Government Art Collection - In Conversation

In Conversation

23 April – 4 May 2012

Works from the Government Art Collection by

Jack Charoux, Bernard Cohen, Douglas Gordon, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gordon House, Tess Jaray, R.B. Kitaj, Liliane Lijn, Rachel Lowe, Martin Vincent & Ian Whittlesea

Government Art Collection

Queens Yard

179a Tottenham Court Road

London

image top Ian Whittlesea – Studio Paintings, Index, 2002

offset litho, 70,7 x 50 cm, edition of 50

published by the Vargas Organisation, London

La Maison Rouge – Néon

Néon, Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue?

17 February – 20 May 2012

La Maison Rouge

10, Boulevard de la Bastille

75012 Paris

www.lamaisonrouge.org

exhibition curated by David Rosenberg, with more than 100 works, executed in neon by a.o. Bruce Nauman, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Cerith Wyn Evans, Tracy Emin, Douglas Gordon, Dan Flavin, Maurizio Nannucci, Fiona Banner, Jonathan Monk, Joseph Kosuth and Bethan Huws

image © Joseph Kosuth, La Maison Rouge, photograph by Marc Domage

Joseph Kosuth – Neon, 1965

Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art

Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art

25 August – 30 September 2011

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Cohen Memorial Hall

1220 21st Avenue South

Nashville, Tennessee 37203

www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/

Reading Pictures examines the intersection of text and image in contemporary art through more than fifty examples drawn from the Fine Arts Gallery’s collections. While some works are associated with the modern tradition of concrete poetry, many use text as a means to linguistically “illustrate” accompanying images, or vice versa. Still others employ text either alone or in conjunction with images in order to trigger associations, thoughts, and memories within the viewer. Featured artists, some in collaboration with writers or in response to existing text, include Robert Barry, Harmen Brethouwer, John Cage with Calvin Sumsion, Enrique Chagoya, Thomas A. Clark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Devereux, Lesley Dill with Emily Dickinson, Jim Dine with Frank O'Hara, Chris Drury, Ian Hamilton Finlay with Janet Boulton and Cornelia Wieg, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Sol Lewitt with Paul Celan, Thomas Locher, Richard Long, Jill Mathis, Deborah Muirhead, Michael Peel, Alyson Shotz, Jack Werner Stauffacher with Albert Camus, Antoni Tàpies, Kees Verbeek, Hans Waanders, and Lawrence Weiner.

Reading Pictures is organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and curated by Joseph S. Mella, director. Student research assistant, Ellington Griffin (B.A., Vanderbilt 2011). Reading Pictures is presented in conjunction with The Book as Art: Beautiful Books, organized by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries.

In this exhibition are several works on display which I published with Peninsula and October Foundation, a.o. Fulton, Long, Finlay, Waanders, Clark, Barry, Devereux, LeWitt, Gordon, Locher and the print of Lawrence Weiner on the poster

Douglas Gordon – Silence in the Museum

Douglas Gordon – Silence in the Museum

Collection Lambert en Avignon

photographs PF, 2011

Douglas Gordon – Avignon

Textworks by Douglas Gordon on the outside walls of Collection Lambert, Musée d'art contemporain in Avignon

Collection Lambert

Musée d'art contemporain

5, Rue Violette

84000 Avignon

photographs Peter Foolen, during a visit to the exhibition Roni Horn, Avignon, 3 August 2009

Take me (I'm yours) – Serpentine Gallery, 1995

Special edition of the catalogue of the exhibition Take me (I'm yours) – Serpentine Gallery, London, 24 March - 30 April 1995 (touring to Castello di Rivara, Turin and Kunsthalle Nürnberg), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Edition of 40 copies
cardboard box in silver foil envelope, both numbered 28/40, with catalogue, 20 pages, 10,5 x 15 cm, and 36 postcards, 10,5 x 15 cm, with additions of the artists.
Wolfgang Tillmans – 3 postcards, one signed
Douglas Gordon – 3 postcards, all with the artist's bite (see previous post)
Franz West – 3 postcards, one signed
Maria Eichhorn – 3 postcards, all with 19p stamp
Hans Peter Feldmann – 3 postcards with glued b/w images on the back
Christian Boltanski – 3 postcards, one signed
Jef Geys – 3 postcards, one signed
Lawrence Weiner – 3 postcards
Gilbert & George – 3 postcards, all signed (love from Gilbert & George)
Fabryce Hybert – 3 postcards, one with 28-29 written on the front
Christine Hill – 3 postcards, one signed
Carsten Höller – 3 postcards, all signed and dated
in perfect condition, one copy
price on request

Douglas Gordon – Take me (I'm yours)

Douglas Gordon – Kissing with Sodium Pentothal No 20, 1994
Douglas Gordon – Kissing with Sodium Pentothal No 1, 1994
Douglas Gordon – Kissing with Sodium Pentothal No 18, 1994

3 postcards from catalogue box Take me (I'm yours), Serpentine Gallery, 1995
10,5 x 15 cm, with the artist's bite

Rochechouart

Work of Douglas Gordon and Ian Hamilton Finlay will be part of the group exhibition Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit at Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France (1 March – 15 June 2009).

Douglas Gordon – Zidane

Pug In # 48:
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno – Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait,
video installation
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Opening 28 February 2009

On 28 February 2009, the Van Abbemuseum opened the installation Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait by the artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, episode #48 of Plug In. Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (2006), is a portrait on film of Zinédine Zidane, one of the most famous soccer players in the world. During a match between Spanish football club Real Madrid (for whom Zidane played at the time) and Villarreal F.C. in Madrid on 23 April 2005, 17 synchronised cameras were focused on Zidane. The 2-channel video installation at the Van Abbemuseum has the same duration as the football match and consists of two video screens, one showing the edited version of the match, the other a synchronized edit of the footage from the cameras that were focused on Zidane. Viewers will be plunged into all facets of the universe of an athlete in action and will have the sensation of 'moving alongside' Zidane throughout the entire game. Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait, produced by Palomar Pictures and Anna Lena Films, was shown at the Cannes film festival in 2006, which is rather unusual for a work of art. The music for the film was composed by Mogwai, the international rock band from Glasgow. Over the years, the Van Abbemuseum has followed the work of both Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno and the museum has works of both artists in the collection.

Douglas Gordon – Laughing / Crying

Douglas Gordon – Laughing / Crying
1996, silkscreen on Somerset satin white 300 grs, 50 x 40 cm
Printed in and edition of 100 copies, signed
This print was also part of the portfolio
Travaux Publics [Public Works] published by Peninsula, 1996

see for an image of this print: Mark Francis – Douglas Gordon (cat. of Douglas Gordon – Black Spot, Tate Liverpool, 2000), page 261 (here entitled: Untitled – in lieu of being found, 1995)

A few copies still available
Price € 650