Douglas Gordon. (Preview).HAYWARD GALLERY If you look hard enough, can you find a precise point at which opposites touch and come apart--when, for example, life becomes death, present becomes past, singular becomes plural PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one. 2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the testator, died without children, and he died leaving one , or right becomes wrong? Gordon pursues the question with grim determination, his experiments often seeming like exercises in vivisection vivisection (vĭv'ĭsĕk`shən), dissection of living animals for experimental purposes. The use of the term in recent years has been expanded to include all experimentation on living animals, rather than just dissection alone. . "Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied art first there (at the Glasgow School of Art) from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School from 1988-1990 in London. His first solo show was in 1986. : What Have I Done?"--planned around a "ghosted" autobiography of the artist by novelist Andrew O'Hagan Andrew O'Hagan (born 1968) is a Scottish writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists. and art historian Francis McKee--threatens to take a scalpel to the delicate area where "Gordon" becomes "not-Gordon." Curated by Artangel's James Lingwood (organizer of Feature Film's stunning first showing in and the Hayward's Fiona Bradley, the show comprises some dozen works from the past decade. Nov. 1-Jan. 5. |
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