Langlands & Bell (B. 1955 & 1959)

Maisons de Force

细节

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.

出版

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).

展览

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.

拍品专文

"Langlands & Bell's chairs and tables are metaphors for the body and society. Their minimalist white furniture acts as a link between ourselves and the architectonic spaces that both enable and constrain us. Models of institutional buildings such as prisons are encased within tables and chairs, conflating the boundaries between public and private, between bodies and organisms of power. 'Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection', London, 1997, p.201).