Art & Language
Art & Language Cv
The activities of Art & Language have been marked from the outset by practical variety, by resistance to easy categorisation and by a tendency to provoke open and reflexive enquiry. Art & Language's earliest works date from before 1968, when the name was first adopted as the name of an artistic practice. In the following year, the first issue of the journal Art-Language was published in England. Then and over the next few years Art & Language provided a common identity for a number of people already involved in various types of collaboration. The mid 1960s had seen widespread collapse in the authority of those individualistic cultural protocols which go under the name of Modernism, and the coming together of the two terms 'Art' and 'Language' served to recognise a range of intellectual concerns and artistic expedients which that collapse had occasioned. For a variety of activities which bore practically and critically upon the concept of art, but which were at home neither in the studio nor in the gallery, Art & Language promised a social base in shared conversation. That conversation in turn transformed the practice of those involved and generated other kinds of work.Since 1977, Art & Language has been identified with the collaborative work of Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, and with their theoretical and critical collaboration with Charles Harrison.
Art and Language live and work in Middleton Cheney, Oxfordshire
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Art & Language Press
Art Monthly, 1st March 2010
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'Emergency Conditionals'
Published in Philosophy and Conceptual Art, edited by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Oxford University Press, 2007
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Published in Philosophy and Conceptual Art, edited by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Oxford University Press, 2007
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Art & Language Exhibitions
Art & Language March 9 - April 2, 1983
Art & Language March 7 - April 3, 1980
Art & Language February 11 - March 8, 1975
Art & Language Public Exhibitions
CURRENTAlgumas obras a ler — Colecção Eric Fabre
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
31 May - 22 August
Museu Colecção Berardo
Animism
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
15 May 2010- 18 July 2010
Kunsthalle Bern
PAST
Art & Language
Conceptual Art Classic, EMMA, Espoo, Finland
14 October 2009 - 10 January 2010
EMMA
Art & Language
CAC Málaga, Spain
3 September 2004
CAC MÁlaga
Too Dark to Read: Motifs Rétrospectifs
Musée d'art moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve
26 January 2002
Musée d'art moderne de Lille Métropole
Art & Language Catalogues and Editions
Art & Language Images
Lovely Sighs, 2009 Oil and acrylic on canvas and mixed media Framed picture: 160 x 131.5 x 27 cm. Chair: 85 x 40 x 33.5 cm
Portrait of President George W. Bush Wearing a Cowboy Hat in the Style of Jackson Pollock's 'Untitled (Mural)', 1950, in the Collection of the Teheran Museum of Art, 2007
Sighs Trapped by Liars 910 - 1027, 2004 Alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media 12 tables at 59 x 85 x 79 cm each
Mother, Father; Monday, 2001-02 Acrylic on canvas, glass and wooden vitrines, metal tables 630 x 382 cm
Homes From Homes, 2000-01 Installation view Musee D'art Moderne Lille Metropole, France, 26 January - 18 May 2002
Homes From Homes, 2000-01 Installation view Lisson Gallery 15 November 2002 - 18 January 2003
Installation view Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 15 April - 27 June, 1999
Installation view P.S.1, New York 1999
Index: Wrongs Healed in Official Hope, 1998-9 Alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media Dimensions variable
Index 01, 1972 Dimensions variable
Secret Painting, 1967-68 Liquitex on canvas and photostat Dimensions variable
Abstract Art (No 7), 1967 Silkscreen on canvas 38 x 61 cm
Art & Language Contact
General Sales Enquiries: Michelle D'Souza michelle@lissongallery.com +44 (0)207 535 3452Museums and Foundations Acquisitions collections@lissongallery.com +44 (0)207 535 7354
Artist and Exhibitions Enquiries: Greg Hilty greg@lissongallery.com +44 (0)207 535 3466