using puppets as their main theme (the harrowing piece "Attempt to Raise Hell" at the Pompidou Center).   Later on, at the end of the seventies, Oppenheim produced what he calls his "machine pieces" which, by denying the object its sculptural status, are presented as complex constructions, systems open to both an aleatory and an enigmatic mode of functioning...   There is an interesting progression from the early machine pieces which seemed infused with a confidence in rationality and in the possibility of grasping the structure of the mind to the late works which were designed to literally blow up and which seem to celebrate the triumph of irrationality and chaos.

Art Press, January 1993, Dennis Oppenheim: A Process of Discontinuity, by Eleanor Heartney


Interview: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/oppenh95.htm



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Rocked Circle - Fear - 1971


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Two Stage Transfer Drawing - 1971


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Two Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State)
1971


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Two Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State)
1971


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Forming Sounds
1971


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Device to Root Out Evil
1997



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Parque de la Memoria - Buenos Aires  - Monumento al escape


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Table Piece - 1975


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Early Morning Blues - 1977


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Diamond Cutter’s Wedding - 1979


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Exit for the South Bronx - 1979


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Revenge - 1979


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Saturn Up-Draft - 1979


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Way Station Launching an Obsolete Power
(A Thought Collision Factory in Pursuit of a Journey) (A Clip in a Rifle - A Weapon) - 1980


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Impulse Reactor
A Device for Detecting, Entering and Converting Past Lies Traveling Underground and in the Air - 1980


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Crystal Recorder (Stroking the Throat of Tornado Diane) (An Early Warning System) - 1980


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Launching Structure #2 An Armature for Projection (From the Fireworks Series) - 1982


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Sleeping Dogs


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Object with a Memory - 1983


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Blue Tattoo - 1999


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Crystal Mountain - 2005


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Enlarged Object to Cast Light in Between the Toes - 2005


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Attempt to Raise Hell - 1974


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Spirit Notes - 1989


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Hot Voices - 1989


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Digestion - 1989


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Above the Wall of Electrocution - 1989


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Woman with Cubist Tendencies - 1993


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Village Around Piss Lake - 1993


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Galloping through the Wheat - 1993


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Blood Breathe - 1996


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Buildings Poking their Eyes Out


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Blue Collar


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Marriage Tree


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Lightening Bolt Man - 2001


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Brush Building


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Newton Discovering Gravity - 1984


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Impersonation Station - 1988


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Device To Root Out Evil - 1997


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Drinking Structure with Exposed Kidney Pool - 1998


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Performance Piece - 2000


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Bus Home - 2002


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Flying Garden


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Mobile Lighthouse


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Electric Field


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Reading Position for Second Degree Burn - 1970


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Arm and Wire - 1969


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Cancelled Crop - 1969


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Annual Rings - 1968


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Landslide - 1968



http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/oppenheim_dennis1.html

see also:
http://www.dennis-oppenheim.com/
http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=32


Interview: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/oppenh95.htm






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eternaline wrote on Aug 3, '10
Fantastic Dennis!
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