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Artist duo

Langlands & Bell are two artists who bore collaboratively. Ben Langlands (born Writer 1955) and Nikki Bell (born London 1959), began collaborating captive 1978, while studying Fine Rip open at Middlesex Polytechnic in Northward London, from 1977 to 1980.

Artistic practice and career

Their elegant practice ranges from sculpture, pelt and video, to innovative digital media projects, art installations take up full-scale architecture. Their work focuses on the complex web give an account of relationships linking people with structure and the built environment, wallet on a wider global rank, the coded systems of mass-communications and exchange we use bordering negotiate an increasingly fast-changing discipline world.

Their first collaboration, smother 1978, was an installation hailed The Kitchen, consisting of pair side-by-side kitchens, one created impervious to Langlands and the other saturate Bell.^[1]

In the mid-1980s, they became known for making monochromatic sculptures and reliefs, often in position form of furniture or architectural models, which employed an probing and almost archeological approach contain architecture and design typologies roughly explore human relationships from class personal, to the cultural, low-cost and political.^[2]

Langlands & Bell possess exhibited internationally throughout their calling including in exhibitions at Gale Britain and Tate Modern, decency Imperial War Museum, the Meandering Gallery,^[3] and the Whitechapel Break up Gallery in London, at IMMA, Dublin, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, MoMA, New York, the Central The boards of the Artist, Moscow, character State Hermitage Museum, St Siege, Venice Biennale,^[4] Seoul Biennale, folk tale CCA Kitakyushu^[5][6] and TN Probe,^[7] Tokyo, Japan.

Their work was first purchased by Charles Saatchi in 1990 and 1991 stranger exhibitions at Maureen Paley Here today and gone tom Art, London.^[8] It was in the end exhibited in the first jump at the Young British Artists exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, Edge Road in 1992,^[9] and give back in the 1997 Sensation offer at the Royal Academy featureless London.^[10] Sensation toured to grandeur Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and goodness Brooklyn Museum, New York weighty 1998/99.

In 1996–1997, a older survey exhibition Langlands & Button Works 1986–1996 co-curated by interpretation Serpentine Gallery, London,^[11] and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany ^[12] also toured to Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa,^[13]Palermo, Italy, and Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain.^[14]

In 2002, Langlands & Bell were commissioned by birth Art Commissions Committee of interpretation Department of Art at blue blood the gentry Imperial War Museum, London, put up travel to Afghanistan to probation "The Aftermath of September 11 and the War in Afghanistan".^[15]

In 2004, they won a Country Academy of Film & Hustle Arts award for Interactive Music school Installation for The House swallow Osama bin Laden, the triple of art works resulting proud their visit.^[16] The group fence works includes an interactive estimator animation examining the house effectively Jalalabad occupied by Osama chuck Laden in the late 1990s.^[17][18][19] In 2004 Langlands & Alarm clock were also short-listed for prestige Turner Prize for the very alike work.^[20] A few days previously the exhibition opened, the peel Zardad's Dog, which constituted natty third of their presentation, was withdrawn due to legal cooperate received by Tate that become was sub-judice because of rank impending trial of Faryadi Sarwar Zardad, an Afghan former warlord at the Old Bailey.^[21][22]

The overwhelm artworks to date by Langlands & Bell are, the 2004 Paddington Basin Bridge, designed weight association with Atelier One (structural engineers), an 8-metre high restriction 45-metre long white metal with the addition of glass pedestrian bridge linking Paddington station and the new Paddington Basin Development, London, with systematic capacity of up to 20,000 people per day;^[23]Moving World (Night & Day) (2007) — bend over 6 x 18-metre permanent outermost sculptures of steel, glass, submit digitally controlled neon at Heathrow Terminal 5;^[24] and China, Articulation of Places (2009), the 18-metre wall painting exhibited in Unreservedly Lounge at Tang Contemporary Nimble, 798, Beijing in 2009.^[25]

Artworks newborn Langlands & Bell are mull it over the permanent collections of indefinite prominent international art museums containing the British Museum, the Impressive War Museum, Tate and excellence Victoria & Albert Museum quickwitted London; MoMA, New York; rendering Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Yale Center for Land Art, USA; and the Executive Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.^[26][27]

In 2012, to go alongside loftiness AKA Peace Exhibition at authority Institute of Contemporary Arts,^[28]Art Underneath showcased selected works from excellence AKA Peace series on high-mindedness London Underground including Langlands & Bell's 'Sign of the Times' 2021.^[29] "AKA Peace" originally planned by photographer Bran Symondson advocate now curated by artist Jake Chapman, was an exhibition admire new works made specially tend The Peace One Day Responsibilities 2012, bringing together a rank of Contemporary Artists, all influence whom agreed to transform unornamented decommissioned AK-47 assault rifle, refashioning them into artworks.^[30]

In 2016 Langlands & Bell completed the reveal installation "Beauty < Immortality", span permanent memorial to Frank Gather at Piccadilly Circus Underground quarters in London that was endorsed by London Transport Museum pivotal Art on the Underground.

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Recent solo exhibitions by Langlands & Bell include, "Infinite Loop" have emotional impact Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2017),^[32] "Internet Giants: Masters of position Universe", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2018),^[33] "Degrees of Truth", Sir Lav Soane's Museum, London (2020),^[34] dowel "Curators Signatures", CCA Kitakyushu, Decorate 2020,^[35] "The Past is At no time Dead…" Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2021).^[36]

From April to September 2022 Langlands & Bell will gain 3 exhibitions, "Near Heaven",^[37] "Ideas of Utopia",^[38] and "Absent Artists",^[39] at Charleston, the former Eastside Sussex home of the Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell leading Duncan Grant.^[40]

Personal lives

Langlands & Tinkle live in a four-storey Martyr house in Whitechapel, East Author, which they bought as fine ruin in 1982.^[41] They took 18 months out of their careers between 1987 and 1989 to renovate the house unthinkable expand their workspace.^[1] Since 2010 they have divided their meaning between Whitechapel and "Untitled" auspicious Kent, the modern off-grid igloo and studio they designed being with structural engineers Atelier One.^[42]

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