Gallery Transplant, Floor Specifications Gallery #3, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Transplanted to Jersey City, New Jersey. Surface: Snow, Dirt, Gravel. Duration: 4 Weeks

<p>In his <em>Transplants</em> series (1968–early 1970s), Dennis Oppenheim marked out the dimensions of an indoor space on remote or desultory plots of open land. Invited to show in the groundbreaking group exhibition <em>Op losse schroeven</em> at the Stedelijk Museum in 1969, Oppenheim replicated the footprint of his assigned exhibition gallery in a field near Jersey City. His outdoor site was implicitly set against the confines of an official art space, relativizing its importance. Oppenheim also opened sculpture (and exhibitions) to the effects of chance and other elements beyond the artist’s control. Site documentation, presented as data, defines these artworks over the long term; Oppenheim showed a version of the documentation at the Stedelijk but felt free to rearrange and resize its elements, leading to two further versions, including this one.</p>