Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist.
Biography
Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied art first there (at the Glasgow School of Art) from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1988-1990. His first solo show was in 1986.
Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. In 2005 he put together an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin called 'The Vanity of Allegory'. In 2006 there was an exhibition of his at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, called "Timeline". In 2008, he won the Roswitha Haftmann prize.[1]
Artwork
Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.[2]
In one early work, Meaning and Location (1990), a passage from the Gospel of Luke is given with a comma in different places, thus subtly changing the meaning of the sentence. List of Names (1990-present) is a list of every person Gordon has ever met and can remember. One version of this is applied onto the wall of a stairwell in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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.[3] 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. In one installation, this was placed at the top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's main plot points.
Gordon also made a film about Zinedine Zidane, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle, an idea first seen in a film by Hellmuth Costard, who, in 1970, made a film about George Best titled Football as Never Before.
Gordon has also made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece.
External links
- Gagosian Gallery: Douglas Gordon
- Lisson Gallery: Douglas Gordon
- Turner Prize 1996: Douglas Gordon
- Douglas Gordon at MoMA (06/2006)
- Another Review of what have I done (Contemporary)
- Interview (04/2006)
- Interview (12/2002)
- Gordon at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
- Review of "what you want me to say..." exhibition in Barcelona
- Douglas Gordon in the Video Data Bank
Notes
- ^ Levent Ozler: Roswitha Haftmann Prize Goes to Video Artist Douglas Gordon, Dexinger, January 20th, 2008.
- ^ Monsters Inc, The Guardian, November 5th, 2002.
- ^ Susan Stone: Museum Hosts '24 Hour Psycho' -- Literally, "All Things Considered", February 29th, 2004.