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Concentrated and impressive survey of Douglas Gordon’s work at MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst

FRANKFURT.- With the major solo exhibition “Douglas Gordon” (19 November 2011–25 March 2012), the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst presents an artist who is one of the most important and most influential of his generation. While he gained renown above all for his films and large video installations, his oeuvre also comprises photographs, texts, sculptures and sound installations. Douglas Gordon (b. 1966 in Glasgow) has been a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2010. The MMK has in its possession one of Gordon’s magnum opera—the video installation Play Dead; Real Time (2003)—as well as a number of other photo and video works. These holdings now form the point of departure for the first major survey in Europe since Gordon’s presentation at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2007.