Liz Magor
Paper, cardboard, textiles
39.5 x 24 x 54 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
paper, cardboard, textiles
62.2 x 24.8 x 43.8 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
polymerized gypsum, cardboard
36 x 38 x 38 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
silicone rubber, plastic cup
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Marcelle Alix
polymerized gypsum, silicone rubber, wood
114 x 107 x 74 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
polymerized gypsum, silicone rubber, wood
130 x 61 x 95 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Fresh from Failure', 2023. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
32 pairs of used shoes, each in a shoe box
638 x 102 x 56 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Xhilaration', 2019. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
silicon rubber and wool
50 x 70 x 15 cm
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Exhibition view 'Xhilaration', 2019. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
silicon rubber, wool
51 x 51 x 9 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Xhilaration', 2019. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
silicon rubber, wool
52 x 52 x 13 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Xhilaration', 2019. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
mylar boxes, mixed materials
185 x 169 x 79 cm
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Exhibition view 'Xhilaration', 2019. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Polymerized gypsum, silicon, polyester foil, paper
30 x 37 x 7 cm
unique
polymerized gypsum, wool, wood, plastic bag
48 x 25 x 14,5 cm
unique
photo: André Morin/ exhibition view, Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine (F), 2016
polymerized gypsum, fabric
29 x 28 x 13 cm
unique
photo: André Morin/ exhibition view, Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine (F), 2016
Wool, polyester foil
56 x 146 x 20 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Je t'épaule tu me respires', 2018. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Wool, polyester foil
53 x 170 x 22 cm
unique
photo : Aurélien Mole
silicon rubber, plastic bag
39 x 27 x 14 cm
unique
photo : Aurélien Mole
polymerized gypsum, metal tray, cigarette
36 x 36 x 5 cm
ed 3
photo : Aurélien Mole
textiles, polymerized gypsum, plastic
66 x 32 x 27 cm
unique
mylar boxes, mixed materials
51 x 51 x 42 cm
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
mylar boxes, mixed materials
51 x 51 x 42 cm
unique
photo: Lucas Charrier
polymerized gypsum, cigarette
25 x 12 x 8 cm
ed 5 + 1
photo : Aurélien Mole
polymerized gypsum
250 x 109 x 18 cm
unique
view of the exhibition 'You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016
as originally commissioned by Glasgow Sculpture Studios
polymerized gypsum, wool, hair, plastic, metal
208 x 110 x 13 cm
unique
view of the exhibition 'You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016
as originally commissioned by Glasgow Scultpure Studios
polymerized gypsum, plastic sheet, fabric, paper, leather
178 x 106 x 10 cm
unique
view of the exhibition 'You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016
as originally commissioned by Glasgow Scultpure Studios
polymerized gypsum, sheet plastic, fabric, paper
140 x 138 x 20 cm
unique
view of the exhibition 'You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016
as originally commissioned by Glasgow Scultpure Studios
polymerized gypsum
38 x 22 x 25 cm
unique
view of the exhibition 'You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016
as originally commissioned by Glasgow Scultpure Studios
polymerised gypsum, plastic, paper
33 x 30 x 21 cm
unique
photo: Marcelle Alix, Paris
exhibition view FIAC 2015
exhibition view FIAC 2015
exhibition view, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2016
polymerised gypsum, plastic, fabric, fur
50 x 40 x 28 cm
unique
photo: Marcelle Alix, Paris
collection privée
polymerized gypsum, plastic, stuffed bird
23 x 30 x 12 cm
unique
photo: Marcelle Alix, Paris
collection privée, Paris
polymerized gypsum, porcelain, cotton
31 x 37 x 13 cm
unique
polymerized gypsum, fabric
34 x 75 x 22 cm
unique
photo: Marcelle Alix, Paris
collection privée
silicone, paper, fabric
24,5 x 33 x 42 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'L'Intruse', 2014. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
silicone, paper, fabric
21,5 x 37 x 62 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'L'Intruse', 2014. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
platinum-cure silicone rubber
103 x 61 x 1 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'L'Intruse', 2014. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
collection privée, Paris
wool, cotton thread, mica flakes
146,05 x 55,88 x 12,7 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'Intruse', 2014. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
collection Lafayette Anticipation - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris
wool, fabric, thread, dye, plastic, metal and wood
133,35 x 53,98 x 7,62 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'L'Intruse', 2014. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
wool, fabric, metal, paper, and plastic
136 x 100 x 6 cm
unique
photo: André Morin/ exhibition view, Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine (F), 2016
polymerized gypsum, ceramic, bronze, acrylic
12 x 71 x 153 cm
unique
black/white photograph, wood, bitumen, varnish
73,5 x 63,5 cm
unique
polymerized gypsum, textile, plastic bag, nylon stockings
18 x 27 x 12 cm / 5 x 30 x 8 cm / 20 x 14 x 2 cm
unique
polymerized gypsum, textile, plastic bag, glass bottles
72 x 42 x 18 cm
unique
black/white photograph, wood, bitumen, varnish
61 x 48 cm
unique
polymerized gypsum, chocolate
9 x 21 x 25 cm
ed 2
silver print
51 x 40,5 cm
66 x 66 x 3,5 cm
ed 3
silver print, framed
51 x 40,5 cm
66 x 66 x 3,5 cm
ed 3
silver print, framed
51 x 40,5 cm
66 x 66 x 3,5 cm
ed 3
polymerized gypsum, cigarettes, wood
61 x 121 x 63,5 cm
unique
photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
courtesy Susan Hobbs, Toronto and Marcelle Alix, Paris
polymerized gypsum, cigarettes, wood
57 x 121 x 63.5 cm
unique
photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
courtesy Susan Hobbs, Toronto and Marcelle Alix, Paris
collection FRAC Corse, Corte (FR)
"I started making things as a child simply as a way to make up for the deficiency of what was offered. I found most things around me to be practical, unbeautiful and meaningless. I needed things to be emotionally charged and personal, almost equivalent to me in terms of subjectivity (...) From one point of view, making art is a way of testing the positions one might take relative to the world, and the people and things found in the world. The materials, the images, the operations, the forms of address, they all come from an inventory of possibilities and I'm conscious of my choices. By now I have an enhanced ability to make things, but a diminished need for those things to speak symbolically or profoundly. Now I'm spending hours making the things I used to find unbeautiful and meaningless--a pile of towels, a stack of trays, a discarded jacket, a cardboard box--and setting them up in relationship to found things. My interest is how the studio part affects the found part. Through some mysterious operation the found things become really alive when set against the sculptural representation of something ordinary."
[Source: "A conversion with Liz Magor", Liz Magor, monographic publication, ed. MAC Montréal, Migros Museum & Kunstverein im Hamburg, 2016]
Liz Magor was born in 1948. She lives in Vancouver (Canada). An important artist of the Canadian scene, she participated to a number of group shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Art Gallery in Ottawa, Seattle Art Museum, Wattis Institute, to Documenta 8 and to the Venice Biennale. Triangle Marseille reintroduced her work to Europe in 2013 (cur. Céline Kopp) and it was subsequently shown at Crédac-contemporary art center in Ivry-sur-Seine (cur. Claire Le Restif). In 2017, her retrospective which was initiated by Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montreal toured at Migros Museum Zurich, Kunstverein in Hamburg and MAMAC in Nice. She was a resident at DAAD in Berlin in 2017-2018. Her solo show, BLOWOUT, was presented at The Renaissance Society, Chicago and at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridgein 2019.