In 1993, he exhibited 24 Hour Psycho in the spaces of Tramway, Glasgow, and at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon has made a film about Korea’s Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the strip of land separating North and South Korea. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1984 - 1988 and the Slade School of Art, London, 1988 - 1990. Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. This key work is deceptively simple, but has devastating consequences, exposing the way that memory works in the flow of our consciousness. [23] His color photograph Monster (1996-7) is in the permanent collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Douglas Gordon is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his ability to disrupt preconceived ideas about reality. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently and all simultaneously." In 1996, he became the first video artist to win the Turner Prize. Featuring an extensive interview with Douglas Gordon on the process of making his 2016 film I had nowhere to go: Portrait of a displaced person, this video, produced by Berlin Art Link, includes clips of Jonas Mekas and revealing anecdotes about the creation of the film. He uses techniques of doubling and mirroring in works including Divided Self I and II (1996), a video showing a smooth arm and a hairy arm wrestling. 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. ARTIST ROOMS is a touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art. [3] In Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), William Friedkin's Exorcist (1973) and Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943) - two films about adolescent girls driven by external forces[4] - are projected on either side of a single free-standing semi-transparent screen so they can be seen simultaneously. In 2010, Gordon collaborated with Rufus Wainwright, creating the visuals for his tour which accompany Rufus' All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu album. In Through a looking glass (1999), Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic 71-second scene in Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver (1976), in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself. Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist who creates work that questions the complexities of memory and perception. The text installation List of Names (1990–ongoing) also explores the role of memory. [5] The video installation left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right (1999) presents two projections of Otto Preminger's Whirlpool (1949) side by side, with the one on the right reversed so that the two sides mirror each other; by digital means, Gordon separated individual frames of the original film so that odd-numbered ones on one side alternate with even-numbered ones on the other. In a way, it is a self-portrait, since we are what we remember. The feature-length film, which he co-directed with fellow artist Philippe Parreno and assembled from footage shot by seventeen synchronized cameras placed around the stadium in real time over the course of a single match,[9] premiered outside the competition of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival before screenings at numerous international venues. In 24 Hour Psycho (1993), Gordon takes Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1960 film Psycho and slows it down so that it runs for twenty-four hours. 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. By separating the image this way Gordon alludes to the relationship between the body and mind. The two screens are virtually the same size as the elephant. In Gordon’s world nothing is good or evil – but both at the same time. Mostly, he uses the so-called "found footage", which he produces a minimal intervention worked. © Studio lost but found / Douglas Gordon / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019 Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London … 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. Douglas Gordon makes videos, installations, photographs and text pieces, using both found and original material, in an attempt to lay bare the ambiguities of human life. They should do it every day, and should love what they buy' Mon 17 May 2010 17.20 EDT First published on Mon 17 May 2010 17.20 EDT Onto the huge, free-standing screens which form part of the video installation Play Dead, Real Time 2003 images are projected of an elephant acting out an old circus trick: playing dead. Gordon took part in the Biennale of Sydney 2014 and Documenta 17. , an installation of more than eighty text-based works, opened at Tate Britain, London, in 2010. Gesture and facial expression are the only clues we have to what is going on in the conductor’s mind – all except, of course, for the music. Douglas Gordon follow aGothic, 2019 Tête de corbeau taxidermisée, carafe, pinceau, aquarelle, eau, miroir / Taxidermy raven head, jug, paintbrush, watercolour, water, mirror 36 x 36 x 42cm (14,17 x 14,17 x 16,54 in.) Artworks Scotland (2004– ) Rate This. A question mark would have transformed it into a lunatic s lament, a lazy guy s sigh, a murderer s moment of clarity. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. The work I am the curator of my own misery 2010, is an example, which prompts questions of perception and meaning. [17][18] The Guggenheim collection also include Through a Looking Glass (1999) and Tattoo (for Reflection) by Gordon. Artwork Info Artwork title Self-Portrait of You + Me (Catherine Deneuve) Artist name Douglas Gordon Date created 2007 Classification photograph Medium burned inkjet print and mirror in artist's frame Dimensions 10 3/8 in. Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by Douglas Gordon. The artist attempted to remember everyone he had ever met. In 2008, Gordon was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. 24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. 30min | Documentary | Episode aired 9 March 2010 Previous All Episodes (22) Next Add a Plot » Stars: Douglas Gordon, Shirley Manson. This biography is from Wikipedia under … It is above all, his film projects, the Douglas Gordon have made known. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. (1999), an array of video monitors showing a lifetime of Gordon’s creative achievements, is a series of windows into his mind. Gordon is fascinated by our binary nature and our tendency to split things into opposites: black and white, good and evil. Film Noir (Fly) is a black and white video projection showing a close-up of a fly lying on its back, intermittently twitching its legs but unable to get up. Memory, loss and rediscovery are the fixed points of the thematic work of Douglas Gordon. The video work Film Noir (Fly) 1995 – depicting a fly in close-up, fixed to a table top by its wings as it struggles and eventually dies – demonstrates how a simple image can produce complex or even troubling readings. [email protected]. Douglas Gordon is a contemporary Scottish artist known for his ability to disrupt preconceived ideas about reality. Please consider making a donation or joining our Friends. When Shirley Manson Met Douglas Gordon . 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