Index to artist biography of martin boyce
Writing an artist biography.
Index to artist biography of martin boyce
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Martin Boyce was born in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he continues to live and work. Primarily using sculpture, Boyce engages with the historical legacy of Modernist forms and ideals, assembling paired-down visual elements in order to conjure up the sight of larger environments.
His work is endowed with a romantic and melancholic vision of nature, which extends to the city’s built environment. His installations often stage the outside within the gallery space, evoking an entire landscape through a few carefully chosen details, supported by the artist’s singular attention to materials, which include neon lights, wire fencing and ventilation grills.
His pieces also reference key element from the Modernist era, such as iconic furniture design and the grid, originally meant to evacuate narrative in favor of utopian and democratic structures. Boyce stages these cultural forms in a literal fashion within his works as a mean