Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick ( born 1964 in Aylesbury / Buckinghamshire ) is a British painter, sculptor, and object artist.

Life and work

Liam Gillick studied from 1983 to 1984 at the Hertfordshire College of Art and 1984-1987 at Goldsmiths College in London, among others with Michael Craig -Martin.

The work Gillick includes a variety of artistic forms of expression: it is an object artist, painter, curator, critic and composes film music. His room-filling architectures rely on minimalist concepts. He works for example with narrow shelf designs and bright - colored room dividers and thereby used colored plexiglass, MDF and aluminum rails. Gillick also has an extensive body of publications, the essays, reviews, fictional texts and theater-like scenarios includes.

The extensive work of the artist was first shown from 2007 to 2010 under retrospective point of view. The independently curated exhibition parts under the title Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario were seen in 2007 at the Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2008 at the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Kunstverein Munich, and in 2009/2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art ( Chicago). Also in 2009, Gillick designed the German Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, which was curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen. The exhibition under the title How are you going to behave? - A kitchen cat speaks was criticized in the German press. In the reorganization of the kitchen in the Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn in 2010, the cat spoke German.

In 2002 he was nominated for the Turner Prize, 2008 for the Vincent Award " Broere Charitable Foundation ", Amsterdam. Gillick is married to the painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris, the couple has a son.

Quote

"My work requires a critical reception that generates differentiated thoughts, but also skepticism. I understand this method as an ongoing dialogue which rather begs the question of production than by mere representation. I work in the gap between the modern and modernist self-consciousness. My work is both dependent on chance and individually marked. "

Exhibitions

Works in public collections

  • Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Public Projects

Publication

  • With Marc Godfrey and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Anri Sala, Phaidon Press, London / Berlin 2006, ISBN 0-7148-4527-2. .
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