Lisson Gallery 52-54 Bell Street

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Lisson Gallery was founded in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail. It was one of a small number of pioneering galleries in the UK, Europe and the United States to champion a generation of artists who were transforming the way art was made and presented, focusing on the idea or concept behind an artwork over expressive or descriptive aims. These young artists - including Sol LeWitt , Robert Mangold , Dan Graham, Don Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner , Art & Language, John Latham , Peter Joseph, Lee Ufan , Giulio Paolini , Daniel Buren - represented not a style but an attitude, an ethos concerning art's place in a wider intellectual, cultural and social context.

Over the past forty years Lisson Gallery has built on this foundation, identifying and supporting succeeding generations of artists, each with a radical and distinctive approach to the artistic possibilities of their times. The New British Sculptors who came to maturity in the early 1980s - Tony Cragg , Richard Deacon , Shirazeh Houshiary , Anish Kapoor , Julian Opie , Richard Wentworth and Bill Woodrow - engaged imaginatively with the sculptural object within a conceptual framework. In the 1990s, a more diverse group demonstrated a poetic conceptualism of image and language - Rodney Graham , Douglas Gordon , Ceal Floyer , Jonathan Monk , Christine Borland , Tatsuo Miyajima and Francis Alÿs - while other artists including Tony Oursler and Jane & Louise Wilson used the media of video and sound to create heightened visions of the social constructs of their age. A new generation has emerged in the first decade of 20th century - Gerard Byrne , Santiago Sierra , Allora & Calzadilla, Fernando Ortega , Sean Snyder, Tim Lee, Christian Jankowski - who explore the structures of representation and cultural value from global perspectives.

Building on its strong history, Lisson Gallery works to support the future of its artists: the legacy of historic figures, the continually evolving practice of established artists, and the wide-ranging potential of emerging and new talents.