Figuring Grounds
Gary Hill
Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, Barcelona
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- Títol
- Figuring Grounds
- Galeria
- Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, Barcelona
- Any
- 1985-2008
- Fomart tècnic
- 7 min 19 s
- Format & Tècnica
Single channel, Colour, Sound,
Gary Hill is one of the most influential contemporary artists to investigate the myriad relationships between words and electronic images. His inquiries into linguistics and consciousness offer resonant philosophical and poetic insights, as he explores the formal conjunctions of electronic experimental rigor, conceptual precisión and imaginative leaps of Discovery, Hill’s work in video is about, and is, a new form of writing.
Edited by Ediciones Polígrafa in Barcelona, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings (2009) is one of the major books published on the artista to date. Authors George Quasha and charles Stein, who met Hill on mid-1970’s, analyze the artist’s entire career, paying particular attention to the single cannel video Works, where he explored the intersexuality of image, synthesized imagery and postminimal political statements. Covering Hill’s oeuvre, this monograph features a comprehensive chronology of his work, including important production details. A careful selection of Key writings by the artista is also included. A Selected edition of 150 copies includes Hill’s video Figuring Grounds, featuring the authors George Quasha and Charles Stein.
- Premi d'adquisició Loop Fair 2009
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Gary Hill
- Artist
1951, Santa Monica
Gary Hill has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance since the early 1970’s. His longtime work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity.
Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, among others. Commissioned projects include works for the Science Museum in London and the Seattle Central Public Library in Seattle, Washington, and an installation and performance work for the Coliseum and Temple of Venus and Rome in Italy. Hill has received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale (1995), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (1998), the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis (2000), and honorary degrees from The Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2005) and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle (2011). He was recently awarded the Genius Award in Film by The Stranger, Seattle 2011.
Recent projects include directing Beethoven’s opera Fidelio which premiered at the Lyon Opera House, Feedback Path, a monumental multi projection installation in the Grotte du Mas D’Azil, France and a residency at the Pilchuck Glass School. His son, Anton Lumen Hill, was born in 2014.
4 April 2017