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Liam Gillick (English and German Edition)
Liam Gillick - English and German Edition Author:Liam Gillick, Nicolas Bourriaud, Isabelle Moffat Born in 1964, the prolific Liam Gillick was one of the YBA's (Young British Artists) including — Damien Hirst and Angela Bulloch who dominated British art through the 1990s. He's spent years — as the post-conceptual crowd-pleaser, with a controversial solo show in the German pavilion at the Venice — Biennale 2009 only the most recent triumph. His s... more »culptural forms and settings seem terse, yet, writes
curator Robert Fleck, ''they evince a strong almost celebratory intellectual presence.''
This monumental 256-page, full-color catalog serves as a comprehensive mid-career
retrospective, compiled by the artist himself. With his muscular combination of words, forms and ideas,
the works are both narrative and non-narrative. For example, in ''The State itself Becomes a Super
Whatnot,'' a vivid aluminum and Plexiglas installation derives, in the artist's words, ''from Brazilian research
into Scandinavian car production.''
Gillick has created over 2000 multi-dimensional works exploring--in his casual, playful yet
deeply political way--ideas about capitalism, social organizations, social volatility and the myriad
possibilities of instability. The New York-based artist's quest has continually been something of a causal
chain that investigates concepts such as utopia, parallelism, space and time, using them all as a
search for utopia. As Gillick says, ''One long walk ... Two short piers ...''
The definitive volume so far on this incessantly interesting and rigorous artist. With texts by