Steve McQueen
Further images
Prey shows a tape recorder dangling from a balloon, floating up in to the sky, with the sound of tap dancing. The tap dancing sound is a real live recording, produced at same time as the film recording, not separately produced and inserted. This typifies McQueen s interest in simple and economic means of film making, typical of 1960 s Structuralist films.
Prey is a small projection, against a whitewash wall, with a rug on the floor below, as if to contrast against the tap dancing inclination the viewer might want to get involved in on hearing the tap dancing sounds of the shot. The element of being grounded is also a feature of the rug, as the balloon float in the to sky. Both are playful, spacial awareness means of communication that adds to the direct involvement of the viewer s experience.
Exhibitions
You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France, 6 – 30 July 2011; [travelled to: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY, 13 December 2011 – 17 February 2014]
Steve McQueen: Works, Schaulager Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1 March – 7 July 2013
The Future Demands Your Participation. Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 10 February – 21 March 2010
Passports. In viaggio con l’arte. 75 anni di pittura, scultura, fotografia e installazioni dalla collezione del British Council, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 14 July – 13 September 2009
Sounds and Visions. Artists’ Films and Videos from Europe. The Last Decade, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7 February – 2 May 2009
Steve McQueen, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, 18 March – 29 June 2004
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, 28 June 2002 – 12 January 2003
Black Box Recorder, Bunkier Szutki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland, 4 December 2001 – 15 January 2002
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France, 10 November – 22 December 2001
Steve McQueen, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela, 17 September – 26 October 2000; [travelled to: Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 16 November – 17 December 2000; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 26 April – 17 June 2001; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 21 June – 19 August 2001]
The Turner Prize 1999. An Exhibition of Work by the Shortlisted Artists: Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen, Steven Pippin, Jane and Louise Wilson, Tate Gallery, London, England, 20 October 1999 – 6 February 2000
Steve McQueen, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, 12 June – 15 August 1999
Collections
British Council, England
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Literature
I want the screen to be a massive mirror, Basel: Schaulager Basel, Steudler Press, 2013 p. 68 ill.
Steve McQueen: Works, Chicago: Art
Institute of Chicago; Basel: Schaulager Basel; Berlin: Kehrer, 2012 pp. 98-99
ill.
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the
British Council Collection, Shanghai: Shanghai
International Culture Association; London: British Council, 2010 pp. 56-57
Gioè, Angelo and Maria Rosa Sossai, eds., Sounds
& Visions: Artists’ films and videos from Europe: The last decade, Cinisello
Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2009
Steve McQueen, Wellesley MA: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 2004
Kystof, Doris, ed., Steve McQueen, texts by Gerald Matt, Doris Kystof, Thomas Miessgang and Ilka Becker, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2001 p. 52 ill.
Steve McQueen, Caracas: Sala Mendoza; Cape Town: Institute for Contemporary Art; São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2000 (n.p)