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, 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

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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SHE

Liliane Lijn SHE

13 September 2018 - 12 January 2019

RODEO
125 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0EW
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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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Magma Cuff (Gold), 2008/2019

In the Old Hebrew testament, ‘glebe’ was the primal earth, from which the first humans were formed. 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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