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Artist Statement
In Douglas Gordon’s view, the greatest public art installation in history took place in his hometown Glasgow in 1988. Celtic were playing Dundee in the Scottish Cup final, though the art didn’t happen on the pitch but in the stands. The British prime minister had announced her attendance, and union representatives were handing out red leaflets to every spectator at the gates.
“Margaret Thatcher walks into the stadium, and the entire crowd shows her the red card. Isn’t that fantastic?”, he says, sitting in his grand new studio in one of the seedier corners of west Berlin, dropping cigarette ash on the floor with excitement.
bio
Douglas Gordon was born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received a B.A. at the Glasgow School of Art in 1988 and graduated from the Slade School of Art in London in 1990. Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.
exhibition
Gordon's first solo show was in 1986. In 1993, he exhibited 24 Hour Psycho in the spaces of Tramway, Glasgow, and at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The Berlin show was curated by Klaus Biesenbach. In 1996, Gordon was one of the artists invited to Skulptur Projekte Münster, and in 1997 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. His work was the subject of a 2001 retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 2005, he put together an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin called The Vanity of Allegory. In 2006, Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural opened at the National Galleries of Scotland complex in Edinburgh, being Gordon's first major solo exhibition in Scotland since he presented 24 Hour Psycho in 1993. Also in 2006, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York showed a retrospective of Gordon's work, called Timeline, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Another 2006 retrospective was on view at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. A survey of his textworks was shown at Tate Britain, London in 2010. Retrospective solo exhibitions were shown at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main in 2011 to 2012, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2013 and at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne in 2014. Further solo exhibitions have been held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 2013, Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2014. Gordon took part in the Biennale of Sydney 2014 and Documenta 17
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Douglas Gordon: back and forth and forth and back at Gagosian West 21st Street, New York
This video shows the exhibition of works by Douglas Gordon presented at Gagosian West 21st Street, New York. "Back and forth and forth and back" is an exhibition of Gordon's key films and videos, including "24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro" (2008), as well as a selection of video monitor works. In his projections, installations, photographs, text works, performances, and more, Gordon investigates collective memory and selfhood, whether divided, fragmented, or dissolved altogether. His interest in temporal manipulation is especially evident in his films and videos; using his own work and that of others as raw material, he distorts time in order to disorient and challenge: http://on.gagosian.com/nGxthou __________ Installation video, "Douglas Gordon: back and forth and forth and back," November 14, 2017–February 3, 2018, Gagosian West 21st Street, New York. Artworks © Studio lost but found. Video by Bert Ross/Courtesy Studio lost but found. If you would like to use this video, please contact newyork@gagosian.com,
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