Douglas Gordon. Prettymucheverywordwritten, spoken, heard, overheard from 1989. Voyage in Italy. [English text]

Douglas Gordon, born in Scotland in 1966, is now recognised as one of the most important international artists. Having always been interested in the dual expressive register of verbal communication and images in movement, Gordon became successful through his video installations of unusual dimensions and his texts, printed on the walls of exhibition spaces and set in the most diverse positions.
Over the last ten years he has exhibited in the principal galleries and major museums of the world. The most recent has been the Museum of Modern Art in New York where he held a retrospective in June this year.
At the Mart in Rovereto Douglas Gordon is holding his first solo exhibition organised by an Italian museum, presenting a selection of video installations and a large textual work specifically created or this occasion.
Alongside video and textual works the British artist has also worked in the mediums of photography, objects and film.
Already well-known for his videos which make use of sequences from famous Hollywood movies, Gordon studied at the Glasgow School of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London.
The work which has drawn the greatest international attention is 24 Hour Psycho, where the renowned film by Hitchcock is screened over a surreal time-span of 24 hours. A great part of the artist's work investigates popular culture, from films such as Rear window, The exorcist or Taxi Driver to anonymous documentaries, studying perceptive processes and interfering with the spectators expectations. His most recent work, a film about the French footballer Zinedine Zidane, made together with the French artist Philippe Parreno, was presented at the 2006 Cannes Festival.
During his career Gordon has received major international prizes such as the Turner Prize in 1966, a prize at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.
Among the most important artists of the great British art movement of the eighties and nineties, Douglas Gordon, Glasgow 1966 and winner of the 1996 Turner Prize, the most prestigious international prize for contemporary art, is considered one of the greatest contemporary video artists. Gordon, whose works are part of the permanent collections at some of the cult locations of contemporary art, such as the Tate Modern in London and the Guggenheim museum, will be giving his first extensive exhibition in Italy. The exhibition includes a cycle of works specially created for the Mart.