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 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

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