Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, 159 pages, W240mm x H285mm
This catalogue accompanies Martin Boyce's exhibitions at
Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Frac des Pays de la Loire and Ikon Gallery
in 2008.
Martin Boyce is interested in urban landscape, transforming
galleries with groups of works which poetically recall conventional
public areas; for example, the playground or the pedestrian subway.
The artist is one of the most original of the Scottish artists who
came to international prominence during the 1990s. He works at the
interface of design, architecture, and the social environment.
For this major exhibition, the artist creates ‘a place out of time’.
Individual works comprising sculptural forms are reminiscent
nostalgically of the phone booth, the streetlamp and the recliner. Ikon
Gallery presented a series of new works made especially for their
gallery spaces alongside recent pieces never before seen in the UK.
Estranged from their original place and purpose, Boyce’s subjects
draw on the visual language and fabrication of iconic Modernist designs
to form an eerie dreamlike landscape. We are encouraged to consider
alternative lives for them, away from their natural habitats.
This is a joint publication between Ikon Gallery, Frac des Pays de
la Loire, Westfälischer Kunstverein and produced by JRP|Ringier.