Image:Work No. 1071 2007 – 2011 35mm film, black and white, silent 2 minutes 37 seconds © Martin Creed Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
21 January – 5 March 2011
Following a series of critically-acclaimed international solo shows, performances and installations this year and his residence in Edinburgh this summer, Martin Creed returns to London with a major exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s new Savile Row gallery. Creed will present a monumental new sculpture in the north gallery and works across a variety of media in the south gallery.
Creed will also release a single and video. In recent years Creed has worked on music, dance, writing, sculpture and painting: pieces ranging from compositions for symphony orchestra and music for elevators to architectural commissions, public monuments and dance and performances which combine classical ballet with talk, music, film and animation.
Image:Work No. 748 2007 Photographic print 35.5 x 38 cm / 14 x 15 in © Martin Creed Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
‘Martin Creed: Works’, a comprehensive survey of Creed’s art featuring more than 700 works, a foreword by the artist and essays by Germaine
Greer, Matthew Higgs, Barry Humphries and others, is published by Thames & Hudson.
Creed’s work is all-encompassing and seems to seek both to reassure and to confound expectations: ‘Trying to do what you want to do, trying to be free and trying not to do what other people want you to do. If you can do that, it’s amazing’.
