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1/5/2014

Liam Gillick

Esther Schipper, Berlin

Esther Schipper is pleased to present Revenons à nos moutons; Liam Gillick's eighth exhibition with the gallery.

Gillick's work draws attention to the manner in which contemporary architectural and workplace settings organize labor practices allow or hinder discursive interactions. In the main room of the gallery, a series of new sculptural works each combine an abstract structure and a text. The works pair a form with fragments of an overheard conversation taken from the film The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974). For the first time, these new sculptural works integrate the artist’s ongoing use of text and abstraction into single works. The use of raw aluminum and clear Plexiglas allows form to move to the front while the text elements provide a commentary upon the contingency of meaning in the specific context.

Adjacent to the main space a mirror-clad room has been created which functions as a screening space for his new film, Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick. Produced to coincide with the first major posthumous exhibition of Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern and the ICA in London, the film is both an homage to the older artist as well as a personal exploration of how artistic practice is constituted through discourse. The film follows a similarly self-reflective strategy as Gillick’s Everything Good Goes (2008), his dialogue with Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s 1972 film Tout va bien.

The exhibition title, Revenons a nos moutons is a reference to the artist's reexamination of his own practice, as part of two exhibitions featuring important early works by Gillick from the 1990s. From 199A -199B was shown in 2012 at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York and the forthcoming De 199C a 199D at Le Magasin, Centre national d'art contemporain, Grenoble.

Liam Gillick was born in 1964 in Aylesbury, England. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Solo exhibbitions include: From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York (2012); A Game of War Structure (site specific work), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2011); One long walk two short piers, KAH, Bonn (2010). How will you behave: A kitchen cat speaks, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009). Group shows (selection): 9 Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2013); Das Neue Lenbachhaus!, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich (2013); Looking Back/The 7th White Columns Annual, selected by Richard Birkett, White Columns, New York (2013) and Abstract Generation: Now in Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013). In 2008 he was nominated for the Vincent Award of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Liam Gillick's solo exhibition De 199C a 199D opens at Le Magasin, Centre national d'art contemporain, Grenoble on 6 June 2014.

Image: Liam Gillick, Hamilton: A film by Liam Gillick, 2014. Courtesy: the artist

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Opening: Friday, 2 May, 6 - 9pm

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