 Liam Gillick firststepcousinbarprize For "firststepcousinbarprize" Liam Gillick will present a series of new works that function in parallel to his recent reconsiderations of how conscience and ethics take form in a post industrial environment. The show meanders between fiction and documentary and is closely connected with the new book Gillick is currently writing called "Literally No Place", a title which can be understood as one possible translation of the word "utopia". The gallery will provide a space where the thoughts and speculations take the form of new structures, screens and cubes. These are combined with titles and a wall text that play with the improvised quality and occasional brutality of 16th Century English language at the dawn of our contemporary concept of conscience as a legal defence and a humanistic expression. Since the late 80s Liam Gillick has been working with text and objects that work in parallel to the construction of implicit elements in a constructive de-coding of the semiotics of the built world. His work occupies a middle ground, somewhere between the intentional planning of architectural space and dislocated adjustments at the heart of speculative change. The works in "firststepcousinbarprize" flicker between a provisional architecture and carriers of memory combined with selective documentation. The exhibition is a collapse of time and the bringing together of discordant historical moments, both real and fictional, carried within a spare environment. The exhibition fluctuates between times and ideas, between a society's desire to invent and describe a better world and to cruelly punish its perception of resistance when it is expressed as a question of conscience. The objects on show function like a filter for the speculative structure of the exhibition and the forthcoming book. The forthcoming book will address revised ethics and reformulations of conscience in a post-utopian environment expressed through three separate narratives, "cousin", "bar", "prize" and an extensive commentary. "firststepcousinbarprize" sets the scene for a film in real time that remains rooted in the way our urban environment carries traces of our desires and our resistance to change. Following his exhibition at the Kunsthaus Glarus in 1999 and participation in major exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein; Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Kunsthalle Vienna this will be Gillick‘s first solo show in a Swiss private gallery. Ausstellungsdauer: 20.1. - 3.3.2001 Oeffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 12-18 Uhr, Sa 11-16 Uhr Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Löwenbräum-Areal Limmatstrasse 270 8005 Zürich Telefon: 01-446 80 60 Fax: 01-446 80 65 E-Mail: info@ghwp.ch www.ghwp.ch |
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