Douglas Gordon - Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now.

A spectacular installation by Douglas Gordon in permanent collection.

Acquired in 2003, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. has just been considerably enriched with 43 new videos by the artist. This makes the museum the world's largest holder of Gordon's video works. This presentation is a significant addition to such other major ensembles as Raoul Dufy's Magic of Electricity, Henri Matisse's two Dances and Christian Boltanski's Réserve des Enfants.

Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. has been widely exhibited since 1999: at the Hayward Gallery, London, 2002; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris 2003; SF MoMA, San Francisco 2007; Cork Airport, 2011; Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2012 and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2013. Originally comprising some 40 films, it was acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2003 and unveiled there in 2006. It now consists of 82 videos shown on 101 monitors mounted on beer crates. In his work the artist investigates memory and the conceptual aspect of time via the duration of a permanently uncompleted oeuvre. His video installations often reference movie classics; 24 Hours Psycho (1993) and Feature Film (1999), for example, draw directly on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Vertigo (1958). By changing our perception of these films he sets them outside time, the image and the usual boundaries in a way that suggests a new interpretation. His work is marked by recurring themes – innocence, guilt, fact and fiction, life and death, good and evil, the issue of identity – while also calling on the viewer to bring his memory and recollections of fragmented images into play.

DOUGLAS GORDON Born in Glasgow in 1966, this Scottish conceptual artist lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 1988, he studied at the Slade School in London for two years. Gordon was the 1996 recipient of the Turner Prize and in 1997 he was awarded the Premio 2000 at the 47th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia. In 1998 he was presented with the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York. Most recently in May 2008 he won the Roswitha Haftmann Prize awarded by the KunsthausZürich and he was the recipient of the Käthe-Kollwitz Prize 2012 awarded by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. In 2008 Douglas Gordon was Juror at the 65th International Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice and in 2012 he was the Jury president of CinemaXXI at the 7th Rome Film Festival, Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma. His film works have been invited to the Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Venice Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival among many others.

Douglas Gordon has had solo exhibitions at leading museums and galleries around the world, among them the Centre Pompidou (1995), Tate Liverpool (2000), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2001–2012), the Hayward Gallery, London (2002), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2003), the National Gallery of Scotland (2007), the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2007), MoMA, New York (2006), Tate Britain, London (2010), MMK, Frankfurt (2011), the Collection Lambert, Avignon (2008), DOX, Prague (2009), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2009, 2013), Gagosian London (2011), Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (2011) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Blain Southern, Berlin (2013). Douglas Gordon exhibited at ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2000. While mainly concentrating on video, his work also includes photography, texts, performance and installation.

PUBLICATION The catalogue includes an introduction by the curator and detailed notes on each of the 82 videos and some anecdotes by the artist himself. It is published by Walther König.

Douglas Gordon - Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now.
installation in permanent collection

artists:
Douglas Gordon

curator:
Odile Burluraux

director:
Fabrice Hergott