Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick (b. 1964) is a British artist. His edition for Esther Schipper, Berlin, produced by Agricola Due Leoni sounds like a song. “Like a Virgin,” conjures up Madonna, but is also a play on the nature of the content: extra virgin olive oil. Gillick often works with music, and one of his most recent collaborations included the visual staging of a series of New Order concerts. This edition was commissioned by one of the world’s preeminent gallerists.

The generation of artists after Minimalism and Conceptual art often dealt with their predecessors with a tool borrowed from Pop Art -- irony. Gillick’s early works explored color theory and the shaving down of form to elemental shapes in material combinations and configurations that completely altered the work of mentors such as Donald Judd. He is the first generation to use a technique of verisimilitude, inhabiting prior sculptural idioms with slippages that seem almost algorithmic. Cornelia has worked on various projects with Gillick including the production of an artist’s book for Two Star Books, designed by M/M Paris, and inclusion in her exhibitions on certificates of authenticity and carpets by artists.