Lisson Gallery: 52 - 54 Bell Street

Events at Lisson Gallery: 52 - 54 Bell Street

• Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed at Lisson Gallery: 52 - 54 Bell Street

  Art

  1 Feb 2012 to 3 Mar 2012

  Lisson Gallery presents a major retrospective of video work and new work by controversial artist Santiago Sierra. The exhibition includes a timetabled cycle of performance based films shown alongside documents, photographs and a curated selection of Sierra's shorter and less linear video works. New works include the recently completed No Global Tour - a film documenting the manufacture and transportation through various world cities of a monumental sculpture in the form of the word 'No'. Conceived to be understood in as many contexts as possible; and unchanging in form and immediate meaning, the 'No' gradually assumes a complex semantic load during a journey full of eventualities, accidents and unexpected events. A monumental 'No' sculpture situated in the sculpture yard accompanies the film’s pared down minimalism presenting a powerful portrait of a humanity that is able to assert itself everywhere and at all times by forcefully saying: 'No'. Death Counter, a piece comprised of an LED display counting annual number of human deaths worldwide since the beginning of the year will be mounted outside the gallery.

• Spencer Finch at Lisson Gallery: 52 - 54 Bell Street

  Art

  21 Mar 2012 to 28 Apr 2012

  Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by artist Spencer Finch. At the core of Spencer Finch's practice is his on-going investigation into the nature of light, colour, memory and perception. Working in a range of media which includes painting, drawing, photography and installation, Finch uses scientific methods to examine the mechanics and mystery of perception, documenting events he has either directly observed or that hold particular historical resonance. Colorimeters are used to measure exactly the light that exists naturally in a specific time and place. These measurements are used to recreate the scene using materials such as fluorescent light and coloured filters to distil Finch’s observations into glowing worlds of abstract colour.