David Hammons — Harmolodic Thinker, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2019

DAVID HAMMONS Harmolodic Thinker Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles 18 May – 11 August 2019

Original 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.

Rather than conventional didactic content, Hammons reduces the text to two legible phrases — "This exhibition is dedicated to Ornette Coleman" and "Harmolodic Thinker" — 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.