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Date: 2016

Location: Bath, UK

Project: Performance

Partners: Bath Festivals, Bath and North Eastern Somerset Council (BANES), Telephone Records

Artist: Martin Creed

We are delighted to present the award-winning artist, Martin Creed, who will perform with his band for an open air public performance in Bath beside the River Avon. One of Great Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, and a 2001 Turner Prize winner, Creed works in a wide array of media including sculpture, painting, installation, choreography, and music. Making use of existing materials and situations, the artist creates works that question the definition of art with a playful approach to conceptual minimalism. Creed’s expressive methods, through which he gives the viewer pause, are simple, yet graceful. The freedom of interpretation and the interconnection of people sustain his work.

Martin Creed and his band’s performance forms part of the re-positioned programming for a city-wide night of free music and prefaces the opening of his latest solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth following a residency in Somerset. Creed’s visual art practice has often embraced sonic elements, such as the 1998 installation Work No. 189: thirty-nine metronomes beating time, one at every speed. Music, he believes, is a medium that offers something that art alone does not.

“I got into the music because the visual work wasn’t enough… you hear things as well as see them… I like that you can make music in your head and carry it around with you. You’re freer. You’re not tied down by the burden of physical objects.”

Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Tate Britain, London (2013); The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2013); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2012); MAMAC, France (2011); and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010). He was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2001 for Work No. 227: The Lights Going On And Off. An accomplished musician, he has released several albums including Mind Trap (2014), Chicago (2012) and Love to You (2012). Creed’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. 

Creed is represented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Hauser & Wirth