MALCOLM LE GRICE – NO IDEA
2015-05-18Forty years ago Malcolm Le Grice’s seminal film exhibition opened at the legendary Arts Lab Drury Lane and then at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. For the young filmmaker this marked a turning point in his career: forty years on a presentation encompassing the last fifty years of his work at Richard Saltoun Gallery marks another – the first solo exhibition of his work in a commercial gallery. Including new and newly worked films and installations, Le Grice has titled the exhibition ‘No Idea’, intentionally refusing to create an exhibition ‘concept’.
Le Grice’s early multi-screen and multi-media works took as a nexus the moving image: combining film with performance and installations that comprise both found and made objects. Moving away from the 2-dimensional screen and picture plane he destroyed the limits of the gallery space, forcing his audience to reconsider their own physical relation to the screen and thereby the viewing experience. This new method of inquiry was revolutionary and the term “expanded cinema” was quickly adopted in reference to it.
Opposite – Berlin Horse, 1970
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2015
Richard Saltoun Gallery
111 Great Titchfield Street
London
W1W 6RY
