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Liliane Lijn (1939 - )

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1977

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Denmark
    City: Copenhagen
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Liliane Lijn was born in New York. In 1958 she moved to Paris and studied art history at the École du Louvre and archaeology at the Sorbonne. In the early 1960s, she made sculptures and installations that were inspired by a range of sources, from Ancient Greek mythology, space travel to emerging manufactured materials such as Plexiglas and Perspex. During the mid 1960s, Lijn lived near Athens and became interested in Tibetan Buddhism. In 1966 she moved to London where she still lives and works. Her many public commissions include White Koan (1972) at the University of Warwick and Cool Light (2003) at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and abroad, including a mid-career retrospective at the Mead Gallery, Warwick in 2005. She collaborated with an astrophysicist on Solar Hills (2006–2007), a major landscape installation in California. In 2011 her solo exhibition Light Years was held at the Sir John Soane Museum and Riflemaker Gallery, London. In 2012 Caution Matter (with Jamie Allen), took place at Anglia Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge; and Cosmic Dramas at mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough.
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    Title
    Alpha
    Portfolio Title
    Biting Through
    Edition
    15/25
    Date
    1977
    Medium
    Etching
    Dimensions
    height: 35.00 cm, width: 35.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Editions Alecto, March 1979
    Inscription
    bl: 15/25 bc: [greek lc letter alpha] br: Liliane Lijn 1977
    GAC number
    14474