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Christopher Williams: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 18)
Thursday 16 May 2013
10AM for a 10.30AM start
 
David Zwirner is pleased to invite you to the press preview of Christopher Williams: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 18). Christopher Williams, David Zwirner, and London Director Angela Choon will do a short walkthrough and will be available for interview and photo opportunities.
 
RSVP essential to
 
Coffee and pastries will be served from 10AM.



 
In the 1970s, Christopher Williams (born 1956 in Los Angeles) studied at the California Institute of the Arts under the first wave of West Coast conceptual artists, including John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler, only to become one of his generation’s leading conceptualists. Williams’s work is a critical investigation of the medium of photography and more broadly the vicissitudes of industrial culture, in particular its structures of representation and classification. Using the process of reproduction as a point of entry, the artist manipulates the conventions of advertising, the superficiality of surface, and ultimately the history of Modernism. Deeply political, historical, and sometimes personal, the photographs are meant to evoke a subtle shift in our perception by questioning the communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our understanding of reality.
 
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, most recently at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (both 2011); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; and the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (both 2010). Other notable solo exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Zürich (2007); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2006); Secession, Vienna; and the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (both 2005).
 
Williams will be part of the Venice Biennale, opening in June 2013, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. In 2014, the artist will be the subject of a major show opening at The Art Institute of Chicago, which will travel to The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
 
Major museum collections which hold works by the artist include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; amongst others.
 
He lives and works in Amsterdam, Cologne, and Los Angeles.
 
Exhibition Dates: 17 May – 15 June 2013 
Location: 24 Grafton Street, London, W1S 4EZ
Website: www.davidzwirner.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 538 3165
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm. Monday by appointment only.

For press information and images please contact:
Sophie da Gama Campos or Chloe Kinsman at Pelham Communications
Tel: +44 (0)208 969 3959
 





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