Douglas Gordon: Timeline
June 11–September 4, 2006
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor
The René d' Harnoncourt Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor
Douglas Gordon (Scottish, b. 1966) visualizes, pictures, and "sculpts" time in many of his works. In 1993, Gordon presented a version of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, projected onto a translucent screen and slowed down to a duration of twenty-four hours. Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho, which is included in this exhibition, marked the beginning of the artist's ongoing method of altering, monumentalizing, and alienating viewers' common understandings of the moving picture. Douglas Gordon: Timeline focuses on the film-related work of his oeuvre and his direct references to Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, and other cornerstones of film history. The exhibition ranges from a large-scale projection of an elephant in Play Dead (2003) and direct references to Andy Warhol's Sleep (1963) in Film Noir (Perspire) (1995) to the phenomenon of superimposed visuals in Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997).
Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition is supported in part by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
The accompanying publication is made possible by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition is supported in part by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
The accompanying publication is made possible by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Douglas Gordon. Play Dead; Real Time. 2003. Still from video installation with two screens, monitor, and color video, 21 min. loop and 11 min. loop, dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Richard J. Massey. Image courtesy of Douglas Gordon
