Liam Gillick

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Liam Gillick (* 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 from 1984 to 1987 at Goldsmith College in London under Michael Craig-Martin, among others .

Gillick's work encompasses a variety of artistic forms of expression: he is an object artist, painter, curator, critic and composes film music. Its space-filling architectures take up minimalist concepts . He works z. B. with narrow shelf constructions and brightly colored room dividers and uses colored Plexiglas , MDF panels and aluminum rails . Gillick also has an extensive journalistic body that includes essays, reviews, fictional texts and theater-like scenarios.

The artist's extensive work was shown for the first time from 2007 to 2010 from a retrospective perspective. The independently curated exhibition parts under the title Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario were on view in 2007 at Witte de With , Rotterdam, in 2008 at the Kunsthalle Zürich 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 entitled How are you going to behave? - A kitchen cat speaks was critically discussed in the German press. In the new installation of the kitchen in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn in 2010, the cat spoke German.

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

Quote

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

- Liam Gillick :

Exhibitions

Works in public collections

Public projects

  • 1999 BIC Technology Center, Leipzig
  • 2002 Dekabank, Frankfurt, Applied Discussion Platform
  • 2003–2004 Headache, phone card, soda, donuts, stereo , Great Portland Street Underground station , London
  • 2004 museum in progress , Rolling Boards , Vienna
  • 2007 Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt am Main

publication

literature

  • Peter Lodermeyer, Karlyn De Jongh & Sarah Gold: Personal Structures - Time. Space. Existence. , DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9279-2 .
  • Nicolas Bourriaud, Robert Fleck, Isabelle Moffat, Rainald Schumacher: Liam Gillick , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.), Snoeck, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940953-40-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna-Carla Melchert, Luise Pilz: The cat is out of the bag , in: The time of June 10, 2009.
  2. ^ Liam Gillick in the German Pavilion Venice 2009 , art-in.de, May 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Gillick, Liam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire