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.


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Art & Language Press

CultureCritic talks to Art and LanguageFebruary 2010
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Art Monthly1st March 2010
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'Emergency Conditionals'2007
Published in Philosophy and Conceptual Art, edited by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Oxford University Press, 2007
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'A Place to Work'2007
Museum International No 235, UNESCO publications, 2007
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'Voices Off'2006
Critical Inquiry, Volume 33, Number 1, Autumn, 2006.
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Art & Language Public Exhibitions

PAST

Invisible - Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012
Group exhibition Hayward Gallery, London
12 June - 5 August 2012
Hayward Gallery

Art & Language
migros museum für gegenwarts­kunst, Zurich
28 March - 15 April 2012
migros museum für gegenwartskunst

Goshka Macuga - Kabinett der Abstrakten (after El Lissitzky), 2003
In Dialogue with Leeds Art Fund Centenary Collection Displays
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
22 March
Leeds Art Gallery

Wander, Labyrinthine Variations
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
12 September 2011 - 5 March 2012
Centre Pompidou-Metz

Homo Economicus curated by David Bussel
MD 72 Berlin
11 December 2011 - 18 February 2012
MD 72

Portraits and a Dream: Art & Language
Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
3 October 2011 - 16 December 2011
University of Kent

Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
23 June - 25 September 2011
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Algumas obras a ler — Colecção Eric Fabre
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
31 May - 22 August 2010
Museu Colecção Berardo

Animism
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
15 May 2010- 18 July 2010
Kunsthalle Bern

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 Images

<I>Lovely Sighs</I>, 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
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
<i>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, </i>2007
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
<i>Sighs Trapped by Liars </i>910 - 1027, 2004
Alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media
12 tables at 59 x 85 x 79 cm each
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
<i>Mother, Father; Monday,</i> 2001-02
Acrylic on canvas, glass and wooden vitrines, metal tables 
630 x 382 cm
Mother, Father; Monday, 2001-02 Acrylic on canvas, glass and wooden vitrines, metal tables 630 x 382 cm
<i>Homes From Homes,</i> 2000-01
Installation view
Musee D'art Moderne Lille Metropole, France, 
26 January - 18 May 2002
Homes From Homes, 2000-01 Installation view Musee D'art Moderne Lille Metropole, France, 26 January - 18 May 2002
<i>Homes From Homes,</i> 2000-01
Installation view
Lisson Gallery
15 November 2002 - 18 January 2003
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 Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 15 April - 27 June, 1999
Installation view 
P.S.1, New York
1999
Installation view P.S.1, New York 1999
<i>Index: Wrongs Healed in Official Hope,</i> 1998-9
Alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media
Dimensions variable
Index: Wrongs Healed in Official Hope, 1998-9 Alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media Dimensions variable
<i>Index 01</i>, 1972
Dimensions variable
Index 01, 1972 Dimensions variable
<i>Secret Painting, </i>1967-68
Liquitex on canvas and photostat
Dimensions variable
Secret Painting, 1967-68 Liquitex on canvas and photostat Dimensions variable
<i>Abstract Art (No 7), </i>1967
Silkscreen on canvas
38 x 61 cm
Abstract Art (No 7), 1967 Silkscreen on canvas 38 x 61 cm

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