ARTIST ROOMS is a touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art. For general enquiries regarding your visit or gallery services: Gordon took part in the Biennale of Sydney 2014 and Documenta 17. You will be able to seamlessly ‘Favourite’ images and download large images for personal use. [2] At first, the 71-second loops are in sync, but they get progressively out and then progressively back with each repetition of the whole, hourlong program. Likewise, a work such as Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently and all simultaneously." He has won numerous awards including the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the XLVII Venice Biennale in 1997, and the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1998. Featuring an extensive interview with Douglas Gordon on the process of making his 2016 film I had nowhere to go: Portrait of a displaced person, this video, produced by Berlin Art Link, includes clips of Jonas Mekas and revealing anecdotes about the creation of the film. Douglas Gordon is a Scottish photographer and video artist, known for his art installation 24 Hour Psycho, which consists of appropriation of Hitchcock's movie Psycho. Douglas Gordon: I had nowhere to go. We do not see the orchestra. This October marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, with the Art Gallery of New South Wales commemorating the anniversary with an exhibition Australian art and the Russian avant-garde. [16] A survey of his textworks was shown at Tate Britain, London in 2010. It is above all, his film projects, the Douglas Gordon have made known. Douglas Gordon’s exhibition ‘The Only Way Out is The Only Way’ is showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art until 3 August, 2014. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24. . View Douglas Gordon’s 333 artworks on artnet. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. © Studio lost but found / Douglas Gordon / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019 Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London His work investigates ambiguity and the disruption of the normal, accepted ways of seeing the world. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. In many instances, his artworks directly refer to the site in which they are exhibited, playing with notions of power and its influence on the viewer. [5] The footage showing Minnie’s sequences of tricks is simultaneously presented in a front and a rear life-sized projection and on a monitor, with each one depicting the same event from a range of perspectives, including close-ups of the animal's eyes. When Shirley Manson Met Douglas Gordon . The Berlin show was curated by Klaus Biesenbach. [2] One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho so that it lasts twenty four hours. The installation Looking down with his black, black, ee 2008 takes its title from a popular Scottish poem about a bird sitting on a treetop, while looking down on a group of children, suggesting foreboding menace. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 1993, he exhibited 24 Hour Psycho in the spaces of Tramway, Glasgow, and at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Douglas Gordon is one of the most prominent British artists of his generation. They should do it every day, and should love what they buy' Mon 17 May 2010 17.20 EDT First published on Mon 17 May 2010 17.20 EDT An Art Forum special lecture, part of the 10th Biennale of Sydney Outreach Program Summary: Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist featured in the Biennale of Sydney. 30min | Documentary | Episode aired 9 March 2010 Previous All Episodes (22) Next Add a Plot » Stars: Douglas Gordon, Shirley Manson. OVERVIEW ARTWORKS (284) From Hollywood films to scientific footage to classical literature, Douglas Gordon takes the seemingly familiar and twists it. In Gordon’s world nothing is good or evil – but both at the same time. Add to Watchlist. Artwork Info Artwork title Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. In ‘Seeking Identity’, episode one in our Reflections podcast series, Ewen Bremner introduces a discussion of self image, inviting several guests to explore the idea of self in art. +44 (0)131 624 6200 Jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, the collection is displayed across the UK. Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he received the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale. He has worked in video, photography, sound, text and other media and uses predominantly 'found' material. He speaks about his recent work In Gordon’s world nothing is good or evil – but both at the same time. He … Registered Address: National Galleries of Scotland, 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DS National Galleries of Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland (No. This is the element that engenders those movements and allows us special insight. Through his performances, installations, photography, and video art, Gordon readjusts scenes, tinkers with time, and appropriates cultural sources. The artist attempted to remember everyone he had ever met. This key work is deceptively simple, but has devastating consequences, exposing the way that memory works in the flow of our consciousness. This biography is from Wikipedia under … Memory, loss and rediscovery are the fixed points of the thematic work of Douglas Gordon. [6], Originally conceived as a site-specific video projection for Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea,[7] Play Dead; Real Time (2003) consists of two videos projected on two large screens showing a circus elephant named Minnie ponderously performing for an off-screen trainer in the empty, spacious, white-walled gallery room. , an installation of more than eighty text-based works, opened at Tate Britain, London, in 2010. [10], Gordon has also made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece. Memory and repetition are recurring themes in his oeuvre. 'People who buy art should buy it like they buy veg. In 2006, Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural opened at the National Galleries of Scotland complex in Edinburgh, being Gordon's first major solo exhibition in Scotland since he presented 24 Hour Psycho in 1993. In the works of video artist Douglas Gordon – one of the most important “visual artists” of his generation, awarded with the prestigious Turner Prize in 1996 when he was just 30 years old – the timing of movie narration gets twisted by a new device, that modifies its extension, its message, and the perception of the action it encloses. Two years later Gordon was named a Commandeur dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic. Gordon’s religious upbringing made him deeply aware of human beliefs and he uses these throughout his work. The video work Film Noir (Fly) 1995 – depicting a fly in close-up, fixed to a table top by its wings as it struggles and eventually dies – demonstrates how a simple image can produce complex or even troubling readings. Douglas Gordon is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his ability to disrupt preconceived ideas about reality. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1984 - 1988 and the Slade School of Art, London, 1988 - 1990. Gordon has produced a large number of text-based works, which often generate a dialogue between the artist and the viewer, who is directly addressed by the text. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors. From Hollywood films to scientific footage to classical literature, Douglas Gordon takes the seemingly familiar and twists it. A question mark would have transformed it into a lunatic s lament, a lazy guy s sigh, a murderer s moment of clarity. . Art Forum presented by Douglas Gordon. In a way, it is a self-portrait, since we are what we remember. Douglas Gordon (Scottish, b. Artist name Douglas Gordon Date created 1999 - ongoing Classification video installation Medium multi-channel video installation, black-and-white and color, on monitors k.364 premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010. 24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. [14][15] Another 2006 retrospective was on view at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. [5] Feature Film (1999) is a projection of Gordon's own film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Herrmann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional responses it creates in the viewer. Play Dead; Real Time (2003) is co-owned by MMK Frankfurt and Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection. The text installation List of Names (1990–ongoing) also explores the role of memory. Important shows have been staged in Frankfurt (2011), Edinburgh and New York (2006), London and Bregenz (2002), Los Angeles (2001), Liverpool and Paris (2000), and Eindhoven (1995). His work was the subject of a 2001 retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 1996, he became the first video artist to win the Turner Prize. Retrospective solo exhibitions were shown at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main in 2011 to 2012, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2013 and at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne in 2014. He trained at Glasgow School of Art and then at Slade School of Art, London. Further solo exhibitions have been held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 2013, Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2014. [8] Gordon also made a film about Zinedine Zidane, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006), an idea first seen in a film by Hellmuth Costard, who, in 1970, made a film about George Best titled Football as Never Before. In Phantom (2011), another collaboration with Wainwright, Gordon employs slow-motion film produced with a high-speed Phantom camera focusing on Wainright's eye — blackened with make-up, weeping, and glaring back at the viewer, echoing melodramatic performances by stars of the silent screen.[12]. Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Douglas Gordon makes videos, installations, photographs and text pieces, using both found and original material, in an attempt to lay bare the ambiguities of human life. In Through a looking glass (1999), Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic 71-second scene in Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver (1976), in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself. [1], Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos. Presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014), Phantom (2011) is one of Douglas Gordon’s most extreme and intense creations; a room brought to the brink of emotion. He teaches at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow. Also in 2006, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York showed a retrospective of Gordon's work, called Timeline, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach. ACCA Education / Douglas Gordon 2 Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow in 1966 and is one of the most in!uential contemporary video artists. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. By separating the image this way Gordon alludes to the relationship between the body and mind. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. 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He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Visit the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim Museum in NYC, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The work thus presents the artist, and by implication the viewer, as sadistic. Douglas Gordon is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his ability to disrupt preconceived ideas about reality. What Have I Done, the title of Douglas Gordon s Hayward Gallery show, was untroubled by punctuation. He uses techniques of doubling and mirroring in works including Divided Self I and II (1996), a video showing a smooth arm and a hairy arm wrestling. In these uncertain times we need your support more than ever. He is one of the most successful of contemporary Scottish artists, winning prestigious art prizes in Europe and the United States, including the Turner Prize in 1996. The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon has made a film about Korea’s Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the strip of land separating North and South Korea. [email protected]. Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. Type in your search keywords, then submit or select one of the suggestions. In an exclusive look at his new video artwork, Turner prizewinner Douglas Gordon sets the Cumbrian countryside – and a grand piano – ablaze. [3] In Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), William Friedkin's Exorcist (1973) and Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943) - two films about adolescent girls driven by external forces[4] - are projected on either side of a single free-standing semi-transparent screen so they can be seen simultaneously. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently and all simultaneously. He has achieved huge international recognition, marked by major awards, including the Turner Prize in 1996, and by exhibitions in museums in Europe and America. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors. 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