"I want the whole world to be in it" Martin Creed, 2011
Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed has transformed the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch, in the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants at the venue. The project seeks to blur the boundaries between art, food, design and functionality. Martin Creed at Sketch launches today, 1 March 2012, coinciding with Sketch’s 10th anniversary and a pivotal year for London as a cultural centre.
Through a series of new works both functional and decorative, Creed has created an environment that is at once as an exhibition, an artwork, a restaurant and an Events space. Exemplary of the logical and welcoming systems that recur throughout his work, the floor, walls and furniture take the form of new artworks inspired by the boundaries of art and functionality.
Work No. 1347 consists of 96 different types of marble, in a formation of zigzagging lines across the floor, along with a series of paintings and large-scale wall paintings. Work No. 1343 is a new work specially made for the restaurant in which every single piece of cutlery, glass, chair and table is different. This work brings together a mix of the mass produced and handcrafted, from classic antiques to contemporary design from all around the world.
Sketch’s co-founder and three Michelin starred chef Pierre Gagnaire has designed a new menu in unison with the artist’s concerns, allowing freedom to experiment and create dishes directly influenced by Creed’s artwork. The series of artist restaurants at Sketch will look to establish a forum for artists’ imaginings and innovations in art, design and social space, creating playful propositions for interaction with art in the public realm.
Sketch was inaugurated in 2002 by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz and masterchef Pierre Gagnaire. Mazouz’s commitment to art and design led to the establishment of Sketch Gallery Foundation as a non-profit arts organisation and Sketch has hosted over fifty major exhibitions of moving image over the last decade including work by Carsten Nicolai, John Baldessari, Jonas Mekas and Sylvie Fleury, as well as numerous off-site projects such as the CINACT series at The Gate Cinema in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery. Since 2006 the exhibitions programme has been curated by Victoria Brooks.
With this new initiative sketch continues to contribute to 9 Conduit Street’s rich heritage as a destination for experimentation in design, art and architecture having previously housed the headquarters of RIBA and the Atelier of Christian Dior.
Martin Creed is one of the foremost contemporary artists in the UK today. Based in London, the former Turner Prize winner is internationally acclaimed for working across a multitude of disciplines including installation, sculpture, music, dance and film. Popularly known in the UK for his Turner prize winning presentation of Work No. 227, The lights going on and off, he has had numerous solo museum and institutional exhibitions as well as work commissioned for the public realm including Work No. 1197, All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes, which will mark the start of the 2012 Olympic season. Creed has had numerous UK and international solo exhibitions including recent shows at Venice Biennale, Venice; Tate Britain, London; Hauser & Wirth, London/Zurich; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Royal Festival Hall, London; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg; The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; IKON Gallery, Birmingham and MARCO Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo.
Some of Martin Creed's Previous Work:
Some of Martin Creed's Previous Work:
Mourad Mazouz: London based restaurateur Mourad Mazouz established his first celebrated restaurants in Paris with Au Bascou, and later 404. Mazouz went on to open Momo in London in 1997, winning ‘Bar of the Year’ in the Evening Standard for its clever mix of world music, chic staff and experimental interiors and went on to open Sketch in 2002. In 2006 Mazouz opened Almaz by Momo in Dubai, a superb amalgamation of modernist North African design and food and went on to collaborate with the Prada Foundation in 2008 to open the Double Club, a Congolese ‘pop-up’ restaurant and bar, designed by critically acclaimed artist Carsten Holler. Another Paris opening soon followed with the opening of Derriere. With a talent to combine the most unusual in the most unexpected way and a focus on experimentation in food, the arts and social space, Mazouz also founded the record label Mo¹Zik and published The Momo Cook Bookbook.
Pierre Gagnaire: Born into a family of restaurateurs, Pierre Gagnaire’s forty-year rise to culinary superstardom began with his first restaurant in 1980 in St Etienne. Twice awarded the coveted 3rd Michelin star accolade, his influence continues to receive recognition worldwide for his restaurants in Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai. The name ‘Pierre Gagnaire’ has become synonymous with adventurous and iconoclastic cooking, with his unique culinary rhythm and technical mastery. Recent arts projects include 'Bande Originale', a collaborative cookbook for music and food made with Chilly Gonzalez.
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