Liam Gillick, born in 1964 in Aylesbury, UK, lives and works in New York.
Liam Gillick was one of the first figures to emerge from the English scene at the end of the 1980s. His book Technique Anglaise was a key presentation of those artists who were to later become the stars of the Brit Pop phenomenon.
He is an artist, critic and curator. This multiplicity of roles reveals his avoidance of traditional classifications within the art system. His critique of modernist paradigms has influenced many young artists in recent years. His focus upon the "mise en scene" of marginal, secondary characters in his narratives, presented through a plethora of formal approches, is a primary attribute of Gillick's artworks. Explicit evocations of modernist aesthetics are ironically utilized revealing his postmodern critical position. Gillick uses modernist formalist approches is such a way as to reveal the complexity of contemporary reality, where history, politics, art and fiction intersect to construct the new postmodernism.
Apart from his work as a critic and curator, Liam Gillick has shown his works in public and private spaces around the world, including Documenta X, Kassel; ICA, Boston (1997); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Mamco et Musée d'Art Moderne, Geneva; Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg (1998); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (1999); Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (2001); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2002); Turner Price, Tate Modern, London (2003); CAC, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; ZKM, Museum fuer Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2005); Neue Kunst Halle, St Gallen; Kunsthaus, Zuerich (2006); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam and Kunsthalle, Zurich; Kunstverein Munchen and MCA, Chicago (2008).
Liam Gillick was one of the first figures to emerge from the English scene at the end of the 1980s. His book Technique Anglaise was a key presentation of those artists who were to later become the stars of the Brit Pop phenomenon.
He is an artist, critic and curator. This multiplicity of roles reveals his avoidance of traditional classifications within the art system. His critique of modernist paradigms has influenced many young artists in recent years. His focus upon the "mise en scene" of marginal, secondary characters in his narratives, presented through a plethora of formal approches, is a primary attribute of Gillick's artworks. Explicit evocations of modernist aesthetics are ironically utilized revealing his postmodern critical position. Gillick uses modernist formalist approches is such a way as to reveal the complexity of contemporary reality, where history, politics, art and fiction intersect to construct the new postmodernism.
Apart from his work as a critic and curator, Liam Gillick has shown his works in public and private spaces around the world, including Documenta X, Kassel; ICA, Boston (1997); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Mamco et Musée d'Art Moderne, Geneva; Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg (1998); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (1999); Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (2001); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2002); Turner Price, Tate Modern, London (2003); CAC, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; ZKM, Museum fuer Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2005); Neue Kunst Halle, St Gallen; Kunsthaus, Zuerich (2006); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam and Kunsthalle, Zurich; Kunstverein Munchen and MCA, Chicago (2008).
