Estate of LG Williams Anthology 1987 - 2012: LG Williams Midcareer Retrospective At Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan

By Lg Williams

"A man, his determined features suggesting a taciturn cartoon hero, glances into an adjoining room through an opening cut into what is presumably a door. So as to be able to do so he somewhat awkwardly holds open a shutter with the index finger of his right . awkwardly, because this shutter, swivelling around a pin at the apex of the opening, is on the other side, that is, on the viewer's side of the door. Moving it must have required some pushing and poking, and the raised finger now intersects the character's field of vision. In a speech bubble we read words that also form the tide of the piece: I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ROOM ...AND THERE'S NO ART IN IT "

The real and fictional works of American artist LG Williams/The Estate of LG Williams(TM) defy categorization, and satirizes the very art world the artist inhabits. He trademarked his name, and the name of his "estate," before he is even a brand - or dead. Williams likes to poke fun at artists, collectors, dealers, galleries, curators, and museums, or anyone or anything that profits from the art business, and put them to the test to see what happens. The only risk is the artist himself relies on the same superstructure to get his message out, and this inherent paradox makes his anti-art art intriguing. Through clever installations and tongue-in-cheek sloganing, Williams questions the authenticity of contemporary art with a Houellebecqian viewpoint: that in a capitalistic system there are inevitably winners and losers - but Williams does it with more charm than the novelist.

LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams(TM) Anthology
Gloria Maria Gallery, Via Watt 32, 20143 Milan
11/14 -12/21 2012
(in collaboration with Super Window Project)

Thomas Frangenberg (b. Germany 1957- d. London, UK 2018), received his PhD from the University of Cologne and was a distinguished historian of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, and a lecturer in art history at the University of Leicester between 1990 and 2017 -- as well as a well-known collector of contemporary art.

Founded in 2007 by Baron Osuna, Super Window Project was a production and diffusion structure operating in the field of contemporary. The offices and the gallery closed in December 2014. Baron Osuna is currently LVADGI & HORIZONS Headquarter Manager.

Gloria Maria Cappelletti is a Milan-based curator, editor, and promoter of digital and experimental art. She founded Gloria Maria Gallery, where she has championed both influential digital artists and emerging talents. She is also Lecturer in Project Methodology of Visual Communication at NABA in Milan.

LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia, and has appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Japan Times, Los Angeles Times, La Stampa, Bookforum, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail among others.

PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected authors and cultural institutions - including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, LG Williams, and the di Rosa C

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1545487731
• ISBN13: 9781545487730
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"