![]() ![]() Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven". One is always looking for a basic gesture in sculpture, economy of gesture: it is the simplest, most direct means to a work. He also was saying that "It's a very simple gesture that's made here, simply turning something upside-down. It was brought by the Glenbow Museum and the Torode Group of Companies to Calgary, Alberta. ![]() In the last twenty years of his career, he was systematically involved in public art and architecture, despite the fact that many of his versions of this public work were rejected or even destroyed, since he was depicting a typical American church of New England upside down. Quick Description: The 'Device To Root Out Evil' was the subject of a Calgary Herald Story on September 6, 2008. The drawing that is presented here entitled "A device to root out evil" is one of many preliminary sketches that he had done for the construction of a public art sculpture with monumental dimensions, with which he participated in the national USA pavilion in the 1997 Venice Biennial. This amazing art installation is designed by Dennis Oppenheim and is called Device to Root Out Evil and for me was the very best example of an upside-down building I could find, and the fact that it is balanced on its steeple is what makes it so cool. One of the most prolific and pluralistic artists of the world, Dennis Oppenheim, through many and different techniques (land art, performance, video, installations, sculpture), was always trying to bring art and aesthetics to their limits.
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