Liam Gillick's Modular Show at Kin, Brussels Evokes Emptied Modernism

Liam Gillick's exhibition 'Fact Structures Amount Structures Language Structures' at Kin, Brussels (1 March – 19 April) presents wall-mounted sculptures and reliefs from aluminium T-slot extrusions, powder-coated in bright colors. The works reference American Minimalism, particularly Donald Judd and Dan Flavin. Gillick draws on the RAL color standard (Germany, 1927) and the ISOTYPE pictogram system by Marie and Otto Neurath (1920s), using their idealistic, universalist impulses to highlight how such vocabularies have been degraded and emptied of effect. The show includes two framed mockups for book covers with diagrammatic symbols in thought bubbles. A concurrent exhibition with a similar title is at Esther Schipper, Berlin.