Simon Starling
'Autoxylopyrocycloboros' listen to audio recording
Autoxylopyrocycloboros is a new project, commissioned by Cove
Park, by the internationally acclaimed visual artist Simon
Starling. Autoxylopyrocycloboros locates itself firmly within the
history and geography of the Clyde estuary. Rooted in the
pioneering development of steamboat technology on the Clyde and in
the brooding presence of the nuclear submarines based at
neighbouring Coulport and Faslane, Autoxylopyrocycloboros will take
the form of a circular, entropic voyage on the waters of Loch
Long.
Simon Starling graduated from The Glasgow School of Art MFA in
1992. He has exhibited extensively, including at Moderna Museet in
Stockholm (1998), Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000),
Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt am Main (2002), the Venice Biennale (as
part of Zenomap 2003), and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2003). In
2005 he won the Turner Prize. He lives and works in Glasgow and
Berlin.
Starling's work is characterised by an engagement with the meaning
and value of objects and the processes involved in transforming one
object or substance into another. His work points to connections
between the history of Modernism and contemporary globalization. He
gives equal consideration to the appreciation of the design of
objects - from chairs and bicycles to planes and boats - as he does
to the social, economic and cultural conditions in which they are
produced.
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