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Martin Creed - Down Over Up
Martin Creed Down Over Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery 2010 (installation view) (c) The Fruitmarket Gallery and Martin Creed
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
30 September 2010, 6-7.30pm
This month, we will be discussing Martin Creed’s major exhibition of new work, Down Over Up -. One of Britain’s most highly-regarded and popular artists, he is known for installations such as his 2001 Turner Prize work, _No. 227, The Lights Going On and Off and in 2008, No. 850, in which volunteer runners sprinted across the Tate Britain gallery every 30 seconds.
Renowned for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text, each of which has found its inspiration in the objects and activities of everyday life. Always in search of the essential nature of things, Creed uses the simplest materials to create a world in which reality appears transformed by conceptual rules, as well as by the unexpected breaking of those rules.
‘I want to make things. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s got something to do with other people. I think I want to try to communicate with other people, because I want to say “hello”, because I want to express myself, and because I want to be loved’.