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LIAM
GILLICK
McNamara
Motel: Selección de obras de texto 1990-2005
16
September - 5 November 2005
McNamara Motel is the first exhibition
of Gillick's work at an art centre in the country.
The written word is the main component of this
show, where the ideas and concepts are exhibited
in black vinyl on a white wall, all using the
same typeface (Helvetica bold). As the artist
himself says, the book-catalogue is the key to
understanding and giving meaning to the exhibition,
since it contains images that show the original
context of the works from which the phrases on
show have been taken. One wall shows the texts
in their original language (generally English)
and the one opposite the same texts translated
into Spanish. Gillick plays with time past,
present and future and intermingles stories
and characters which had no connection in their
original context. With a historical and social
base, he establishes a link between his works
and different spheres of society, such as space,
time, architecture or music.
As
Peio Aguirre explains in the text for the exhibition
catalogue, "the ambiguity and abstraction
of his works are no more than a will to an incompletion
which needs to be finished at some other time
and place". Through the combination of text,
design and installations, Gillick examines about
the way in which economic and social reality affects
people in order to explore alternative systems
and raise new questions which allow for new answers
far removed from any ideology, though dialectical
materialism is an underlying starting point for
the creation of his works.
The Centre exhibition room also contains two circular
benches, which Gillick designed for the 2003 Venice
Biennale, so that visitors can sit, look at, and
try to decipher his work as they examine the catalogue.
Another noteworthy aspect of this exhibition is
that it shows Gillick's more conceptual side,
as opposed to the visual part of his work, which
has appeared more frequently in his earlier exhibitions
at art galleries in Spain. The complexity of his
works, far removed from any fast or easy interpretation,
does not leave the public indifferent, but invites
them to experiment with thought and analysis.
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