Tom Burr’s work interrogates intimacy and what lies at the intersection of public and private… Circa ’77, installed initially at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 1995, recreates to scale a section of the Platzspitz, a riverside park flanking the Swiss National Museum in Zürich, as it might have looked circa 1977. During that period the park was unpopular with the general public, its dim lighting and dense vegetation limiting visibility and creating areas of isolation… Grips is a new body of work consisting of plates of steel, varying in size and shape. Some of these plates are secured onto the surface of others, while some feature printed information, and enact a play between raw and finished surfaces. All will repose on a ledge installed a foot off the ground, with the plates framing, overlapping and reflecting one another. Their levitation annuls the threat their weight poses.
Bortolami Gallery
