Mostre, Israele, Tel Aviv, 19 February 2013
Talks on 19 February and 31 January. Exhibition opens on 24 January.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art will host I am also… Douglas Gordon, a major exhibition of one of the leading figures on the contemporary art scene. The Berlin-based artist (b. 1966, Glasgow) is an outstanding personality, whose ties to Israeli culture have become stronger in recent years.
Douglas Gordon is a "film player," who uses cinema and video as a medium, always installing it with a “sculptural” outlook. While he is best known for his films and complex large-scale video installations, his art also encompasses photographs, texts and objects.
Gordon draws inspiration from cinema, literature, art, popular culture and his own history, wavering between personal and collective memory. He explores the existential themes of life and death, good and evil, innocence and guilt and temptation and fear; the exhibition thus proves to be a portrait of the artist’s obsessions.
This survey exhibition provides an overview of Gordon's work from the past twenty years. Some of the pieces presented have become iconic, such as 24 Hour Psycho (1993), 30 seconds text. (1996), and Play Dead; Real Time (2003). Others are references that maintain an undeniable appeal, such as Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006). More recent works on view are k.364 (2010), which masterfully connects the present to a dark past, Henry Rebel (2011), and The End of Civilisation (2012). The progressive display will be on view in the new Herta and Paul Amir Building and the Museum's main building.
A defining feature of Gordon's approach is his ability to animate the architecture itself. Gordon will install nearly 100 text works – words and phrases open to interpretation - within the Light Fall of the Herta and Paul Amir Building, attesting to his enthrallment with language and its multiple meanings.
Opening
Thursday, 24 January 2013 , 8 pm
Lilly & Yoel Moshe Elstein Multi-Purpose Gallery, Laurence Graff Contemporary Art
Gallery, the Light Fall, and Archive Room, Herta and Paul Amir Building; Simon and Marie
Jaglom Pavilion for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport
Sculpture Gallery, Main Building
Opening addresses:
H.E. Amb. Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel
Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo and Chairman of the International Board of Governors, Alan Gemmell, Director, British Council Israel, Suzanne Landau, Director and Chief Curator, Ami Barak, Curator of the exhibition.
The exhibition and the catalogue have been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Association française des Amis du Musée d'Art de Tel Aviv; British Council; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv; Wendy Fisher; Gagosian Gallery; Yvon Lambert, Paris; anonymous donors; and with the assistance of Maccabee Beer.
http://www.tamuseum.com/
http://www.tamuseum.com/about-the-exhibition/douglas-gordon
Tel Aviv Museum of Art will host I am also… Douglas Gordon, a major exhibition of one of the leading figures on the contemporary art scene. The Berlin-based artist (b. 1966, Glasgow) is an outstanding personality, whose ties to Israeli culture have become stronger in recent years.
Douglas Gordon is a "film player," who uses cinema and video as a medium, always installing it with a “sculptural” outlook. While he is best known for his films and complex large-scale video installations, his art also encompasses photographs, texts and objects.
Gordon draws inspiration from cinema, literature, art, popular culture and his own history, wavering between personal and collective memory. He explores the existential themes of life and death, good and evil, innocence and guilt and temptation and fear; the exhibition thus proves to be a portrait of the artist’s obsessions.
This survey exhibition provides an overview of Gordon's work from the past twenty years. Some of the pieces presented have become iconic, such as 24 Hour Psycho (1993), 30 seconds text. (1996), and Play Dead; Real Time (2003). Others are references that maintain an undeniable appeal, such as Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006). More recent works on view are k.364 (2010), which masterfully connects the present to a dark past, Henry Rebel (2011), and The End of Civilisation (2012). The progressive display will be on view in the new Herta and Paul Amir Building and the Museum's main building.
A defining feature of Gordon's approach is his ability to animate the architecture itself. Gordon will install nearly 100 text works – words and phrases open to interpretation - within the Light Fall of the Herta and Paul Amir Building, attesting to his enthrallment with language and its multiple meanings.
Opening
Thursday, 24 January 2013 , 8 pm
Lilly & Yoel Moshe Elstein Multi-Purpose Gallery, Laurence Graff Contemporary Art
Gallery, the Light Fall, and Archive Room, Herta and Paul Amir Building; Simon and Marie
Jaglom Pavilion for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport
Sculpture Gallery, Main Building
Opening addresses:
H.E. Amb. Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel
Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo and Chairman of the International Board of Governors, Alan Gemmell, Director, British Council Israel, Suzanne Landau, Director and Chief Curator, Ami Barak, Curator of the exhibition.
The exhibition and the catalogue have been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Association française des Amis du Musée d'Art de Tel Aviv; British Council; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv; Wendy Fisher; Gagosian Gallery; Yvon Lambert, Paris; anonymous donors; and with the assistance of Maccabee Beer.
http://www.tamuseum.com/
http://www.tamuseum.com/about-the-exhibition/douglas-gordon
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