Splash Buildings

Sculpture in bright green with various globes attached. DENNIS OPPENHEIM: SPLASH BUILDINGS
Dennis Oppenheim (American, 1938–2007) was a trailblazer in the realms of earthworks, body art, and Conceptual art, had in the last decades made ardently manifest sculptures that present what he called “a parallel to the mental processing of a raw idea.” In Splash Buildings (2009) that “raw idea” is a sculpture that conveys the outcome of an event—in this case a drop of water splashing upwards, an ordinary occurrence taken to its exuberant limits, shown with the artist’s working drawings for the series. This is the first major work by this artist to enter the Parrish collection and is a promised gift of the Estate of the artist.