Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Tate Triennial 2006: Liam Gillick

Information and resources on "Tate Triennial 2006" at Tate Online.

Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick
Övningskörning (Driving Practice), 2004
Courtesy The Artist

enlarge

Liam Gillick's hanging texts on display in the Triennial relate to a fictional work-in-progress provisionally entitled Construcción de Uno. This project follows a group of ex-factory workers who return to their closed-down workplace and improvise new modes of production using redundant factory signage.

Gillick claims that: 'there is no The idea, there are maybe 20,000 ideas flickering between the illusion of the present and the illusion of the past'. His works engage with the built world and they borrow a pre-existing vocabulary to explore the tension between ideology and its operating systems.

Liam Gillick
Installation View © Tate 2006

enlarge

Biography

Born in 1964 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
1984–1987 Goldsmiths College, University of London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006	Liam Gillick: Edgar Schmitz, ICA, London
2005	A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2003	Literally, Museum of Modern rt, New York Communes, Bars and Greenrooms, The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
2002	The Wood Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004	Singular Forms, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2003	Utopia Station: Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2000	Intelligence: New British Art, Tate Britain, London

Lives and works in London and New York