Denver Art Museum in the United States this month acquired a work by Jonathan Owen: Untitled, 2015, as part of their permanent collection, through the generous assistance of an American collector.
Part of a larger series, the work explores Owen's systematic transformation of readymade objects and images. His sculptures begin as relics of another time: 19th century marble statues and busts that he re-carves into disjointed, destabilised versions of their original selves, in an attempt - as he puts it - “to subvert and puncture this familiar rhetoric, and so to reactivate the object through transformation rather than destruction, to make a new proposition."
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November 17, 2023
