"Mark Leckey makes magic of contemporary life. Since the late 1980s, the British artist's stirring installations have channelled the power of music and pop culture, often using found video footage. His early works are a prophetic precursor to the internet's mash-up mentality. Moving through analogue to digital editing techniques, he has maintained a keen curiosity about our accelerating online realm."
"There is also a rich spirituality in his work, which reaches back through the centuries to conjure a time before reason dominated our worldview. And the City Stood Still in Its Brightness, his new solo show in Guggenheim Bilbao's mind-bending Frank Gehry building, begins this month. "The first time I went in there I was terrified!" says Leckey when we speak ahead of the opening."
Mark Leckey's installations channel music and pop culture through found video footage, moving from analogue to digital editing while anticipating internet mash-up sensibilities. His work combines technological curiosity about online life with a sustained spiritual register that evokes pre-rational worldviews. Recent presentations restage earlier pieces in unconventional settings and now scale up to occupy monumental architecture through immersive video and sound projection. A new solo exhibition in Guggenheim Bilbao uses the museum's projector system to disorient orientation and produce a church-like feeling, drawing inspiration from experimental fiction and film that explore alien landscapes and perceptual collapse.
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