{"title":"Douglas Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouglas Gordon (born 1966, Glasgow) is a Scottish artist working primarily with video, film, text and installation, whose practice centres on memory, identity, time and the psychology of spectatorship. His appropriation and radical deceleration of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in 24 Hour Psycho (1993) established him as a leading figure in 1990s British and international contemporary art. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998 and the Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"douglas-gordon-it-doesnt-matter-who-i-am-tramway-glasgow-1993","title":"DOUGLAS GORDON — It Doesn’t Matter Who I Am. I Just Want to Talk to You: The Sociable Art of Douglas Gordon, Generisch \/ Tramway, Glasgow, 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eGenerisch \/ Tramway, Glasgow, 1993. Softcover exhibition catalogue, 54 pages, 15 × 20 cm. Colour wrappers; black-and-white and colour reproductions throughout. Designed by Tony Arefin. With original 4-page 24 Hour Psycho: Hitchcock’s Tomb exhibition handout, text by Stuart Morgan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe useful thing about this copy is that 24 Hour Psycho is still inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1993, The Sociable Art of Douglas Gordon catches Gordon before the institutional biography had overtaken the work. The catalogue moves through text pieces, telephone interventions, sound and projects built around unstable identity and communication — including the unsolicited call to Liam Gillick from which the title is taken. Ross Sinclair contributed the catalogue text; Tony Arefin gave the publication its extraordinary turquoise cover and oversized typography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInserted alongside it is the original Tramway handout for 24 Hour Psycho, shown 24 April–23 May 1993, with Stuart Morgan’s essay Hitchcock’s Tomb. Gordon’s slowing of Hitchcock’s Psycho to a twenty-four-hour duration became the work that announced him internationally; three years later he won the 1996 Turner Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pairing is unusually exact. One publication describes a practice built around repetition, anonymity, memory and borrowed material. The other records the work in which those strategies suddenly became unavoidable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatalogue and handout remain separate objects. Their placement together does the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good. Visible handling, light edge and corner wear, creasing to lower front wrapper and minor surface marks. Handout with light age toning and handling consistent with use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Generisch \/ Tramway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54285861847378,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Gordon_Douglas.ItDoesn_TMatterWhoIAm.IJustWantToTalkToYouTheSociableArtOfDouglasGordon.1993.jpg?v=1786961686"},{"product_id":"douglas-gordon-24-hour-psycho-spellbound-hayward-gallery-bfi-london-1996","title":"DOUGLAS GORDON — 24 Hour Psycho, Spellbound: Art and Film, Hayward Gallery \/ BFI, London, 1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduced for \u003cem\u003eSpellbound: Art and Film\u003c\/em\u003e, Hayward Gallery, London, 22 February–6 May 1996, an ambitious collaboration with the British Film Institute marking the centenary of cinema. Curated by Ian Christie and Philip Dodd, the exhibition brought together Fiona Banner, Terry Gilliam, Douglas Gordon, Peter Greenaway, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego, Ridley Scott and Boyd Webb at a moment when the boundary between contemporary art and moving image was becoming increasingly unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto is given entirely to a blue installation photograph of Douglas Gordon’s \u003cem\u003e24 Hour Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) — Hitchcock’s \u003cem\u003ePsycho\u003c\/em\u003e slowed to approximately three frames per second until the original film takes a full twenty-four hours to unfold. Reduced here from monumental gallery projection to a postcard image, one of the defining video works of the 1990s becomes portable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe timing is particularly good. Gordon showed \u003cem\u003e24 Hour Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e at the Hayward in February 1996; later that same year he won the Turner Prize. Damien Hirst appears on the same card immediately following his 1995 Turner Prize win, while Steve McQueen — then still primarily encountered within contemporary art — would receive the prize in 1999. What now reads like an improbable roll call of established names was still a live configuration of careers in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm → appropriation → gallery installation → installation photograph → exhibition postcard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGordon takes Hitchcock out of normal cinematic time; Christie and Dodd place that altered cinema inside an exhibition concerned with the changing relationship between art and film; the Hayward then returns the installation to circulation as printed matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the reverse, the image becomes administration again: dates, institutions, logos, curatorially assembled names and an unused postal field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot quite catalogue. Not quite artwork. Not simply publicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed object circulating at the exact moment \u003cem\u003e24 Hour Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e was moving from an already acclaimed installation into the canon of contemporary art — while Gordon himself was moving toward the institutional recognition that would define 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe postcard survives that movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.5 × 15 cm · Offset-printed card on uncoated stock · Hayward Gallery \/ British Film Institute, London, 1996\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light age toning and minor spotting consistent with period ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hayward Gallery \/ British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54365411115346,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Gordon_Douglas.Banner_Fiona.Gilliam_Terryetal.Showinvite_spellbound_HaywardGallery.1996.jpg?v=1787532552"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/douglas-gordon.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}