Design For The Side Of A Building (Were People This Dumb Before TV?), 2000
Lambda-Print

Liam Gillick uses language as oblique reference but also as strategic tool. This phrase is a recurring motif that the artist first used in his 1997 book DISCUSSION ISLAND: BIG CONFERENCE CENTRE. The following year he exhibited the text work on the wall as a post-textual device in relation to the project in general in the group exhibition LIAM GILLICK, JOHN MILLER, JOE SCANLAN at RAK in Vienna. Since then it has recurred, in English and French, as poster, design for a wall banner, cover design for the magazine ArtMonthly, and the digital magazine Fly and also as wall work in several of the artist’s solo exhibitions.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti