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Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon
Proposition for a Poshumouse Portrait 2004
Courtesy Sean and Mary Kelly, New York
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Douglas Gordon's diverse practice – which encompasses film,
photography and text based works – explores memory, identity,
perception and meaning. The mirror is an important formal
and conceptual element in Gordon's practice. Present as both
a structural and metaphorical device it is used to suggest the
co-existence of duplicate realities.
While Gordon has recreated many works that fuse autobiography
and fiction, Proposition for a Posthumous Portrait references the
artist's persona but also borrows from art history. The skull with its
carved star, recalls Haircut for de Zayas 1921, Man Ray's photograph
of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Mapplethorpe's haunting self-portrait
where he holds a skull-headed staff.
Biography
Born in 1966 in Glasgow
1984–1988 Glasgow School of Art
1988–1990 The Slade School of Fine Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2000
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Douglas Gordon, Tate Liverpool
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2001
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Douglas Gordon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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2002
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Douglas Gordon: What Have I Done, Hayward Gallery, London
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2003
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Letters, Telephone Calls, Postcards, Miscellaneous, 1991–2003, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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1999
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48th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion
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2000
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The British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery Touring
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2002
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Point of View.
A Contemporary Anthology of the Moving Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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2005
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Cut / Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
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Lives and works in Glasgow and New York
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