Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick, 2014
HD video, screen, mirrored room
Film duration: 27:43 minutes

Produced to coincide with the first major posthumous exhibition of Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern and the ICA in London, Gillick's film is both an homage to the older artist as well as a personal exploration of how artistic practice is constituted through discourse. Adjacent to the main space a mirrored ante-room had been created to serve as screening space for the film.  

Standard Reference Platform, 2014 (detail, ceiling)
Raw aluminium, clear Plexiglas, vinyl letters

The sculptural works integrate the artist’s ongoing use of text and abstraction – towards an analysis of the semiotics of the built world – into single works. The use of raw aluminum and clear Plexiglas allows form to move to the front while the text elements provide a self-conscious commentary upon the contingency of meaning in context.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti