--- title: "259 - 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art, Weiss 6/9-7/13 2007" date: 2017-08-22T17:17:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/259-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art-weiss-6-9-7-13-2007" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) 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Weiss, whose art reflects his theoretical concerns, has developed a distinctive oeuvre which includes the integration of text fragments and drawings with sexual imagery, the accumulation and profusion of objects, and constructions fabricated from industrial glass that both reveal and block access to information. In his new work, Weiss transforms these two works of literature into visual equivalencies that obliquely take as their subject matter philosophical questions relating to morality, the relationship of civilization to nature, and the existence of evil and perversion versus man’s virtuous aspirations. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Weiss/2007/Weiss-120-Days-of-Sodom.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) ![Wiess Columns With 2000](/assets/exhibition_images/Wiess-Columns-with...-2000.JPG) Clemens Weiss Columns with..., 2000 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wiess Columns With 2000]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Clemens Weiss Columns with..., 2000 ![Wiess Stele With Ceramic Satyr And 3 Sketchbooks 2005 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Clemens Weiss Stele with Ceramic Satyr and 3 Sketchbooks, 2005 ![Weiss 120 Days Of Sodom 2006 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Clemens Weiss 120 days of sodom, 2006 ![Wiess Studies For The Complaint Of Art Theatre Performance 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Clemens Wiess Studies for the Complaint of Art theatre performance\_01, 2007 ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View A 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Weiss/2007-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art/Wiess-North-Gallery-installation-view-A_01.JPG) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View A 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View B 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View A 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View C 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View A 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Weiss/2007-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art/Wiess-North-Gallery-installation-view-A_01.JPG) ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View B 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Weiss/2007-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art/Wiess-North-Gallery-installation-view-B_01.JPG) ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View A 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Weiss/2007-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art/Wiess-South-Gallery-installation-view-A_01.JPG) ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View C 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Weiss/2007-120-days-of-sodom-the-complaints-of-art/Wiess-South-Gallery-installation-view-C_01.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View A 01]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess North Gallery Installation View B 01]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View A 01]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view ![Wiess South Gallery Installation View C 01]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 120 days of sodom + the complaints of art installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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