{"id":404,"date":"2003-07-19T06:06:32","date_gmt":"2003-07-19T06:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2008-10-27T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T06:12:33","slug":"liam-gillick-at-casey-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/19\/liam-gillick-at-casey-kaplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Gillick, at Casey Kaplan"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ magazine
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Liam Gillick, Reconciliation Corral, 2003. Installation view, courtesy Casey Kaplan<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nLiam Gillick offered a new take on glitzy art openings by washing the floor of Casey Kaplan\u2019s gallery with cheap vodka and covering it with black glitter. Visitors tracked the sparkly stuff into the main space, where a row of aluminum corrals as colorful as jungle gyms faced a line of black text on the wall opposite. Arranged in a broken Greek key pattern and missing the usual colored Plexiglas panels, Gillick\u2019s architectural sculptures tempted viewers to interact with them. On the wall, a repeated text reading, \u2018sit now on a ridge,\u2019 referred to a journey described in the artist\u2019s recent book, \u2018Literally No Place\u2019 (a translation of the word utopia), which in turn was inspired by behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner\u2019s proposals to alter human behavior through environmental stimuli.<\/p>\n

Without reading Gillick\u2019s book, which was not part of the exhibition, it was next to impossible to understand what was taking place, particularly with the unnecessary glitter and vodka element. The show was elegant but so highly conceptual that viewers who bought the book instead of the art came out ahead. Gillick\u2019s signature retro-chic sculptures are meant to provoke discussion about how the built environment effects human thought and behavior, but it\u2019s only in his writing that these complex investigations into social science are developed. Structured as a series of proposals for fictional stories, the book forces the issue of how space is constructed, and it\u2019s here that the audience is taken \u2018literally some place.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ magazine Liam Gillick offered a new take on glitzy art openings by washing the floor of Casey Kaplan\u2019s gallery with cheap vodka and covering it with black glitter. Visitors tracked the sparkly stuff into the main space, where a row of aluminum corrals as colorful as jungle gyms faced a line of … <\/p>\n

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