Martin Boyce, artist and art
Born 1967, Birth Hamilton, Scotland, UK.
Martin Boyce (born in Glasgow, 1967) works at the interstices of design, architecture and daily life, reinterpreting and disturbing the very substance of works by Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe, and Charles and Ray Eames in order to create “fragile landscapes.” This is his first complete monograph.
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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Concrete Autumn (Dead Leaves. No Ground)2006
Interview.
Sculptor Martin Boyce, the third Turner Prize winner in a row to emerge from Glasgow, says he tries to capture the beauty in unloved everyday places. The sculptural work of Martin Boyce refers both to a physical, urban landscape and to a visionary one that is yet to exist. He often borrows from Modernist design history, from archetypes of certain periods that evoke an idea of democratic utopia, from a collective memory of mass-produced design…
Typically, Boyce’s work relates to and transforms the space around it, creating atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design history, which it often directly quotes…
Works in the Tate collection
