Untitled/New human immune deficiency virus particles bursting from a microvillus

by Ronald Jones

Artist Ronald Jones (USA, 1952 - 2019)

Alternate Title

Utan titel/Partiklar av nytt mänskligt immunbristvirus som sprutar ur ett mikrovillus

Date1988

MediumBronze, sandstone and wood

DimensionsYttermått: 195 × 43,2 × 30,5 cm (76 3/4 × 17 × 12 in.)

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 1989

Countries

Sweden, United States

Object NumberMOMSK 142

CollectionsSömnlösa nätter

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThe artist Ronald Jones was also a writer, a design theorist, a critic, a curator and a professor at prestigious universities. His artistic practice was broad, embracing both sculpture and photography,and sometimes even opera and landscaping. Many of his works are politically rebellious in a subtle, conceptual way. In 1988, he created a series of works that, at first glance, look like typical modernist sculptures, with their soft, abstract shapes in shiny metal. But the title, "Untitled/New human immune deficiency virus bursting from a microvillus" explains that this is a human cell structure that has been attacked by the human immune deficiency virus HIV. The photograph 16 Isarstrasse refers to the address in West Germany where terrorists planned the bombing of a Pan Am flight above the Scottish village of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. The objects in the picture are from the plane wreckage.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Ej signerad Selected exhibition history Sömnlösa nätter. Från 1980-talet i Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2023 - den 14 januari 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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