Liam gillick exhibitions in london
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Maureen Paley.
The Night of Red and Gold
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2019
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery by Liam Gillick.
The Night of Red and Gold fryst vatten a fictional nightclub event described by French philosopher Gilles Châtelet in his complex and passionate book To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in marknad Economies (1998).
The Night of Red and Gold
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2019
In the first chapter we are taken to Le Palace in Paris on a night in 1979 where a new constellation of social relationships is falling into place.
“...a festive equilibrium, the cordial boudoir of the ‘tertiary service society’ which would very quickly become the society of boredom, of the spirit of imitation, of cowardice, and above all of the petty game of reciprocal envy—’first one to wake envies the others.“
Gilles Châtelet*
The Night of Red and Gold
exhibition view
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Maureen Paley.
The Sleepwalkers
exhibition view
Maureen Paley, London
2025
“Their step was light and they could feel the ball of each foot pushing the earth down from them as they walked.”
Liam Gillick, Literally No Place, 2002.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present Liam Gillick’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, The Sleepwalkers. The exhibition features five artworks from the 1990s and 2000s and a recent film from 2021 shot in Korea. All the works stem from his interest in the aesthetics of our socio-political infrastructure – the zones of strategy, negotiation, projection, and scenario-thinking – that are the backdrop to daily life in post-industrial society.
The works in the main gallery are bound together by Introduction (2002), a text that wraps mid-height around the walls. Three plinths carry pieces that relate to an ongoing critique of systems of mediation and soft control within a neo-liberal context.
McNamara Setting
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Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. His solo exhibitions include The Wood Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2002; A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, 2005 and the retrospective project Three Perspectives and a short scenario, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunstverein, München and the MCA, Chicago, 2008-2010. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and the Vincent Award at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2008. Many public commissions and projects include the Home Office in London (2005) and the Dynamica Building in Guadalajara, Mexico (2009). In 2006 he was a central figure in the free art school projectunitednationsplaza in Berlin that travelled to Mexico City and New York. In 2012 a survey of work from the 1990s titled Liam Gillick: From 199A to 199B opened at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum; a companion exhibition From 199C to 199D opened at Magasin, Grenoble in 2014.
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