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Liliane LijnLiliane Lijn was born in New York in 1939, educated in Europe and has lived in London since 1966. She is a leading pioneer and exponent of kinetic art who in her work has experimented with light, movement, words, film, liquids and industrial materials. Lijn has exhibited internationally and had a major retrospective exhibition in 2005 at the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre. In 2006, Lijn had a solo show at England & Co: Liliane Lijn: Selected Works 1959-1980 and was featured in the gallery's 2010 group exhibition Beneath the Radar in 1970s London and in Wandering Lines ii in 2012. An England & Co publication to accompany Lijn's exhibition was designed in homage to the newsbulletins produced by Signals gallery in London in the 1960s, and copies are available for sale from the gallery.
Lijn was recently short-listed for her design for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
BIOGRAPHY
Drawings & works on paper Prints
Height 12 inches, base diameter 4.75 inches, top diameter 0.4 inches
Translucent resins
Published in an edition of 30 by the Multiple Store.
30 x 19 (diameter) inches on a motorised turntable
Fibreglass and Perspex cone
Photographed at England & Co 2006.
Private collection
Overall 131 x 34.5 x 16 inches
15 aluminium tubes wound with .006-inch copper wire, rotating
at 3 rpm; supporting structure steel and reject 'waveguide' parts
Installation at England & Co 2006.
24.5 inches x 16 diameter on a motorised turntable
Front cone shown in detail: Fibreglass and Perspex (1972)
Exhibited England & Co 2006.
41-inch diameter Perspex drum containing water and liquid paraffin;
15-inch diameter motorised turntable; 4.5-inch and 4-inch diameter acrylic balls; 16-inch high, 12v 35w spotlight
Installation at England & Co 2006.
18-inch diameter Perspex drum containing water and liquid paraffin with acrylic balls on a motorised turntable and 12v 35w spotlight
Installation at London Art Fair 2008. Private collection.
Letraset on Perspex cone 15 inches high x 10 inches diameter
Poem collaboration: Liliane Lijn and Nazli Nour
Exhibited England & Co 2006.
From left: Protons Are Positive (1968), Act As Atom (1966), E=mc2 (1968) and ABC Cone (1965)
Installation at England & Co 2006.
6.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 inches
Collage postcards of Eglise de la Madeleine and La Bourse
on Bakelite cylinder, and discs, brass rods, 30rpm motor
Exhibited England & Co 2006.
Letraset on painted wood cylinder, roller-bearings, wood shaft, wood base. 10 x 3 inches diameter without base; 11 x 9 x 6.5 inches with base (made in 1993). Nine words selected by the artist from a nine-page poem by George Andrews
Exhibited England & Co 2006.
Private collection.
16 x 19.5 x 11 inches
Letraset on painted metal drum, painted wood case, motor
Exhibited England & Co 2006.
Polymer lenses on painted Perspex block 15.75 x 23.5 x 2.75 inches
Projector with motorised turning lens in metal box, wood base
9 x 5.5 x 6.5 inches
Installation at England & Co 2006.