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Monday 5 December 2011
Martin Boyce - Winner of 2011 Turner Prize - "Do Words Have Voices"
Boyce created an installation for the exhibition in Gateshead – the first time the Turner prize has been based outside the Tate family of galleries, and only the second time outside London – that has the feel of an interior space and a mournful municipal park.
Trees (in fact, the pillars that support the gallery ceiling) loom, their geometric aluminium leaves dappling the light that is cast over the space. On the ground, more leaves are scattered, this time cut from paper, each of them the same rebarbative, angular shape. There is a madly angular park bin, too. But there is also a desk, based on a library table by French modernist designer Jean Prouvé, with letters scratched into it as if by a child.
Boyce created an installation for the exhibition in Gateshead – the first time the Turner prize has been based outside the Tate family of galleries, and only the second time outside London – that has the feel of an interior space and a mournful municipal park.
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