The Fabricated Object

Building on Michael Petry's book, The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship, this group exhibition explores some of the different factors that motivate artists to use assistants or make outsourcing part of their practice today.

28th November 2012 - 18th January 2013

Sumarria Lunn, 36 South Molton Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB
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Glass Wave Plates, 2012

Lijn has used glass in her work, since the 1960’s. The Glass Wave Plates were originally made as playful experiments, while she was working on her Torn Heads series at the Hergiswil Glasi in Switzerland.
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Caution Matter, 2012

Caution Matter is an immersive moving image presentation that explores connections between invisible energies, latent both in ancient archetypes and myths and in the huge diversity of transformational technologies operative today.
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Light Pyramid, 2012

Commissioned by MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Parks Trust as a sculpture beacon. Geometry and Light are the guiding threads of Lijn's work. The central concept of this sculpture is that of energy held within matter.
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Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon Book Launch

6-8pm Tuesday 15th May 2012, Free Entry

Koenig Books, 80 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0BB

This 728-page tome commemorates the Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon 2009. The book launch at Koenig Books will include poetry readings by Michael Horovitz and Liliane Lijn, a discussion and refreshments.
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Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language

6th May – 27th August 2012, MoMA, New York

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of language—visual, aural, and beyond.
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Solar Beacon, Golden Gate Bridge, 2012

Solar Beacon is a sci-art installation on top of the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge that reflects the Sun's light throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrating the man-made structure's 75th anniversary. It is a white-light variation of Solar Hills, the ongoing collaboration between John Vallerga and Liliane Lijn to delineate the horizon with point of spectral light. Observers of Solar Beacon will see two points of white light, one on each tower top, that are as bright as the Sun, but much smaller in size.
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Power Game, Zabludowicz Collection, London

19th April 2012

Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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