Martin Creed_What's the point of it?

Martin Creed is one of Britain's most audacious and thought-provoking artists. Over the past two and a half decades British artist Martin Creed has pursued an extraordinary path by confounding the traditional categories of art. 

Winner of the 2001 Turner Prize, Creed is recognised around the world for his minimalistic approach that strips away the unnecessary, but preserves an abundance of wit, humour and surprise.

This exhibition surveys his work from 1984 to the present day.  Minimal gestures to room filling installations and uses music and sound. A lover of diversity, Creed orders or re-configures objects, colours and textures into unexpected series and sequences based on certain principles or limitations. His work comprises playful and emotive meditations on the invisible structures that shape our lives. Among other things, it reflects on the unease we face in making choices, the comfort me find in repetition, the desire to control, and the inevitable losses of control that shape existence.

For Creed, making work that takes on a multitude of shapes and forms is what keeps his practice situated in, and often inseparable from, the wider world.

MARTIN CREED WHAT'S THE POINT OF IT?
~27 April 2014
Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre