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Empire is an investigation of sculpture. It features an image of the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg's New York apartment (reconstructed by the artist in miniature from a photograph). Each of the film's segments focuses on a different model that has also been painstakingly constructed by Paul Sietsema: Greenberg's New York apartment, a heavily ornamented rococo interior from the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, a translucent crystalline formation, a geometric matrix, a cavernous space modeled after a Louise Bourgeois work, an example of a sculpture by Jackson Pollock, and a still life of a grasshopper with its wings and legs mimicking the leaves and branches on which it rests.
Sietsema's play with exposure, multiple perspectives, and various filming methods examines the identification and experience of space on the screen. He extends the tradition of the Los Angeles sculpture of recent decades, which relies on the hyper-realistic presentation of reality.
Adapted from
Charles Wylie, Label text, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, 2003.
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Exhibition: Celebrating Sculpture, DMA 2003 (added to TMS)
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Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 2016.15
PROVENANCE
Until 2002: Paul Sietsema (b. 1968)
2002: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased through Regen Projects, Los Angeles
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The main source for this provenance is the copy of the invoice dated November 13, 2002, in the Collections Records object file (2002.56.A-B).
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General Description
Empire is an investigation of sculpture. It features an image of the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg's New York apartment (reconstructed by the artist in miniature from a photograph). Each of the film's segments focuses on a different model that has also been painstakingly constructed by Paul Sietsema: Greenberg's New York apartment, a heavily ornamented rococo interior from the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, a translucent crystalline formation, a geometric matrix, a cavernous space modeled after a Louise Bourgeois work, an example of a sculpture by Jackson Pollock, and a still life of a grasshopper with its wings and legs mimicking the leaves and branches on which it rests.
Sietsema's play with exposure, multiple perspectives, and various filming methods examines the identification and experience of space on the screen. He extends the tradition of the Los Angeles sculpture of recent decades, which relies on the hyper-realistic presentation of reality.
Adapted from
Charles Wylie, Label text, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, 2003.
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Notes
Exhibition: Celebrating Sculpture, DMA 2003 (added to TMS)
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 2016.15
PROVENANCE
Until 2002: Paul Sietsema (b. 1968)
2002: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased through Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the copy of the invoice dated November 13, 2002, in the Collections Records object file (2002.56.A-B).
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