2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, will be exhibiting his latest work at CAC Malaga from November 26th until January 23rd.
About Simon Starling:
Born in 1967 in Surrey, Simon Starling, an English conceptual artist, studied photography and art in England and Scotland and was the first recipient of the Blinky Palermo Grant in 1999.
Starling shows the idea of efficiency and DIY through much of his work, including Tabernas Desert Run in 2004 which features a bicycle fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen that he rode 66 kilometres across the Tabernas Desert in Spain. The only waste product was water, which he then used to paint a watercolour of a cactus that he had seen on his journey.
Tabernas Desert Run turned out to be one of his Turner Prize show exhibits, however, the piece that was given most media attention was titled Shedboatshed which consisted of a wooden shed that he had previously dismantled and converted into a boat. He sailed down the River Rhine is this boat and later turned it back into the original shed in Basel, Switzerland.
Charles Thomson, leader of the anti-conceptual art Stuckists, quoted in The Times: “The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.” Hilariously, another two newspapers took up this idea and bought a shed from B&Q, turning it into a boat!
Since 2005, Starling lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin and is a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
Simon Starling Exhibition Info:
For more information, please call the museum on: +34 952 120 055 or e-mail: cacmalaga@cacmalaga.org
The CAC Malaga opening hours are from 10am-2pm and 5pm-9pm – Tuesday to Sunday
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29001 Málaga
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