The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will host from January 25th, 2013 I am also... Douglas Gordon, a major exhibition of one of the leading artists of the contemporary art scene. The Scottish artist based in Berlin is an outstanding personality whose links with the Israeli cultural scene have strongly reinforced in recent years. The guest curator of the whole project is Ami Barak.

Douglas Gordon is a “film player”. He uses cinema and video as a medium and acts with them as a “sculptor”. He draws inspiration from cinema, literature, art as well as his own history and popular culture, wavering between personal and collective memory. Through a wide-range of media including video, photography, text-based works, objects and installations he explores themes such as life and death, good and evil, innocence and guilt, temptation and fear and thus proves a portrait of the artist’s obsessions.

Beyond the principle of retrospective, the exhibition intends to provide an overview of his work that spans the last 20 years. Among the art works presented, some have become iconic such 24 Psycho, 30 second text or Play dead, other are references that keep their undeniable appeal as Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, until more recent creations like Henry Rebel or The End of civilisation. The evolutionary display will take place both in the multi-purpose Gallery of the new wing, as well as in the historic building, as for k364, another portrait, which masterfully connects the present with the dark past, will be shown outside the walls of the museum. A defining feature of Gordon's approach is his ability to animate the architecture itself as with the now famous light fall of the museum, where more than a hundred text pieces will emphasize the artist’s enthrallment with language and multiple meanings.

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About the artist

Winner of the Turner Prize in 1996, Douglas Gordon first gained recognition in 1993 with his celebrated video installation 24 Hour Psycho.

Since his first solo show in 1986, he has exhibited extensively, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles (2001) ; Hayward Gallery, London (2002) ; the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006) ; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (2006) ; the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2007) ; the Tate Britain, London (2010) ; the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main (2011) and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2012).

Douglas Gordon is also represented by several art galleries, such as Gagosian (London–New York), Yvon Lambert (Paris), Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv), Niels Borch Jensen Gallery (Berlin), and Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich).