Douglas Gordon

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Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon (born 1966 in Glasgow , Scotland , Great Britain ) is a Scottish artist. He lives in Glasgow, Berlin-Kreuzberg and New York .

Life

From 1984 to 1988 Gordon completed a BA degree at the Glasgow School of Art , from 1988 to 1990 a postgraduate master’s degree a . a. with Phyllida Barlow at the Slade School of Art in London. In 1993 he had his first solo exhibition.

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Douglas Gordon became known in 1993 with the video installation 24 Hour Psycho , in which he extended a commercially available video cassette of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) to a duration of 24 hours. His interest in the alienation of cinema icons has determined his oeuvre ever since: In 1998 the idea of extending The Searchers by John Ford from 1956 to the duration of the film's plot of 5 years (5 year drive by) was born . It was partially realized on location of the film, in the desert of Monument Valley .

In something between my mouth and your ear from 1994, Gordon visualizes the time he spent in her womb during his mother's pregnancy before the birth; in a dark room you can hear chart hits from various loudspeakers for the period from January to September 20, 1966, the day he was born; With this time travel to the year 1966 he brings the past into the present and, like an archaeologist, unearths cultural products of the past. At the same time, he puts himself and the viewer back in time; it measures the time of its "production" with the nine months.

In Between Darkness and Light (after William Blake ) (1997), Gordon used two other classics of cinema history, The Exorcist by William Friedkin and The Song of Bernadette by Henry King. He projects a film from one side and from the other onto a free-standing, translucent screen so that they are mirror-inverted.

Feature Film (1999) is Douglas Gordon's first self-made film, a further take on a Hitchcock film. Gordon had the memorable film score of Vertigo , composed by Bernhard Hermann , re-performed by the Orchestra of the Opera National de Paris under its then chief conductor James Conlon . During the performance, Gordon filmed the conductor's face and hands with multiple cameras from different perspectives. Music and image merge here to create their own interpretation of the known musical motifs, the connection to the cinematic plot is created in the mind of the viewer.

Douglas Gordon and the French filmmaker Philippe Parreno showed their film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait at Art Basel 2006 . In it they portray the soccer star and former French national player Zinédine Zidane over the entire period of a league game for his club Real Madrid . 16 high-speed cameras with powerful zoom lenses were positioned on the edge of the field and on the top tier of the stadium, all of which followed Zidane at the same time, mostly in close-up. The course of the game remains unclear due to the lack of commentary and the focus on one player. The focus of the observation is on Zidane's facial expressions and gestures, on recurring movement patterns and minimal breakouts from the professional routine of the footballer.

The concept of the film is not new, because in 1970 the German director Hellmuth Costard made a similar film (“Football Like Never Before”) about George Best , at that time with Manchester United . At that time, eight 16 mm cameras only recorded George Best. The film was broadcast on ARD in 1971. Nevertheless, the two films differ in terms of the quality and number of cameras, the editing and the resulting visual aesthetics. Ultimately, with the charismatic George Best and the impenetrable Zidane, two very different football personalities are portrayed. Douglas Gordon himself referred to Andy Warhol's screen tests in an interview .

In addition to the works that deal with cinema films, Douglas Gordon exhibited conceptual text works ( list of names , 1990-ongoing), photographs and some video installations in which he used historical found footage material ( Hysterical , 1994/95, 10 ms -1 , 1994).

In 2008 Gordon was appointed to the competition jury of the 65th Venice Film Festival under the chairmanship of German director Wim Wenders . In May 2018, Gordon was elected as a member of the Visual Arts section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Prizes and awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Plays

  • 2015 Neck of the Woods , premiered at the Manchester International Festival with Charlotte Rampling in the lead role
  • 2015 Bound to Hurt

Public collections

Denmark
Germany
France
Italy
Canada
Netherlands
Norway
Austria
Portugal
Switzerland
United States
United Kingdom

literature

  • Kidnapping . In conversation with Jan Debbaut, ed. by Jan Debbaut. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 1998. ISBN 90-70149-65-6
  • Douglas Gordon . Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover , September 27 to November 29, 1998. Edited by Eckhard Schneider, Hannover 1998. ISBN 3-9805041-2-3
  • Douglas Gordon . Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 16, 2001 - January 20, 2002. Edited by Russell Ferguson. MIT Press, Los Angeles 2001. ISBN 0262062224
  • Philip Monk: Double-cross, the Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon . Toronto 2003, ISBN 978-0921047964
  • Douglas Gordon, timeline . Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 11 to September 4, 2006. New York 2006. ISBN 0-87070-390-0
  • Douglas Gordon. Between Darkness and Light . Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, April 20 to August 12, 2007. Ostfildern 2007. ISBN 3775719601

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tiergartener Gewerbehof - end of a showcase project , in the Berliner Zeitung of July 14, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2016
  2. ↑ Hinrichsen, Jens: Douglas Gordon's "Feature Film in Berlin" - From the Realm of the Dead . In: monopol-magazin.de of February 21, 2013 (accessed on February 21, 2013)
  3. ↑ Elke Buhr: "Zidane remains a mystery for us". In: art - the art magazine . June 16, 2008, archived from the original on June 19, 2008 ; Retrieved June 28, 2008 .
  4. ↑ cf. Vivarelli, Nick: Venice Film Festival announces Slate ( Memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), July 29, 2008 (accessed July 30, 2008)
  5. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Hugo Boss Prize Website ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hugobossprize.com
  7. ^ Käthe Kollwitz Prize for Douglas Gordon. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of August 30, 2012, p. B5
  8. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 23, 2014
  9. ^ "Monument for a Forgotten Future"

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personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland, UK