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This exhibition of the work of Canadian artist Stan Douglas and Scottish artist Douglas Gordon includes a new media installation by each artist. Stan Douglas presents a work entitled Win, Place or Show, which takes as its point of departure a fundamental transformation in the organization of North American civic space in the 1960s. Douglas Gordon's new work, left is right and right is wrong and left is worng and right is right, appropriates a little-known film made in 1949 by Hollywood director Otto Preminger titled Whirlpool. Juxtaposed, the two works, which both utilize dual projection, reveal surprising correspondences with one another, while simultaneiously permitting each artists's singular concerns to emerge sharply.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Stan Douglas
Win, Place, or Show, 1998
two-channel video projection
200,000 variations of an average duration of 6 minutes each
Collection of the artist
2. Douglas Gordon
left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right, 1999
video installation
97 minutes
Collection of the artist
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Stan Douglas
Douglas, Stan. Samuel Beckett: Teleplays. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1988.
Stan Douglas . Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1994. Texts by Christine van Assche, Peter Culley, Stan Douglas, and Jean-Christophe Royoux.
Stan Douglas . London: Phaidon Press, 1998. Texts by Carol J. Clover, Stan Douglas, and Scott Watson, and an interview with Diana Thater.
Stan Douglas. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1999. Texts by Diana Augaitis, Stan Douglas, George Wagner, and William Wood.
Stan Douglas: Monodramas and Loops . Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992. Texts by Stan Douglas, John Fiske, and Scott Watson.
Stan Douglas: Television Spots . Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, 1988. Texts by Stan Douglas and Miriam Nichols.
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon. Gunma: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998. Interviews by Stéphanie Moisdon and Nancy Spector.
Douglas Gordon . Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover, 1998. Texts by Lynne Cooke, Charles Esche, Friedrich Meschede, and Eckhard Schneider.
Douglas Gordon. Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Belem, 1999. Texts by Christine van Assche, Raymond Bellour, Pavel Büchler, Jeremy Millar, and a conversation with Oscar van den Boogaard.
Douglas Gordon: Kidnapping Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1998. Texts by Thomas Lawson and Russell Ferguson, David Gordon, and Douglas Gordon, and a conversation with Jan Debbaut.
Newman, Michael. "Douglas Gordon, Screen Memories: The Trauma of Time." In At the Edge of Painting. Bern: Kunsthalle, 1995, pp. 101–105.
Parkett, no. 49 (May 1997). Special edition by Douglas Gordon. Texts by Tobia Bezzola, Russell Ferguson, Richard Flood, and Douglas Gordon and Liam Gillick, pp. 36–83.
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| Biography |
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Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works. Educated at the Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver, Douglas has exhibited widely since his first solo show in 1981. Among numerous group exhibitions, he was included in the 1995 Carnegie International, the 1995 Whitney Biennial, and the 1997 SkulpturProjekte in Münster, and Documenta X in Kassel. The retrospective that opened in February 1999 at the Vancouver Art Gallery will travel to Toronto, Tilburg (The Netherlands), and Los Angeles.
Douglas Gordon was born in 1966 in Glasgow, where, in addition to Cologne, he continues to live and work. After studying at the Glasgow School of Art from 1984 to 1988, Gordon undertook a graduate program at the Slade School of Art in London from 1988 to 1990. Since his first solo show in 1986, Gordon has exhibited extensively. He was the 1996 recipient of Britain's Turner Prize, and in 1997 was awarded Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennial. He was also included in the SkulpturProjekte in Münster in 1997.
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| Funding |
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Major funding for this exhibition is being provided by the Lannan Foundation with additional generous support from agnès b., New York and Paris, the British Columbia Arts Council, the British Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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