Tom Friedman - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Phillips
  • “Tom Friedman’s sculptural works radically modify our view of things. Small and fragile, made of mundane, frequently expendable materials, they evoke meditation on the interconnectedness of natural and industrial worlds, even suggesting that the human mind, body, and inanimate things are all involved in the same process of transmutation.”
    —Midori Matsui, in Parkett No. 64

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      Tom Friedman

      American • 1965

      Tom Friedman is a multimedia artist working mainly in sculpture and works-on-paper. Interested in looking at the thin line between fantasy and autobiography, Friedman often creates works that push viewers into a complicit state of witnessing. His sculptures are composed of a multitude of objects, and he assembles them in such a way as to transform the mundane into an intricate work of art. He combines materials such as Styrofoam, foil, paper, clay, wire, hair and fuzz through a labor-intensive practice that seeks to tell a story, whether about himself or the world at large.

      Friedman's approach to autobiography is not memoiristic. Rather, he takes the smallest moments of his life, like a piece of paper found on the street, and blows it out of proportion.

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Untitled (Parkett 64)

2002
Multiple comprising 75 stacked and glued Styrofoam cups hand-painted in colours.
103 x 7.3 x 7.3 cm (40 1/2 x 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Signed and numbered 1/75 in black ink on the underside (there were also 20 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Parkett Editions, New York and Zurich, to coincide with the publication of Parkett Vol. 64.

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