LONDON.- Victoria Miro announces a solo exhibition by Doug Aitken at the Mayfair gallery on view through 31 July. This summer marks a significant moment in the American artist’s career with two important European institutions celebrating his work: Station to Station opens at London’s Barbican on 27 June and a major survey exhibition opens at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on 9 July.

Victoria Miro Mayfair 12 June – 31 July 2015
This specific constellation of five key works has been conceived for the gallery by Doug Aitken and deals with contemporary ideas of time through the use of sound, touch, light and reflectivity, with each work existing in a zone between abstraction and representation. At the core of the exhibition is Eyes closed, wide awake (Sonic Fountain II), 2014, a free-standing sonic sculpture which combines water and sound to create an optical and auditory experience.

Doug Aitken is an American artist and filmmaker. Defying definitions of genre, he explores every medium, from film and installations to architectural interventions. His films often explore the modern condition, and his transformative installations create immersive cinematic experiences. He has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians, and his work has been exhibited in museums around the world. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He participated in the Whitney Biennial 1997 and 2000 and earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for the installation “electric earth”. Aitken received the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, and the 2013 Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award: Visual Arts. Works include: Sleepwalkers (MoMA, New York - 2007); Sonic Pavilion (INHOTIM, Brumadinho – 2009); Frontier (Rome – 2009 & Basel – 2010); Black Mirror (Athens/Hydra Island – 2011); Altered Earth (Arles, produced by LUMA Foundation – 2012); SONG 1 (Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC – 2012); MIRROR (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle – 2013).