Jim Lambie
Zobop Gold, 2000
Zobop Gold, 2000
Photo: Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, 2008. Jen Fong Photography
Collection
Gold, silver, black and white vinyl tape
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Most renown for his psychedelic floor installations, Jim Lambie's boogie-inducing stripes are modish cover versions of Gene Davis and Sol LeWitt, cleverly remixed to suburban beats. His Zobop Gold, a sprawling hallucinatory field, pays homage to expanded painting in the tones of every record sleeve favoured on the play lists of smoky working men's clubs. The effect is overwhelming, magnetic and dizzying, defying sober perspective, humorously envisioning pub karaoke night as the last frontier of Buren's aesthetic intervention. – Patricia Ellis
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Most renown for his psychedelic floor installations, Jim Lambie's boogie-inducing stripes are modish cover versions of Gene Davis and Sol LeWitt, cleverly remixed to suburban beats. His Zobop Gold, a sprawling hallucinatory field, pays homage to expanded painting in the tones of every record sleeve favoured on the play lists of smoky working men's clubs. The effect is overwhelming, magnetic and dizzying, defying sober perspective, humorously envisioning pub karaoke night as the last frontier of Buren's aesthetic intervention. – Patricia Ellis
Jim Lambie (born 1964 in Glagow, Scotland) a contemporary visual artist and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster. Jim Lambie graduated from the Glasgow School of Art (1990-1994) with a 2:1 Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. He lives and works in Glasgow, and also operates as a musician and DJ.
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