{"title":"David Hammons","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by David Hammons available at The New Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"david-hammons-harmolodic-thinker-xerox-press-release-exhibition-handout-hauser-amp-wirth-los-angeles-18-may-11-august-2019","title":"David Hammons — Harmolodic Thinker, Hauser \u0026 Wirth Los Angeles, 2019","description":"\u003cp class=\"_p_ua7qq_109\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDAVID HAMMONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarmolodic Thinker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth, Los Angeles 18 May – 11 August 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"_p_ua7qq_109\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal xeroxed press release distributed at David Hammons' first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in 45 years. The sheet operates less as explanatory material than as a conceptual extension of the show itself — dedicated to Ornette Coleman, whose harmolodic theory rejected hierarchy and fixed structure, and designed to mirror those principles through abstraction, refusal, and displacement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"_p_ua7qq_109\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than conventional didactic content, Hammons reduces the text to two legible phrases — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This exhibition is dedicated to Ornette Coleman\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Harmolodic Thinker\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — set against a dense field of hand-drawn, map-like lines. Distributed freely at the gallery, the document collapses the boundary between artwork and ephemera. Surviving examples function as both exhibition trace and autonomous conceptual artefact.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53041709646162,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/David_Hammons_2016_01.jpg?v=1774613071"},{"product_id":"david-hammons-invitation-postcard-lm-arts-new-york-2011","title":"David Hammons — Exhibition Invitation Card, L\u0026M Arts, New York, 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation postcard\u003cbr\u003e21 × 14.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock; black-and-white typography to recto and verso\u003cbr\u003ePublished by L\u0026amp;M Arts, New York\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: January 26 – February 26, 2011\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and faint surface marks consistent with storage and age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for a 2011 solo exhibition by David Hammons at L\u0026amp;M Arts, New York. The invitation reduces itself almost completely to a name. White letters against black ground; date and venue on the reverse. No image, no explanatory text, no secondary information. The design follows a familiar Hammons strategy: withholding rather than announcing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition itself marked Hammons's first presentation of new work since his earlier 2007 project at L\u0026amp;M and centred on large paintings and mixed-media works that partially concealed their own images beneath tarps, blankets, and weathered coverings. Beneath these surfaces viewers encountered fragments of abstraction — painting simultaneously revealed and denied. Critics frequently described the exhibition as operating between seduction and obstruction: beauty present but deliberately interrupted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe works pushed forward concerns already active throughout Hammons's practice. Since the body prints of the late 1960s, snowball sales, found objects, bottle caps, hair pieces, basketball imagery, and street interventions, Hammons repeatedly positioned meaning at the edges of visibility. In these 2011 works, concealment itself became material. A painting remained present physically while refusing complete access.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an object, the invitation behaves similarly. It withholds almost everything except a name. Read through a New Rare register, the card functions less as documentation than as a compressed proposition: the artist's name acting as image, announcement, and object simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"L\u0026M Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53547844141394,"sku":"HAMMONS-LM-INV-2011","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Hammons_David._L_M_Arts_invitation_postcard._2011_front.jpg?v=1779596810"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/david-hammons.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}