Martin Creed

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

life and work

Don't Worry, 2005, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield and grew up in Glasgow . From 1986 to 1990 he studied 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, is exactly what the title describes: a kneaded piece of blu-tack , rolled into a ball and pressed against a wall . One of Creed's most famous works is Work No. 200, half the air in a given space (1998), which consists of a room with so many balloons in it that they contain half the air in the room.

The work that Creed showed for the 2001 Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate Gallery , Work No. 227, the lights going on and off. It consisted of an empty room in which the lights were regularly switched on and off. As is often the case with the Turner Prize, it has garnered some press coverage, in large part questioning whether such a minimalist work can even be considered art. The artist Jacqueline Crofton pelted the walls of the room with eggs in protest. Creed won the award.

In 1994 Creed formed the band Owada. In 1997 she released her first CD, Nothing , on David Cunningham 's Piano label. Here, too, there is a very direct connection between the titles and the work itself: in songs like 1-2-3-4 , the entire lyrics are already 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 from neon tubes . In these cases the work title shows the text of the neon font. These include Work No. 220, Don't 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 featured in Tate Britain Creeds Work No. 850 , which consists of a runner running through the gallery as fast as possible every 30 seconds.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Youngs, Ian The art of Turner protests (English), www.bbc.co.uk, October 31, 2002, accessed August 17, 2008
  2. ^ Turner Prize History (list of winners 1984-2006), accessed August 17, 2008
  3. ↑ Martin Creed: Work No. 850, 2008. Tate Publishing, London 2008. ISBN 978-1-85437-815-6 . (Publication accompanying the exhibition)

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personal data
SURNAME Creed, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakefield