Exhibitions
Barry Le Va, In a State of Flux
This book accompanies the exhibition Barry Le Va, In a State of Flux, at Fruitmarket from 16.11.24–02.02.25.
The three-volume publication places particular emphasis on the artist’s own words in the form of his Notes (statements) and various interviews published for the first time or republished. Le Va has been influential on generations of artists and this major publication will trace his career, while allowing his voice to be heard again.
Associated with process art and postminimalism, Barry Le Va developed a challenging, inspirational sculptural practice over a fifty-year career. He was catapulted to fame as a completely unknown young artist by a cover story in the magazine Artforum in 1968. The photograph was a detail of one of his ‘distribution’ or ‘scatter’ pieces: felt fragments and shapes dispersed seemingly at random across the floor. In 1971, he made an installation for London-based gallerist Nigel Greenwood, laying neat lines of flour across the floor of a vast warehouse, then blowing it into evocative drifts of white with an air compressor to make, in his words, a ‘continuous expansion extended scale’.
The floor was Le Va’s primary field of exploration and operation, and this exhibition brings together some of his most important floor works made with glass, felt, chalk, wood and tape. He was interested in the potential of materials in their raw state, making works that hint at then unleash their latent energy.
Barry Le Va: In a State of Flux is a production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The exhibition will travel to Museum Kurhaus Kleve.
Editor/Authors: Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Fiona Bradley, Susanne Figner, Christiane Meyer-Stoll
Softcover, 26 x 21 cm
VOLUME 1
Essays and Works, 1 28 pages
VOLUME 2
Exhibition History, Bibliography, and Artist's Notes, 272 pages
VOLUME 3
Interviews, 120 pages
ISBN: 9783991531258






Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey
Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey celebrates Fruitmarket's 50th year. Carried out in the Outer Hebrides, where Smith has made her home, this 'ritual journey' - Smith's term for her works that consist of a series of actions spread over time and multiple locations - presents personal characterisations of the star signs, at times interwoven with references to the festivals of the Celtic year. This publication presents Smith’s diary of the year, from Virgo 2023 to Leo 2024, alongside commissioned documentary photographs from Mhairi Law. An introduction from curator Iain Morrison, and a list of Smith’s ritual journeys from 1982 to the present, put on record the life and practice that this pioneering performance artist has been undertaking, away from the gaze of the mainstream artworld, since the early 1980s.
This book will be launched in December 2024 and posted to you then.
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Artists' Editions
Andrew Miller – Stack II
Andrew Miller – Stack II – 2021
Perspex
Light comes fully assembled with 3m flex and bulb. Electrician recommended for fitting.
Edition of 11
33 x 40 x 38 cm (approx., excluding flex)
Signed and numbered by the artist.
£1200
Andrew Miller (b.1969, Dartington) is a Glasgow based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and installations. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making he seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity of the relationship between form and function. Miller often salvages, reassembles and re-presents familiar objects, playing with our expectations of form and function, and asks questions about the way objects are placed, valued and used.
Stack II is a sculpture/form/light which allows the user the freedom and flexibility to arrange and rearrange the perspex components into a work of varying forms and colour. Constructed from irregular hexagonal shapes repeated in six different sizes and three different colours, the light is bought assembled but can be endlessly rearranged.
All editions are sent by tracked courier in the UK and internationally. Following purchase, the bookshop will arrange a suitable delivery date. If you have any questions, contact us via bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk or on +44 (0) 131 226 8181.
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