{"id":12478,"date":"2011-01-22T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2016-07-10T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T20:51:18","slug":"dennis-oppenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/01\/22\/dennis-oppenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Oppenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gIW9FfWhErc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mvu2bqqjnvk&#038;feature=related\">Part II <\/a>(yourube) here.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisoppenheim.org\/#enter\">Dennis<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DennisOppenheim.jpg\" alt=\"DennisOppenheim\" title=\"DennisOppenheim\" width=\"398\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DennisOppenheim.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DennisOppenheim-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisoppenheim.org\/#enter\">Oppenheim <\/a><br \/>\n6. Sept 1938 &#8211; Jan 21 2011 -(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/fashion\/2009\/12\/armani_artists_s07\">photo via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His works branch in a number of directions, partly because they provide so little information. They are almost violent, almost failing, almost private.. In one sense, they are metaphor without specifc reference -&#8220;they point to&#8221; psychological strata existing outside of ordinary language. They betray thier own desriptions. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2868637.Individuals\"> Alan Sondheim &#8211; Individuals:<\/a> Post Movement Art in America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Received this sad news via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/02\/03\/alan-sondheim-f-lying\/\">Alan Sondheim. <\/a><br \/>\nDennis Oppenheim just died; he was one of the most amazing artists I&#8217;ve ever<br \/>\nknown&#8230; A really sad day &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Alan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-23-IdentityStretch2.jpg\" alt=\"2011-01-23-IdentityStretch\" title=\"2011-01-23-IdentityStretch\" width=\"614\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-23-IdentityStretch2.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-23-IdentityStretch2-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/g-roger-denson\/dennis-oppenheim-neurolog_b_812685.html\">Dennis Oppenheim, 1938-2011: The Man Who Made The World Nervous<\/a> by Roger Denson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/27oppenheim.html?ref=obituaries\">Roberta Smith<\/a> (NYtimes) in her obit informs us that he was once married to Alice Aycock in the 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His career might almost be defined as a series of sidelong glances at the doings of artists like Vito Acconci, Mr. Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Alice Aycock (to whom he was married in the early 1980s) and Claes Oldenburg. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiteboxny.org\/dennis.html\">Whitebox obit here<\/a> <> <> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/24\/renowned-alumnus-dennis-oppenheim-dies\">California Arts<\/a> <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Dennis Oppenheim<a href=\"http:\/\/dennisoppenheim.blogspot.com\/\"> has a blog<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisoppenheim.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/whitney-curator-chrissie-iles-in.html\">Whitney interview <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-oppenheim.com\/\">Dennis Oppenheim <\/a> homepage <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaa.si.edu\/collections\/interviews\/oral-history-interview-dennis-oppenheim-12924#transcript\">In Hawaii Dennis became a developer <\/a> and was successful as an entrepreneur in the early 60&#8217;s.<br \/>\n(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/03\/17\/hawaii-capsule-hal-lum-shoebox-sculpture\/\">Hal Lum<\/a> for this information and a link to &#8211; An interview of Dennis Oppenheim conducted 1995 July- Aug, by Suzaan Boettger, for the Archives of American Art.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And I think that my state was a state of mind that I harbored as a graduate student at Stanford, was one that is not unfamiliar today and found in lots of young people. The feeling was that art is what you don&#8217;t know. Everything else is art history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sol LeWitt was dealing with his systematic units of and his grids, and there was already a ray of material out there that one could think about. Smithson was extremely catalytic because he was writing about the real world. His writing was enormously catalytic, I think, at that time. I found that very exciting. There was also an article by Michael Freed, talking about minimalism approach in theatricality, which seemed interesting at the time, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>B: Did you ever read a lot?<br \/>\nDO: Not a great deal. Not as much as many people. What I found is that it got me too excited. I mean, stuff that I liked &#8212; it overly stimulated me. Like if I would read James Joyce, or if I would read or , or even poets like Charles or even people like Dylan Thomas who are odd, or even contemporary poets like Ted Hughes. And then books like &#8212; I like this Austrian guy who made . His name is Bernhardt. Thomas Bernhardt, who was influenced by Becker. And then some of the French structural writing. French and , and some of the stuff by American writers. Yes, Beckett would drive me crazy. I can&#8217;t even read him now. He&#8217;s so good &#8212; so good. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Dennis liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/01\/28\/thomas-bernhard\/\">Thomas Bernhard<\/a>)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<blockquote><p>Met Dennis during my time in grad school. He will always be perched on my<br \/>\nshoulder reminding me to be true to myself. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/robertgardner20102.jpg\" alt=\"robertgardner2010\" title=\"robertgardner2010\" width=\"410\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11754\">Robert<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/10\/10\/robert-gardner\/\">Gardner<\/a> -via email) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part II (yourube) here. R.I.P Dennis Oppenheim 6. Sept 1938 &#8211; Jan 21 2011 -(photo via) His works branch in a number of directions, partly because they provide so little information. They are almost violent, almost failing, almost private.. In one sense, they are metaphor without specifc reference -&#8220;they point to&#8221; psychological strata existing outside &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/01\/22\/dennis-oppenheim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dennis Oppenheim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-dennis-oppenheim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}