Details
Langlands & Bell (B. 1955 & 1959)
Maisons de Force
7 chairs containing 7 prison plans; San Diego, USA; Vienna, Austria; Suffolk, England; Rebibia, Italy; Hameln, Germany; Erlestoke, USA; Bridewell, Scotland
each: 54 x 16 x 16in. (92 x 42 x 40cm.)
Executed in 1991
Other work by this artist is included in 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection', currently on view at the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Literature
S. Kent & J. Blyth, "Shark Infested Waters - The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s", London 1994, p. 181 (illustrated in colour).
J.-M. Hitorel, "L'ombre blanche', Basse-Normandie 1996, pp. 22-23 (illustrated).
Impresiones Trimestral de The British Council en Espana, no. 2, January 1997, (illustration of detail on the front cover).
Exhibited
London, The Saatchi Gallery, "Young British Artists I", March-Oct. 1992.
Rome, Valentina Moncada, "Langlands & Bell", November 1991 (illustrated in the catalogue, no. 5).
Orleans, FRAC, May-July 1993.
Cologne, Art Cologne, "Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection", 1993 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour p.41). Bordeaux, CAPC Muse d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, "Architecture(s)", Oct. 1995-Jan. 1996 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, p. 31).
Lisbon, Quartos Duplos, Centro d'Arte Moderna Jos de Azeredo Perdigo, Sept.-Dec. 1996 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour p. 85).
Donostia - San Sebastian, KM Kulturunea Erakustaretua, 'Langlands & Bell', Jan.-March 1997 (illustrated on the cover of the exhibition publication).
London, Serpentine Gallery, 'Langlands & Bell', April-May 1996 (illustrated in the catalogue, no. 28). This exhibition also travelled to Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, June-July 1996 and New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, March-April 1997.
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