Study for Appliance Spirit (P.A VII/VIII)

The indisputable leading protagonist of both land art and body art, Dennis Oppenheim has been an active innovator since the late 'Sixties' with his wide variety of art forms.  Performance, video, film, sculpture, drawing and architecture at times converge in his prolific, individualistic work.
 
The sculpture of the 'Eighties' (from which this print was later produced) is pervaded with a playful and violent irony while the mid-Nineties brought a focus on large sculpture situated in the public arena. –Artist statement