Takis and Liliane Lijn

Farewell Takis

To all friends who have not heard the sad news, Takis, now finally showing at Tate Modern, is no longer. He died on the 9th of August in his home and the centre of his foundation, Kete, Gero Vouno, in Greece.
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Converse Column, commissioned by Nexus, Leeds University, 2019

Nexus, Leeds University has commissioned the permanent installation Converse Column.

A nine-meter high revolving column of transforming words, Converse Column is sited adjacent to Nexus, the University’s new centre, designed to inspire collaboration and innovation with real world impact.
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Converse Column Launch, 2019

3 July 2019, 4.30pm

Nexus - University of Leeds

Lijn discussed her work, influences and major new commission for the University of Leeds, with Leeds Art Gallery’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nigel Walsh.
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SHE

2 May 2019 – 29 May 2019

RODEO
125 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0EW
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Library of Light, published by Lund Humphries, 2019

Library of Light: encounters with artists and designers by Jo Joelson is structured around twenty-five interviews and four thematic essays. The interview with Liliane Lijn reveals an early fascination with light from her childhood in New York and her subsequent focus on the poetry of light, light as a language and the science of light.
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The WORD is Art, published by Thames & Hudson, 2018

Michael Petry's global overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work, including a broad range of artists; Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Liliane Lijn, Shirin Neshat and many more. Liliane Lijn's text based works are featured, including moonmeme, 1992 and ABC Cone, 1965.
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