Douglas Gordon(V)
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There he initially studied at the School of Art from 1984 to 1988. He was then accepted into a master's program for two years at the Slade School of Art in Glasgow. In his video work "24 Hour Psycho", created in 1993, the artist works with a standard video cassette. He edited Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" using slow motion technology, extending it to a total of 24 hours. Since then, Gordon has devoted himself primarily to the alienation of cinema images and film stars. As part of this work, he made the statement "Cinema is dead", which increased his popularity. His alienation techniques help him to transform well-known cinematic images and myths into works of art and to revive them in new ways.
For the artist, who himself grew up with television, the question behind this is often the question of good and bad values. His video installations also include titles such as "Between Darkness and Light" (1997), Feature Film (1999) or "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait", a collaboration with the French director Philippe Parreno, in which the French football star and national team player Zine Zidane is portrayed. In his star series, Douglas Gordon distorts images of rock and film stars not only by exposing them to fire, but also with additives such as pork knuckles, sugar, eggs, shampoo, sperm or urine. Or he cuts out their eyes and puts the photos on mirrors. For the artist himself, these techniques resemble voodoo magic.
He showed pictures of stars with cut-out eyes for the first time at the "Blind Stars" exhibition. He later exposed the same images to fire in order to further alienate them - with the ambivalent effect of deification and destruction. In his installations, Douglas Gordon almost exclusively uses photos of stars who are no longer alive. His image experiments also aim to uncover the charismatic power of stars - a kind of dissection process. Gordon's conceptual image installations also make it clear that he makes a strict distinction between the status of star and celebrity, with the latter being inferior for him. Douglas Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize (1996), the Central Art Prize (1998) and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize in 2008, among others.
Gordon lives and works not only in Glasgow, but also in Berlin and New York.
For the artist, who himself grew up with television, the question behind this is often the question of good and bad values. His video installations also include titles such as "Between Darkness and Light" (1997), Feature Film (1999) or "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait", a collaboration with the French director Philippe Parreno, in which the French football star and national team player Zine Zidane is portrayed. In his star series, Douglas Gordon distorts images of rock and film stars not only by exposing them to fire, but also with additives such as pork knuckles, sugar, eggs, shampoo, sperm or urine. Or he cuts out their eyes and puts the photos on mirrors. For the artist himself, these techniques resemble voodoo magic.
He showed pictures of stars with cut-out eyes for the first time at the "Blind Stars" exhibition. He later exposed the same images to fire in order to further alienate them - with the ambivalent effect of deification and destruction. In his installations, Douglas Gordon almost exclusively uses photos of stars who are no longer alive. His image experiments also aim to uncover the charismatic power of stars - a kind of dissection process. Gordon's conceptual image installations also make it clear that he makes a strict distinction between the status of star and celebrity, with the latter being inferior for him. Douglas Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize (1996), the Central Art Prize (1998) and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize in 2008, among others.
Gordon lives and works not only in Glasgow, but also in Berlin and New York.
