Mark LeckeyPearl Vision
Mark Leckeyuntitled
Three Letter Threnody, 2016
Tags:Mark Leckey / Liverpool Biennial / Turner Prize / Text / Print
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey has an ongoing fascination with the affective power of images, music and technology, and often uses reconfigured archival footage in his work. He has produced an edition echoing his work for the Biennial, Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD, which mines archival footage and objects found online, including television shows, advertisements and music, to create a record of all the significant events of his life, from his birth until 1999. Three Letter Threnody, is an alphabetical index of logos representing companies and organisations from that era that no longer exist.
Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial
About Mark Leckey
Since the late 1990s, when he first presented the seminal work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Mark Leckey's dynamic and varied output has made a significant impact and continues to be an important influence on the work of a new generation of artists in the UK and internationally. Through his videos, installations and live performances, Leckey explores the relationship of cultural ...
Since the late 1990s, when he first presented the seminal work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Mark Leckey's dynamic and varied output has made a significant impact and continues to be an important influence on the work of a new generation of artists in the UK and internationally. Through his videos, installations and live performances, Leckey explores the relationship of cultural artefacts to human subjectivity and the production of desire. He re-animates the things around us—objects, images, characters and brands—to examine the iconography of popular culture and its affective pull.
Leckey's exhibition history since the early 2000s includes solo exhibitions at many major international galleries and museums including WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany, and Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. Leckey was awarded the Turner prize in 2008.
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Three Letter Threnody
Digital print on Somerset Paper
This work is signed and numbered by the artist.
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Untitled (Maria Bartuszova, Untitled, 1985/Burial mask, Mmo society. Onitsha province. British Nigeria), 2009
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The Farm, 2000
Ultra Violette, 2009