Liam Gillick

theanyspacewhatever

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.”

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