Glenn Ligon
21 Oct - 06 Dec 2008
© Figure, 2008
50 silkscreens portraits on color aid paper
9 x 6 inches ( 22,9 x 15,2 cm) each / 10 x 7 inches ( 25,4 x 17,8 cm) each frame
50 silkscreens portraits on color aid paper
9 x 6 inches ( 22,9 x 15,2 cm) each / 10 x 7 inches ( 25,4 x 17,8 cm) each frame
GLENN LIGON
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the secondpersonnal exhibition of American artist Glenn Ligon at the gallery. From October 21st throughDecember 6th, the artist will present variousworks, including two new large installations.
The first installation, Everything must go, consists of a neon presented in a window. The pieceevokes the noisy and seductive catch phrases of consumption society. Echoing this first piece,the second installation is entitled Tout doit disparaître. Made out of Parisian cobblestones, itrecalls the events of May 68 when students used those stones as weapons against the police,while fighting for social liberation. Through this installation, the artist aims to set his reflection inthe context of the French society which is hosting his exhibition.
Accompanying these two pieces, Glenn Ligon will present a series of 50 unique silkscreens. Eachof these Figure is a selfportrait of the artist: his head is represented from the front or from theback, showing and hiding the artist identity.
Glenn Ligon belongs to a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s on thestrength of conceptually based paintings and phototext works. They investigate the social,linguistic, and political constructions of races, gender and sexuality. Informed by his experiencesas an African American and as a gay man living in the United States, his art is a sustainedmeditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representationof self in relation to culture and history. It incorporates sources as diverse as James Baldwin’sliterary texts, Martin Luther King’s speeches, and Richard Pryor’s stand-up comedy routines. Thedevelopment of ideas around artmaking is central to his aspirations as an artist, both as theconceptual underpinning for his art and as a critique of the society in which we live.
Glenn Ligon (born in 1960) has exhibited in numerous institutions around the world. Lately, theexhibition Some Changes presented a large retrospective of his work, it travelled from the PowerPlant Contemporary Art Gallery of Toronto in 2005, to the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum,the Andy Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh in 2006, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Colombus andthe Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne de Luxembourg, in 2007.
About Yvon Lambert:Yvon Lambert opened Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris in 1967. The Collection Lambert in Avignonopened in 2000 and presents more than 350 works from Yvon Lambert’s personal collection.Yvon Lambert New York was founded in 2003, and in 2007 moved to its current location,designed by Richard Gluckman in collaboration with Thomas Zolli. Yvon Lambert will be openingan additional location in London on October 16, 2008.
Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the secondpersonnal exhibition of American artist Glenn Ligon at the gallery. From October 21st throughDecember 6th, the artist will present variousworks, including two new large installations.
The first installation, Everything must go, consists of a neon presented in a window. The pieceevokes the noisy and seductive catch phrases of consumption society. Echoing this first piece,the second installation is entitled Tout doit disparaître. Made out of Parisian cobblestones, itrecalls the events of May 68 when students used those stones as weapons against the police,while fighting for social liberation. Through this installation, the artist aims to set his reflection inthe context of the French society which is hosting his exhibition.
Accompanying these two pieces, Glenn Ligon will present a series of 50 unique silkscreens. Eachof these Figure is a selfportrait of the artist: his head is represented from the front or from theback, showing and hiding the artist identity.
Glenn Ligon belongs to a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s on thestrength of conceptually based paintings and phototext works. They investigate the social,linguistic, and political constructions of races, gender and sexuality. Informed by his experiencesas an African American and as a gay man living in the United States, his art is a sustainedmeditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representationof self in relation to culture and history. It incorporates sources as diverse as James Baldwin’sliterary texts, Martin Luther King’s speeches, and Richard Pryor’s stand-up comedy routines. Thedevelopment of ideas around artmaking is central to his aspirations as an artist, both as theconceptual underpinning for his art and as a critique of the society in which we live.
Glenn Ligon (born in 1960) has exhibited in numerous institutions around the world. Lately, theexhibition Some Changes presented a large retrospective of his work, it travelled from the PowerPlant Contemporary Art Gallery of Toronto in 2005, to the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum,the Andy Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh in 2006, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Colombus andthe Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne de Luxembourg, in 2007.
About Yvon Lambert:Yvon Lambert opened Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris in 1967. The Collection Lambert in Avignonopened in 2000 and presents more than 350 works from Yvon Lambert’s personal collection.Yvon Lambert New York was founded in 2003, and in 2007 moved to its current location,designed by Richard Gluckman in collaboration with Thomas Zolli. Yvon Lambert will be openingan additional location in London on October 16, 2008.