Michael Craig-Martin, A is for Umbrella, 2007 Acrylic on aluminium 78-11/16 x 78-11/16 inches (200 x 200 cm)

LONDON.-Gagosian Gallery announced an exhibition of new work by Michael Craig-Martin, his first at Gagosian Gallery, London, Saturday, 1 December 2007 – Thursday, 31 January 2008. Throughout his career, Craig-Martin has explored the expressive and linguistic character of commonplace objects, evincing a dialogue between representation and reality in art. In the new paintings, outlines of everyday objects-- an umbrella, a light bulb, a drinking glass -- are drawn against a background of flat, vibrant colour. Over this he paints a single letter or combination of letters spelling commonplace words and phrases -- 'sex', 'no' or 'we', and so on. Such apparently random groupings draw attention to the relation between line and colour, word and image. Craig-Martin turns the everyday objects that recur throughout his work into pictogram-like images while creating narrative tension by juxtaposing and layering images and text.
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