Any interpretation is valid in Martin Creed’s playful world. Everything is Going to Be Alright, the neon sign presented in Times Square, New York, is a declaration of optimism and at the same time an ironical comment on consumerism and on our dark present. Half The Air In a Given Space is an infinite multitude of coloured balloons filling up museums’ and galleries’ spaces: a new reading of classic contemporary art works (from The Artist’s Breath by Piero Manzoni to Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds) but also a playground where to become children again. Martin Creed’s light minimalism can also be extreme, taking the form of radical gestures such as Lights Going On and Off, presented at the Tate Gallery, London, where the entire work consisted of nothing more than a light switching on and off in the gallery.
Rhythm and music are part of Martin Creed’s table of the elements. The artist has crystallized the passing of time with a series of modified metronomes, he transformed a piano into an awkward machine which opens by itself and slam shut, and he has organized and played gigs with his rock band. Each single fragment of reality becomes a stimulus for Martin Creed to return to the roots of problems, to invent new absurd solutions, and to demonstrate bizarre theories.

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