Adjoining Rooms
1989
Wood, glass, acrylic sheet, AC lacquer
3 items: 78 cm. x 142 cm. x 62 cm. each, 78 cm. x 426 cm. x 62 cm. overall.
Unique work.
Adjoining Rooms 1989 is the third work we made where we joined three table-vitrines end to end. The first, Traces of Living, 1986, contained found objects sourced from the streets and markets around our house in Whitechapel. The second, Degrees of Evidence 1987, contained fragments of unglazed white ceramic waste found on the pottery dumps of Stoke on Trent together with an architectural model of the City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent. In Adjoining Rooms 1989 the three tables are empty except for the coloured light and shadow cast by the coloured acrylic panels in the sides. With Adjoining Rooms 1989 the tables display themselves.
Exhibitions: Adjoining Rooms 1989: Langlands & Bell, Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt, 1989. Langlands & Bell Works 1986-1996, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany [cat]. 1996. Langlands & Bell at The Artist’s House, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury. UK. 2001; Degrees of Truth, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK. 2020. [cat].
Exhibitions: Adjoining Rooms artists maquette, 1989. Mode(l)s of Thought – Working Models 1979 – 2014 Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK.
Catalogues: Langlands & Bell, Works 1986-1989, pub: Interim Art, London; Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt. 1989. Langlands & Bell, Works 1986-1992 (The White Catalogue) pub: Interim Art, London; Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt; Valentina Moncada, Rome. 1992 . Langlands & Bell Works 1986-1996, pub: Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 1996. Degrees of Truth, pub. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK. 2020.
Catalogue Adjoining Rooms artists maquette, 1989: Mode(l)s of Thought. pub. Gibberd Gallery Harlow, UK
Collections: Adjoining Rooms 1989, Doris Lockhart-Saatchi, 1989. Tate, 2005.
Collections: Adjoining Rooms artists maquette, 1989, Private collection, London.
Installation views:
Langlands & Bell Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1989.
Langlands & Bell + The Artists House New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK, 2001.
Adjoining Rooms 1989, Tate Modern, 2020.
Artists maquette, 1989.
