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Tom Friedman
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Description
- Tom Friedman
- Untitled (Small Worlds)
- play-doh
- Diameter: 72 in. 182.9 cm.
- 600 individual unique sculptures
- Executed in 1995-1997.
Provenance
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Aspen Art Museum; Winston-Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; New York, New Museum, Tom Friedman, July 2000 - January 2002, p. 61, illustrated
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Tom Friedman, October - December 2002, illustrated
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Tom Friedman, October - December 2002, illustrated
Literature
Bruce Hainley, eds, Tom Friedman, London, 2001, p. 127, illustrated
Catalogue Note
Tom Friedman's Small World (1995-97) is composed of 600 hand-rendered Play-Doh sculptures. Tiny sculpted representations of hangers, combs, horseshoes and cardboard boxes are arranged in a way that resembles a miniature world exploding from a nebulous: the various objects behave like tiny particles belonging to a larger system. Friedman's small world is both imaginative and playful. Moreover, each piece beautifully captures the artist's re-definition of the object as ephemeral and worldly.