Edition 2011
Douglas Gordon
Born in Glasgow in 1966.
The child prodigy of the Young British Generation of the early 1990s, he won the prestigious Turner prize in 1996 and in 2006 he was—after Robert Rauschenberg —the second artist (and first Scotsman) under forty to be given a solo exhibition at MoMA. Known for video installations drawing on movies and pop culture— Hitchcock, Warhol, The Clash, The Rolling Stones—he uses potent imagery to destroy today’s iconic figures by cutting out their eyes and replacing them with mirrors (Garbo, Brando, Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman) or by destroying them with fire (Al Pacino, Bette Davis, Robert de Niro). A combination of texts, tattoos on his body, and video and photo installations formed a new language that was celebrated at an exhibition at the Collection Lambert, which has more than fifty of his works.
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