26 January 2008 – 30 March 2008

LIAM GILLICK - THREE PERSPECTIVES AND A SHORT SCENARIO

We begin our program in 2008 with a retrospective of work by the British artist Liam Gillick. The exhibition entitled “Three perspectives and a short scenario” will be shown from 25 January to 30 March at the Kunsthalle Zurich.

This Zurich retrospective is embedded in a multipart exhibition project that links times and places, that chooses concepts and works from the oeuvre of the last twenty years and translates them into a form that does without any kind of work-accumulating survey. At four geographically separate institutions the attempt will be made to provide an insight into the artist’s highly diverse oeuvre via various exhibition formats, objects on exhibit and architectural interventions.

Liam Gillick’s work breaks through the genre- and media-specific boundaries of the visual arts. He undertakes architectural and structural, spatial interventions, creates minimalist objects, as well as graphic works and wall paintings. Another important aspect of Gillick’s production is his extensive literary activity: along with essays, he writes reviews of his fellow artists, is the author of fictional futurist visions and historical “re-interpretations”. Beyond this he composes film music, creates theatre-like scenarios or takes on the role of an exhibition organizer. In all its forms of expression, his work is an ongoing study of structures that mould our cultural and political reality. He uses these as a “vocabulary of forms”, examines history as to its alleged progressive suggestions for designing and moulding societies and sets them up for debate as potential utopian models.

For his objects and installations Liam Gillick uses mass-produced materials, such as aluminium, chipboard and Plexiglas. The modular objects that result define areas in rooms or are arranged into room-filling installations, whereby Gillick in his work always takes into account the structure and the significance of the exhibition rooms themselves.

Address

Kunsthalle Zürich
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
phone +41 44 272 15 15
http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Friday 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. ; Thursday - 8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; closed on Monday.

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