The Turner prize winner for 2011, Martin Boyce, engages with the historical legacy of Modernist forms and ideals to create deeply atmospheric installations drawing upon text and elements of design. His investigations will often re-stage the outside within the gallery space, evoking the urban landscape through precisely explored sculptural details.
His work combines references to design history and text and is marked by a subtle attention to detail. Steeped in an understanding of the concepts of Modernist design, his work draws upon its visual language with a complex repertoire of forms.
Noted for his engagement with how these objects are produced, the talented artist is interested in how their original political or aesthetic ethos changes over time. His meticulous sculptures bear out his imaginings for the alternative lives these objects might lead if created at a different moment.
Martin Boyce was born in Hamilton, Scotland in 1967. He was awarded a BA in 1990 and an MA in 1997, both from Glasgow School of Art. His solo exhibitions include ‘A Library of Leaves’ at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2010), ‘No Reflections’ for the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and ‘That Blows Through Concrete Leaves’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2007). For his solo at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, which built upon his project for the 53rd Venice Biennale by holding the viewers within an atmospheric sculptural installation.
Other solos include ‘Out of This Sun, Into This Shadow’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008), ‘For 1959 Capital Avenue’, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2002), ‘Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours’, Tramway, Glasgow (2002) and ‘When Now is Night’, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (1999). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as ‘Modern British Sculpture’, Royal Academy, London (2011), ‘The New Décor’, Hayward Gallery, London (2010) and ‘We Burn, We Shiver’, Sculpture Centre, New York (2008).
(Information courtesy: The Turner)
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