Martin Creed

Martin Creed ( born 1968 in Wakefield ) is an English artist who was known for his based on the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s works. He won the 2001 Turner Prize.

Life and work

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield and grew up in Glasgow. He studied from 1986 to 1990 Art at the Slade School of Art at University College London.

Since 1987 Creed has numbered his works. Most work titles relate very directly to the substance of the respective work. Work No.. 79, some Blu -tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall (1993 ), for example, exactly what the title describes: a kneaded piece of Blu -Tack, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall. Among the best known works Creed's Work No. belongs. 200, half the air in a space givenName (1998), which consists of a space in which there are so many balloons that they contain half the air in the room.

In public, particularly known was the work showed the Creed for the Turner Prize 2001 exhibition at the Tate Gallery, Work No.. 227, the lights going on and off It consisted of an empty room in which the light was turned on and off regularly. As is often the case with the Turner Prize, this attracted some attention in the press, to a large extent the question was asked whether such a minimalist work can ever be considered art. The artist Jacqueline Crofton threw the walls of the room in protest with eggs. Creed won the award.

In 1994, the band Creed Owada. In 1997, she released her first CD, Nothing, with David Cunningham's label " Piano". Again, there is a very direct connection between the titles and the work itself: in songs like 1-2-3-4 is the whole lyrics included in the title. Sounds are also an element of Creed's other works, such as using doorbells and metronomes.

Some of Creed's works use lettering made ​​of neon tubes. In these cases, the work title displays the text of the neon sign. These include Work No.. 220, Do not Worry (2000), Work No.. 225, Everything Is Going To Be Alright (2000) and Work No.. 232, the whole world the work = the whole world (2000 ), the latter was attached to the Tate Britain in London.

2008 ( July 1 to November 16 ) was also at the Tate Britain Creed's Work No.. 850 issued, made ​​from the fact that every 30 seconds a runner runs as fast as possible through the gallery.