Martin Creed
dal 5/5/2011 al 24/9/2011
Segnalato da
5/5/2011
Martin Creed
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo
Works. The entire ground floor is taken up with just one work, which simultaneously inundates and empties the exhibition space. Work No. 247 Half the air in a given space (2000) consists of materialising half the air contained in a space by using balloons, and in so doing completely modifying the perception of the place. The exhibition is completed with a series of works related to music and sound in one of the galleries on the first floor. Curated by Carolina Grau.
curated by Carolina Grau
PRESENTATION
British artist Martin Creed (Wakefield, United Kingdom, 1968) presents a project that responds to the format of new productions made specifically for the MARCO. Regarded as one of the more acclaimed artists of his generation, and winner of the Turner Prize in 2001, he combines his practice as an artist with that of his band formed in 1994.
EXHIBITED WORKS
The entire ground floor is taken up with just one work, which simultaneously inundates and empties the exhibition space. Work No. 247 Half the air in a given space (2000) consists of materialising half the air contained in a space by using balloons, and in so doing completely modifying the perception of the place. The exhibition is completed with a series of works related to music and sound in one of the galleries on the first floor.
Performance ‘Martin Creed and his band’
‘Martin Creed and his band’ will give a performance on Friday 6th May at 9pm, in the Conference Room, as part of the inaugural programme.
COLLABORATION AAM
This exhibition has been produced with the invaluable assistance of a group of members of the MARCO Friends´Association (AAM).
With the exhibition ‘MARTIN CREED. Obras’, curated by Carolina Grau, the MARCO pursues its line of home-produced individual projects conceived specifically for the Museum’s galleries. This display is the first solo presentation of this artist’s work in Spain, and is fruit of a collaboration between two institutions: the MARCO of Vigo — ‘MARTIN CREED. Obras’ (May – September 2011) — and the Sala Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid — ‘MARTIN CREED. Cosas’ (December 2011 – February 2012).
Regarded as one of the more acclaimed artists of his generation, and winner of the Turner Prize in 2001, Martin Creed combines his practice as an artist with that of his band formed in 1994. Creed’s ongoing investigation into the basic nature of things has led him to eliminate the accessory in search of the essential and create a world of unexpected classifications, categories and exceptions using everyday objects, words and sounds.
In his proposal for the MARCO, Creed takes his investigation into perception and physical experience a step further by playing with our relations with our surroundings. The entire ground floor is taken up with just one work, which simultaneously inundates and empties the exhibition space. Work No. 247 Half the air in a given space, 2000, consists of materialising half the air contained in a space by means of an ordinary object. Balloons, festive playthings normally associated with childhood, are seen here as containers of air that render tangible and visible something which is ephemeral and immaterial.
First created in 1998, this piece acquires in the galleries of the MARCO a completely new dimension thanks to the monumentality and size of the rooms: half the space – some 6.863 m3 of air in three courtyards, three galleries, and the central well – is flooded by a sea of light blue balloons, which alter entirely our physical experience and our perception of the space. To appreciate the work, the visitor must literally immerse himself in it and wade through the balloons, triggering a chain of contradictory sensations spanning pleasure and euphoria, wellbeing and anguish, playfulness and disorientedness, where the former is sometimes tinged with a slight sense of menace. As we advance through the space, we come to form part of the piece, bodying forth the artist’s words: ‘You are inside the work instead of looking at it from the outside’ [Martin Creed, Art World Issue 5, June-July 2008, p. 37].
The exhibition at the MARCO includes, in one of the galleries on the first floor, an installation related to music and sound: Work No. 189 Thirty-nine metronomes beating time, one at every speed, 1998, and scores of music, reflecting the diversity of Creed’s work and his practice as composer, musician and lyricist, which he considers as inseparable from his work as a visual artist.
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