![EVERYTHING IS BECOMING NINETEENNINETYFOUR AN EXHIBITION THAT SHOWS THAT THINGS HAVE BECOME MORE SPECIFIC AND SEPARATE.](http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/media/w540h540/collection/P8032.jpg)
© the artist, courtesy Maureen Paley, London
EVERYTHING IS BECOMING NINETEENNINETYFOUR AN EXHIBITION THAT SHOWS THAT THINGS HAVE BECOME MORE SPECIFIC AND SEPARATE. 2006
Liam Gillick (1964 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 84 X 59.2 CM
- Media
- INK JET
- Accession number
- P8032
Summary
Liam Gillick produced a series of prints for the Hayward Gallery exhibition How to Improve the World. Combining his own longstanding interest in models of utopia with the ideals embodied in the Arts Council Collection, the project provides a wry commentary on the history of Arts Council exhibitions. Four works have been selected from the series of 20 and produced in a signed limited edition of 50.
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.