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About Tom Burr's Paintings and Solo Exhibitions by Saatchi-Gallery

Tom Burr was born on 1963 in New Haven, Lives and works in New York. Conceptually oriented artists tend to be either obsessed or dismissive towards the objects they use. In most cases somebody else produces the work for them using standard industrial materials. The function of these objects is often descriptive, illustrating of a set of ideas expressed more accurately by textual means. The ideological value of the present or absent texts is mainly to justify the uninteresting objects in their expository function which are as quickly to be interchangeable as produced.

This explains why artists who pursue these strategies run the easy risk of ending up arrogant, cynical, arbitrary and formalist in their object choice and presentation. To be informed by an analytical and critical approach often doesn't change this trap. Previous shows by AFA and others have exemplified these failures.

A more satisfying relationship between text and objects is "staged" right now with the works of Tom Burr. Very well written texts address the social, architectural, and psychological space of the fluorescent, mirrored 42nd street milieu that one finds all over the "peep showed" world. The short instructive texts ("blue movies", "blue laws", "peep scumatrium" ...) open up a rich conceptual parenthesis which the artist filled with a series of uncompleted light interior short hand architecture in varying sizes.

These wooden models fulfill in their simplicity not just the function of restaging these more masculine interior worlds (i. e. a very psychological environment of unfulfilled canned desires), but also play with the vocabulary of minimal art. The game with minimalism is very hot these days but only few know how to play this card that most artists fail at completely.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006

The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, curated by Jack Pierson
Warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig

2005

HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Strasse 7, Berlin
Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin
EXILE New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
Residence, MICA Foundation, New York
2004

Trafic d'influence: Art & Design, Collection Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque
Election, American Fine Art, Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
When the lights go out..., Cohan & Leslie, New York
The Future Has a Silver Lining, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Braunschweig Parcours 2004, Braunschweig
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London
It's all an Illusion, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

2003

Le Rayon Noir, Circuit-Assossiation d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne
New Space! Group Show!, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin

2002

Grey Gardens, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, Charlottenborg Udstillings-bygning, Copenhagen
Xeros, Ecole du Magasin, Center National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble

2001

Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Parttnerschaften Unterbrochene Karrieren, Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
American Fine Arts, New York

2000

Quiet Life, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, curated by Michael Neff
Sightings, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak
Space Open 2000, Space studios, London

1998

Model, Galerie Belvedere, Wien, Austria
I Hate Movies , Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, curated by Tom Borgese
Parasite , The Drawing Center , New York

1997

Sans Titre, Froment + Putman, Paris

1996

Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
American Fine Arts, New York
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Gramercy International Art Fair, New York

1995

Birgit Kung, Zurich
Architectures of Display with architect Toshiko Mori, organised by Minetta Brook, New York
Platzwechsel (with Ursula Biemann, Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Muller), Kunsthalle Zurich und Schweizer National- museum, Zurich
Mapping: A Response to MOMA, American Fine Arts, New York

1994

Lace, Los Angeles, California
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1993

Kontext Kunst, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Austria
What Happened to the Institutional Critique, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Arts, New York
Social Subjects, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sonsbeek 93, Arnheim, Netherlands
Project Untie, Firminy, France

1992

White Colums, New York
American Fine Arts, New York

1989

Paula Allen Gallery, New York
American Fine Arts, New York

1988

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

Conclusions:
Tom Burr written texts address the social, architectural, and psychological space of the fluorescent, mirrored 42nd street milieu that one finds all over the "peep showed" world. These objects are often descriptive, illustrating of a set of ideas expressed more accurately by textual means.

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