Jude Tallichet (American). Jerry Can: Water (Animating elements). 2006. polished bronze. Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum. 2014.300.

height: 19 in, 48.2600 cm; width: 15 in, 38.1000 cm; depth: 5 1/2 in, 13.9700 cm

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Modern and Contemporary Art

Modern and Contemporary Art

"Jerry Can: Water (Animating Elements)" part of an installation titled "Could Have Been a Revolution". The installation refers specifically to Vladimir Tatlin’s unrealized, iconic "Monument to the Third International" (1920) and more generally to myriad failed schemes and revolutions. Tallichet has described the elements of the installation—lights, gasoline cans, tanks used to hold compressed gasses, and the books depicted in the wallpaper she designed—as common tools used by contemporary revolutionaries and terrorists. Casting the three-dimensional objects in bronze effectively monumentalizes them and the defunct movements they represent.

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• Jerry Can: Gasoline/Water was shown for the first time as part of Could Have Been a Revolution at Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York in 2006. Tallichet has had numerous solo exhibitions at the gallery since 2000. Tallichet's work has frequently been shown at New York's illustrious alternative art spaces, such as White Columns, Art in General, Exit Art, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center. In 2004 Tallichet created a site-specific installation for Socrates Sculpture Park, in Queens.