![]() Stepping away from all that’s happening with Oolite Arts wasn’t an easy decision. He told the publication ARTnews that taking “objects of desire,” like the DiMaggio footage and the Beatles’ original ledger sheets, helps “draw you into this collective memory we all share.” “I would think: Why is he like that? He’s one of the greatest baseball players ever, so why is he so unhappy? Then I made this piece about him and about Marilyn dying.” You couldn’t approach him, you couldn’t ask him for an autograph or a picture, you couldn’t smile, you couldn’t even look at him,” Scholl says. “Every day I’d go to breakfast at a place called Arnie & Richie’s (in Miami Beach) … Back in the day, Joe DiMaggio would be there almost every morning. There’s a South Florida connection to the inspiration for “Untitled (DiMaggio honeymoon), 2022.” “I bought footage of him on his honeymoon with Marilyn Monroe and then I bought the New York Daily News’ newspapers from the week that Marilyn died and I put them together,” says Scholl. One piece is made up of royalty statements Scholl acquired at an auction for songs written by legends John Lennon and Paul McCartney.Īnother was created with ephemera purchased from “Yankee Clipper” Joe DiMaggio’s estate. Scholl began to work with historical and branded original objects, some that he’d already obtained from bidding at auctions. “I generally reassemble the individual objects creating a dodecagon, a 12-sided figure,” he says.Įarlier this year, he exhibited his first solo show in Berlin, titled “The Texture of My Memory” and featuring nearly 20 works. ![]() It merges his desire to create original art with his penchant for collecting. ![]() The poking unearthed an interest he has always had in collecting historical ephemera, which has led to where he is now. Hua International“Untitled (DiMaggio honeymoon),” 2022, acquired objects and graphite. ![]()
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