Martin Creed. The Lights Off

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Melbourne International Arts Festival present: Disarmingly empty, or deceptively full. These are but two of the physical and philosophical conundrums presented by artist Martin Creed. Noisy or quiet. Zen or zestful. Visible or invisible. Playful or serious. All of the above and more occur in Creed's catalogue of situational projects that makes use of the particularities of space and circumstance.

For this year's Festival, Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed will create an exclusive new work. Rooms with balloons, sounds, lights, smoke, neons and ambient lights: Creed's materials are light and playful; ordinary, yet transcendentally evocative. Creed recaptures the original spirit of conceptual art and adds his own zing to the thing in gestures both humble and monumental in their ethereal scope.

Following the credo of less is more, and understanding the fullness of silence, Martin Creed continues the investigations commenced by composer and conceptualist John Cage and combines this with a regard for the poetry of the Duchampian ready-made in an installation made sublime and light, wondrous and open.

Audiences are also invited to a special free public lecture given by Martin Creed at the Victorian College of the Arts on Friday 7 October.

Martin Creed
The Lights Off