Alpha

Location

Country: Denmark
City: Copenhagen
Place: British Embassy

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.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

etching

Artist

Liliane Lijn (1939 - )

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