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Liam Gillick | Resolution Platform | €49.600 |
Liam Gillick was born in 1964 in the tranquil town of Aylesbury; with a population of just under 60,000, it is the capital of the English county of Buckinghamshire. He attended Hertfordshire College of Art from 1983 to 1984 and for a further three years Goldsmiths College in London, where his teachers included the Irish-British painter and installation artist Sir Michael Craig-Martin. He graduated in 1987 and opened his first exhibition as early as 1989 under the slogan 84 Diagrams, directed by the London-based German art dealer Karsten Schubert. Numerous further exhibitions followed, for which Liam Gillick worked in cooperation with important personalities from the art scene including the co-editor of the art journal Art Monthly, Jack Wendler, and artist colleagues such as Jeremy Deller and Anya Gallaccio. Since his artistic breakthrough at the beginning of the 1990s, Liam Gillick has paid special attention to the new emerging ideological control systems and tries to this day to unveil them with various artistic means.
Liam Gillick frequently regards his art also from a political point of view and chooses a corresponding approach. In 2016, at the suggestion of his long-term patron Nicolaus Schaffhausen, the director of the Kunsthalle Vienna, he designed a political map of Europe and Mediterranean. Onto this, the artist replaced the names of the countries with descriptions of conditions that, in his opinion, came closest to the actual state of the respective society. I See That Iceland is Improving was the mocking title that Gillick devised as a critical as well as admonishing enquiry into politics. Gillick proves as versatile in his choice of artistic form of expression as he is in his themes and messages: Alongside his expansive installations based on minimalist concepts, he is also interested in music which he composes himself to accompany films, and has created a joint installation with the British band New Order and the composer Joe Duddell based on the musicians’ entire oeuvre.
In 2009, Liam Gillick received the prestigious commission to design the German pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale. Early in his career, he had already been interested in the structure behind the front-page news as presented in newspapers and TV programmes; he developed the series Documents with his former fellow student, the writer, photographer and artist Henry Bond, in which photographs of memorable moments in politics and society were strung together in colour and black-and-white and annotated with new commentary. Liam Gillick was married to the British painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris from 1998 to 2012 and together they had a son. Counted amongst his family are the successful artists Ernest Gillick, Mary Gillick, his cousins Theodore Gillick and James Gillick, and the latter’s mother, pro-life activist Victoria Gillick.
Liam Gillick lives and works today predominantly in New York.
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Do you own a work by Liam Gillick, which you would like to sell?
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