Serpentine Gallery presents exhibition by British artist Michael Craig-Martin

LONDON Nov. 25（People's Daily Online)—— From 25 Nov 2015 to 14 Feb 2016, Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park will present exhibition "Transience" by well-known British artist Michael Craig-Martin. This is the first solo show of Craig-Martin’s work in a London public institution since 1989.

This exhibition will bring together works from 1981 to 2015. From the earliest work in the show, a wall drawing first produced in 1981, to a painting from 2014 that depicts the minimal lines of an iPhone, Craig-Martin’s work has recorded the profound impact that electronic technology has had on the way we consume and communicate. The exhibition explores the seismic shift from analogue processes to digital technologies that informed the production and distribution of new kinds of objects in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

As Marshall McLuhan wrote in his seminal book Understanding Media, which Craig-Martin read shortly after it was first published in 1964, ‘technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation’. Craig-Martin’s work holds up a mirror to these alterations, reminding us that we are as much produced by the objects we invent as they are by us. (Bai Tianxing)