Brian Griffiths: Bill Murray - A Story Of Distance, Size And Sincerity

In Bill Murray: A Story Of Distance, Size And Sincerity, artist Brian Griffiths presents an ambitious new commission that takes in BALTIC’s vast Level 4 gallery with a contrastingly small-scale production. A series of nine different style buildings, including a lavish LA beach house, a historic Scottish mansion and an ocean adventure dome, imagine Hollywood actor Bill Murray’s activities and pastimes.

A complex assemblage of architectural models, light, everyday objects and a documented performance of Bill Murray creates a metaphysical adventure story and a fantasy caricature complete with whisky minibar, grand piano and helicopter. BILL MURRAY: a story of distance, size and sincerity is an exhibition that enjoys and considers the effects of small, miniature, big, gigantic, the scaled up and scaled down, detail and overview. It is an exhibition that questions how one experiences and measures things. Griffiths has also reproduced an image of Bill Murray at Cannes Film Festival as a 20 metre-long banner, which appears on BALTIC’s north facade for the duration of the exhibition, playing once more with degrees of scale.