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ZOBOP
Jim Lambie
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Scottish Art
Jim Lambie
ZOBOP1999'ZOBOP' is Lambie's signature work. It is different every time it is installed, as it varies according to the shape of the room. Strips of coloured vinyl tape are stuck down on the floor, beginning at the perimeter of the room and continued until the tape reaches the centre. Thinking about the kind of art which was being made in the late 1990s, Lambie realised that colour seemed to be either over-controlled, or drained away. He therefore decided to make something super-coloured, psychedelic even, but which still retained a strong conceptual base. The work is based on the concept of trying to fill a space while still leaving it empty.
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Installation art
An art practice developed in the second half of the 20th century that broke away from the view of a sculpture as a singular object to be looked at. Instead, installation artists create an environment that may surround the viewer. Many are temporary or created for a particular location.
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- Accession no. GMA 4420
- Medium Vinyl tapes
- Size Variable dimensions
- Credit Purchased 2001
Jim Lambie (Scottish, born 1964)
Lambie was born in Glasgow. When he left school he became involved with the local music scene, before studying Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art. After graduation he was amongst a group of students, including David Shrigley, Douglas Gordon and Roderick Buchanan, who arranged exhibitions of their work in non-traditional spaces from empty garages to their own bedrooms. Lambie’s work is loaded with references, sometimes metaphorical or ironic, to popular culture, art history and music. He lives in New York and Glasgow and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005.
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Environmental art
The creation of environments - installations that surround the viewer and with which the viewer interacts - that emerged in the 1960s with artists such as Allan Kaprow. It is also loosely applied to any art practice addressing environmental concerns and to Land Art.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing stands for another. By extension, it is any representation that symbolically refers to something else.