Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus
21st September 2019 - 12th January 2020
Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
NG1 2GB
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Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
NG1 2GB
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Pushing Paper
12th September 2019 - 12th January 2020
British Museum
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
London
WC1B 3DG
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British Museum
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
London
WC1B 3DG
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The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art, published by Ridinghouse, 2019
Celebrated art critic and curator Guy Brett brings together a unique gathering of artists, tracing their diversity and singularity through 14 essays. In Liliane Lijn, Wavering Line of Light, Brett discusses, Lijn's Light Columns, 1964-1971, as an example of her "wonderful re-invention of industrial materials, taking them from practical usages to create a new, poetic object."
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DRAF Study #18 Cosmic Flares III, published by David Robert’s Art Foundation, 2019
An extensive exploration of the David Roberts Collection led curator and writer Amy Budd to discover Cosmic Flares III by Liliane Lijn and, this 1966 work became the focus of her study.
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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, 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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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
3 July 2019, 4.30pm
Nexus - University of Leeds
Lijn will discuss 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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Nexus - University of Leeds
Lijn will discuss 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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Great Women Artists, published by Phaidon, 2019
The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, introduced by Rebecca Morrill and featuring Liliane Lijn and her work, Time is Change, 1968.
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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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Fossil Twist, 2018/2019
Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Cosmic Sea I, 2019
I am interested in the behaviour of different materials and how they interact with each other. Cosmic Fragments are traces of a collision between an ancient material, glass, and a new composite material, Vapourshield, designed to prevent metal vapour from passing through the walls of the crucible in induction furnaces.
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