January 23, 2019
Chris Burden, Big Wrench, 1980 (still)
This online screening is now over.
For more on Big Wrench, see Sydney Stutterheim’s essay on the brief but feverish obsession behind this work.
Presented in conjunction with a free public screening of Big Wrench at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, on January 18, 2019, in partnership with MUBI
© 2019 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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