| Louis
Nixon |
| Flag |
| 14
September - 16 October 2005 |
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night of Louis Nixon's 'Flag' at The Economist (images
courtesy the artist) |
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Louis Nixon, 2005 |
| British
artist Louis Nixon launched the autumn programme of
exhibitions on the plaza at the Economist’s headquarters at
25 St James’s Street, London SW1. |
| Nixon
installed a 30ft
flag-pole in the centre of the Plaza on top of which a
projector projected a film piece on to the window of an
adjacent building bordering the Plaza. |
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his visits to Italy, Spain, East Germany, Poland, Serbia and South America, Nixon
has collected global logos from the sides of lorries, shop
hoardings, billboards, cigarette packets, soap bars, phone
cards, newspaper kiosks, plastic bags, medicine and food
packaging, petrol stations, international corporations and
businesses. From these the artist has invented ten different
global flags from reconfigurations of the original images. He
has subsequently filmed each flag raised and blowing in the
wind to create a continuously looped film projection of his
series of invented flags of non-existent places and
corporations. |
| Louis
Nixon has had an extensive career exhibiting internationally
including Century City at Tate
Modern 2000, Crossings at the 10th Biennial of Visual Arts in Serbia during
2002 and Everywhere Nowhere at Atelier 25 Italy 2005. |
| Louis
is represented by Dispari & Dispari, Italy. |
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