Margarita Gluzberg
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Margarita Gluzberg (born 1968) is a Russian-born British artist.[1] Her work encompasses drawing, photography, painting, performance and sound installation. She first became known for her detailed black and white large-scale drawings.[2][3] "Gluzberg has been making hair drawings since the 1990s, exploring this luscious surface beyond which lies the unknowable brain".[4]
Biography
Margarita Gluzberg was born in Moscow, USSR.[4] Her father is the novelist Zinovy Zinik.[5] He emigrated to the West - she and her mother followed in 1979, settling in London. Becoming bilingual later influenced her performance lecture 'Simultaneous Translation Through a Mouth Without Organs' at Tate Britain.[6][7]
While still at school in London, Gluzberg illustrated several children's books including Modge and Podge by Helen Muir.[8]
Her first works to be reviewed in the press: a series of large scale wig drawings, were shown in 1997 as part of 'Bcc' a group exhibition curated by Andrew Renton.[9]
In 2004 Gluzberg was awarded the Wingate Scholarship at the British School at Rome where she spent six months.[10]
Over the next two decades, Gluzberg's solo exhibitions explored desire and consumption, and the artist's own Soviet past. Sam Thorne wrote in Frieze magazine how: 'Gluzberg's drawings pinpoint this very Postmodern kind of desire, striving for a liminal space in which metaphor and materiality are confused'.[11] Laura K Jones described her 2008 exhibition 'The Money Plot', Paradise Row, as 'a journey through the artist's Soviet childhood, when consumer lust was no doubt a constant for many'.[12] In 'Avenue Des Gobelins', Paradise Row 2012, Gluzberg for the first time used photography to depict 'what we're always left with: the endless fug of desire itself.'[4] In the words of writer Tom McCarthy: 'Avenue des Gobelins, charts a journey into capitalism—into a space of capitalism which is an imaginative, or imaginary space as much as a physical one.'[13]
In 2009 Gluzberg was commissioned to create a new sound installation for the Paris Nuit Blanche.[14] Since then, the work has become an ongoing research project into vinyl recordings of birdsong: the 'Captive Bird Society',[15] that included a performances at the Wysing Arts Centre[16] and an Artangel commission for Elizabeth Price's exhibition Slowdans in 2020.[17]
In 2014, she was awarded a Welcome Trust Public Engagement Grant for her 'Rock on Bones' project[18] which was realised through a series of performance lectures including the De La Warr Pavilion,[19] and culminating in 'Bones' – a multimedia event at the Royal College of Art where she was at the time, Reader In Contemporary Visual Production.[20]
Gluzberg was appointed Senior Lecturer at The Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts in 2018.
In 2020, during the global pandemic Gluzberg was invited to contribute to the #100NHSRooms project with new geometric drawings.[21] For her most recent solo exhibitions in London–'Proper Time' at Karsten Schubert (2022),[22] and 'Otherwhere' at Alma Pearl (2023),[23] Gluzberg developed these geometric works into a series of pastel sphere drawings, that the philosopher Federico Campagna described to be a practice where: 'Each drawing brings back to life the previous one and allows the next one to take place. The chain of repetitions can be potentially infinite.'[24]
References
- ↑ Sherwin, Skye (2012-01-05). "Artist of the week 171: Margarita Gluzberg". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
- ↑ Manchester, Clare (1998-12-01). "Of monsters, aliens and wigs: Margarita Gluzberg in conversation with Clare Manchester". MAKE: The Magazine of Women's Art. pp. 4–8.
- ↑ Collings, Matthew (2001). Art Crazy Nation: The Post Blimey Art World. 21 Pub. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-901785-08-1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sherwin, Skye (2012-01-05). "Artist of the week 171: Margarita Gluzberg". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ mistertrippy (2011-11-20). "From Paradise Row To A Rock & Roll Toilet". Better Living Thru Chemistry. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Gluzberg, Margarita (2008). "Simultaneous Translation Through a Mouth Without Organs - Folie à Deux: Bacon and Deleuze". Tate Britain.
- ↑ Tate. "Folie à Deux: Bacon and Deleuze audio recordings". Tate. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Muir, Helen (1989). Modge & Podge. Dial Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0-8037-0584-5.
- ↑ "Stephen Hepworth Curator". Stephen Hepworth. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Artist Detail". archive.wingate.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Thorne, Sam (2007-06-06). "Margarita Gluzberg". Frieze. No. 108. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Jones, Laura K. (2008-05-16). "Margarita Gluzberg". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "BOMB Magazine | Circuits and Loops: Tom McCarthy & Margarita Gluzberg". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Nuit Blanche 2009 : Quartier Latin". Le Figaro (in français). 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Gluzberg, Margarita (2008). "Captive Bird Society". researchonline.rca.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Annual Music Festival Archive – Wysing Arts Centre". www.wysingartscentre.org. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Margarita Gluzberg, Actual Song of the Canary Bird (part of SLOW DANS events programme) (2020), retrieved 2024-02-03
- ↑ "Grants awarded: Small Arts Awards". Wellcome. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Dear Serge - November 2014". DLWP, The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ Gluzberg, Margarita (2016). "BONES". researchonline.rca.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Margarita Gluzberg". Vital Arts. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Margarita Gluzberg | 20 October - 19 November 2022". Karsten Schubert London. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Margarita Gluzberg | 3 November 2023 - 13 January 2024 - Overview". Alma Pearl. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ↑ "Publication: Margarita Gluzberg - Proper Time". Karsten Schubert London. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
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