Art versus building

Art and Architecture

Liam Gillick’s exterior at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, Vancouver.

In 1996, a groundbreaking exhibit etitled “Traffic” took place at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, examining the role of Relational Aesthetics in art. The real product of the show, however, was the rise of a young artist named Liam Gillick. Since “Traffic,” Gillick has become known as a hybrid artist/designer, fusing the architectural with the theoretical though projects that focus on text and type in the built world. Gillick’s art is an attempt to understand the function of signs and symbols in the built world - more on that after the jump, and a roundup of the textual side of architecture.

Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives in New York City

Liam Gillick wrapped the quote, “Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street,” around exterior of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, Vancouver.

http://www.liamgillick.info