Liam Gillick
theanyspacewhatever signage system (prototype)
Aluminum, 2008
Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008
Courtesy Casey Kaplan, New York, and José Noé Suro, Guadalajara
© Liam Gillick, Photo: David Heald
Oct 24, 2008 - Jan 7, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave (at 89th St)
New York, NY
Originating with a desire to present a contemporary group exhibition that would capture the spirit of the art that emerged during the early 1990s, this presentation has evolved into a collaborative venture among ten artists who share certain strategies and sensibilities: Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Though each artist is recognized for his or her own practice, they are linked by a mutual rethinking of the early modernist impulse to conflate art and life. Rather than deploying representational strategies, they privilege experiential, situation-based work over discrete aesthetic objects. The exhibition model—in essence, a spatial and durational event—has become, for these artists, a creative medium in and of itself.
