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Desert NowIn collaboration with Julian Charrière and Felix Kiessling | Steve Turner, Los Angeles, 2016

Joe is Dead, 2016 (installation video)

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Installation view ‘Desert Now’, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, 2016


In Desert Now the artists Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière and Felix Kiessling transform the space of Steve Turner gallery into a dystopian museum, surveying the strange panorama of Southwestern imagery in its many charms and contradictions. While the array of pieces on display focus on the American desert, Desert Now is also a playful engagement with modernism’s impact on the built environment and the legacy of Land Art.


From sand dune and atom bomb to gift shop and washroom, the exhibition takes the form of an eccentric collection, whose displays alternate between kitsch, infotainment, the provocative, the profane, and the pedagogical. Charting a path between the profound and the absurd, Desert Now also invites reflection on the history of marketing nature.



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Installation view ‘Desert Now’, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, 2016

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ATROCITY EXHIBITION, 2016 | 3D printed house, sand, distilled water in glass; Ed. of 30, each 14 x 12,7 x 12,7 cm

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OPERATIONS, 2016 | copper, brass, steel and aluminium cylinders with pyroblast-c residue

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OPERATIONS, 2016 | copper, brass, steel and aluminium cylinders
 with pyroblast-c residue


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OPERATIONS, 2016 | copper, brass, steel and aluminium cylinders
 with pyroblast-c residue


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OPERATIONS, 2016 (detail) | brass cylinder and pyroblast-c residue

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OPERATIONS, 2016 (detail) | brass cylinder and pyroblast-c residue

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Installation view ‘Desert Now’, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, 2016

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Desert Now, in collaboration with Julian Charrière and Felix Kiessling, Los Angeles, 2016

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Joe is Dead, 2016 | tumbleweed, treadmill, fan

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BOMBSPLINTER, 2016 | LSD blotter and acrylic, 20.3 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm

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I JUST WON’T SLEEP, I DECIDED, 2016 (detail) | postcards and postcard display stand