Two chances to see Liliane Lijn's work in London

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Cassone readers intrigued by Liliane Lijn's art - see our interview with her this month - will not want to miss two chances to see her work over the next month. If you can be in London any time up to 26 July, here are the places to go

‘SIGNALS Gallery (1964–1966)’

England & Co.
27 June to 26 July 2014

England & Co are holding a small survey exhibition devoted to Signals – a key London outpost for many of the Latin American artists of the 1960s avant-garde. The exhibition opens to coincide with the forthcoming exhibition starting in July at the Royal Academy in The Sackler Wing Galleries: Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.

Signals – which grew directly out of ‘The Centre for Advanced Creative Study’ set up in London in 1964 – was ‘dedicated to the adventures of the modern spirit’. With its exhibitions and events, the opening of a gallery in London’s West End, together with the publication of the influential Signals Newsbulletin, Signals became a centre for experimental international artists, with links formed between the avant-gardes of Latin America, Europe and London.

England & Co.
90-92 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7NT

‘On Beauty’

Large Glass, London
27 June to 26 September 2014

In ‘On Beauty’ Lijn will show her early Sky Scrolls gouache alongside the Stone Koans of 1997. The exhibition also includes work from artists Tonico Lemos Auad, Hannah Collins, Michel François, Luigi Ghirri, Asta Gröting, Susan Hiller, Craigie Horsfield, Sidney Nolan, Tristano di Robilant, Bernhard Schobinger, Trevor Shearer, Santo Tolone, Francis Upritchard, Dan Wolgers. A text piece has also been written for the show by Colm Tóibín.

Large Glass
392 Caledonian Road
London  N1 1DN

Frieze magazine’s artists projects

Lijn has been especially commissioned by Frieze to create the artist’s project, entitled Image to Word, for the current edition, No.164. Using the ‘Manuel d’Épigraphie Akkadienne (Manual of Akkadian Epigraphs), 1948, by René Labat and Florence Malbran-Labat, Lijn traces: 

the origins of writing, from Sumerian pictograms to Cuneiform script to my own translation from French into English. Using my photographs of major Greek industrial sites, I relate the development from image to word to the parallel evolution of myths to industry.

Lijn has also written for the regular ‘My Influences’ feature, where she discusses how her early years, family decisions and chance meetings have influenced her development as an artist.