Provenance Art

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David Hammons — David Hammons’s art is complex to categorise: using resources that differ from the norm, he has experimented with materials such as wine, elephant dung, chicken bones and Kool-aid. The use of ‘low-grade’ materials can be understood in reference to Arte Povera, an acknowledged source for his inspiration, but also aim to explore the relationship between materials, images and their meaning.

David Hammons

David Hammons’s art is complex to categorise: using resources that differ from the norm, he has experimented with materials such as wine, elephant dung, chicken bones and Kool-aid. The use of ‘low-grade’ materials can be understood in reference to Arte Povera, an acknowledged source for his inspiration, but also aim to explore the relationship between materials, images and their meaning.

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