Guest curators: Alberto Garcìa del Castillo, Agata Jastrząbek, Sophie Jung, Eglė Kulbokaitė
4, rue Wiltheim L-2733 Luxembourg
Tuesday-Saturday 11:00 - 18:00
projects@nosbaumreding.lu
Walking in a field, my cousin Tyler reaches towards the ground, returning with a little gold cap psilocybin mushroom he spots emerging from a very large pile of cow poo.
?Do you want to eat this?? Tyler asks, picking it out of the manure and offering it to Uncle Jeff, a friend of my parents who occasionally raised my brother and I.
?No.? Jeff replies. ?I don?t like where it comes from.?
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As botanics emerge from the earth, blooming within the air, so do forms develop as the result of thinking. A Void Flower is a unit of growth that emerges from a pool of thought. The Void is an hazy reservoir where ideas await the compositional tools of language: transitioning this abstract material from an interior existence, into that of an exterior enunciated one.
In moments of speech, thoughts built within one?s mind come out as words strung together: these units form meaning as they unravel into the air. Without dismissing the value that oblique sounds and bodily gestures contribute towards the emergence of an idea, we?ll say that, in general, moments of sonorous comprehension are the solid-gold enablers of verbal communication.
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A disembodied head is captured at that moment where it?s discovering, and locating, their eyeballs within a scene.
This same head is now accompanied by a wooden zig-zag, signaling that a thought is laterally emerging from its solidified form, connecting to something else off-camera.
A body/form extends vertically, a pole of gestured parts, parsing the space of a black void.
Three flowers (a nose, a mouth, an eye) are arranged upon a blank field. Features grown out of the primordial pool of ooze, transitioning from the nebulous into the representational.
Our namesake appears in a photographic style appropriated from Brancusi, the flowers appearing as initial elements of a thing that will soon have a name, as captured in the light of its own making.
An alternate version sits side-by-side with their 1980?s counterpart. A comparative trajectory enabled through the addition of color, forming a familial portrait of two cousins across time.
Figurative sculptures sit upon the ground. Composed of units derived from that of a body, these arrangements employ a language of gesture using only themselves as material. If the physical analog of narrative is haze (which it is) these are forms that have collected this generative substance within each limb, torso, and head: arrangements enunciating discourse, through the posed composition of their parts.
- Zin Taylor
b. 1978 in Calgary, Canada
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Solo Exhibitions
2015
The Reclining Hippy and the Envelope - Bureau des Realites, Brussels, Belgium
Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus: A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych) - Portikus - Frankfurt, Germany
TBA - In Light of 25 Years - Witte de With - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Solo Show - Nosbaum Reding - Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Solo Show - Supportico Lopez - Berlin, Germany
Two-person show (with Ute Muller) - Galleria collicaligreggi - Sicily, Italy
2014
Karl?s Body - Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz - Vienna, Austria
The Illustrator - 1646 - The Hague, The Netherlands
Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag - 21er Haus - Vienna, Austria
The Tangental Zig-Zag, Kunstraum - London, England
Portals (SUN MILK) - Maison Gregoire - Brussels, Belgium
Dirt Not Copper - Two-person show with Lorna MacIntyre - 221a - Vancouver, Canada
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7) - Jessica Bradley Gallery - Toronto, Canada
2013
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 6) - Southern Alberta Art Gallery - Lethbridge, Canada
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5) - Fogo Island Arts - Fogo Island, Canada
Letterhead - Kunsthal Charlottenborg - Copenhagen, Denmark
Alphabet City - MiArt with Supportico Lopez - Milan, Italy
Parrot Soup - Supportico Lopez - Berlin, Germany
2012
The Ceremony and The Spirit (with Roe Ethridge) - La Loge - Brussels, Belgium
Art Statements - Art Basel - Basel, Switzerland
The Story of Stripes and Dots (chapter 2) - Jessica Bradley - Toronto, Canada
The Story of Stripes and Dots (chapter 1) - MuHKA - Antwerp, Belgium
2011
The Flute of Sub - The Artist's Institute - New York, USA
Growth - KIOSK - Gent, Belgium
The Instruments - ABC Berlin - Berlin, Germany
The Five Arms of Supportico - Supportico Lopez - Berlin, Germany
The Units - Ursula Blickle Stiftung - Kraichtal, Germany
The Voids - Galerie Vidal Cuglietta - Brussels, Belgium
2010
The Nine Fingers of Malakoff - Pavilion Projects / Les Maison des Arts de Malakoff - Malakoff, France
The Bakery of Blok (first arrangement) - Front Room - Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, USA
2009
The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit - Miguel Abreu Gallery - New York, USA
The Bakery of Blok - Jessica Bradley - Toronto, Canada
2008
The Crystal Ship - BELvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium / Etablissement d?en Face Projects - Brussels, Belgium
2007
The Flute of Sub - Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi - Berlin, Germany
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger?s Metro-net Station in Dawson City, Yukon - Etablissement d?en Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Who Named the Days? - Jessica Bradley - Toronto, Canada
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger?s Metro-net Station in Dawson City, Yukon - YYZ Artist-Outlet - Toronto, Canada
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger?s Metro-net Station in Dawson City, Yukon - Presentation House Gallery - Vancouver, Canada
2005
Nub - Diaz Contemporary - Toronto, Canada
The Spiders - Collaborative project with Damian Moppett - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003
The Flower Called Nowhere - Artspace, Peterborough, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2015
AXOLOTLISM - Nogueras|Blanchard Gallery - Madrid, Spain
Out of Line - Oakville Galleries - Oakville, Canada
Trust - Copenhagen Art Festival: Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Kunstforeningen GL STRAND - Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils - Supportico Lopez - Berlin, Germany
Thinking Things - CGP London - Dilston Grove - London, England
Interprète - Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau - Paris, France
The Tools - Root Division - San Franciso, USA
2013
The Way of the Shovel - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, USA
Storytelling - National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa, Canada
Collection - FRAC Basse-Normandie - Caen, France
Salon der Angst - Kunsthalle Wien - Vienna, Austria
IN THE HOUSE OF MR & MRS - Temporary Gallery - Cologne, Germany
An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains - The Model - Sligo, Ireland
Dawson Gold - Carleton University Art Gallery - Ottawa, CA
A Handful of Dust - Contemporary Arts Forum - Santa Barbara, USA
2012
Stoppages - Hessel Museum of Art - Bard College, USA
Manufacture - Centre PasquArt - Biel, Switzerland
2011
Ex-Libris - Galerie VidalCuglietta - Brussels, Belgium
We Don't Need To Need to Do This - MOT International - London, United Kingdom
Melanchotopia - Witte de With - Rotterdam - The Netherlands
2010
Architectooralooral - 1857 - Oslo, Norway
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
The Archeologists - Ursula Blickle Stiftung - Kraichtal, Germany
Dream Machines: Objects and Physical Phenomena (A Reciprocal Love Story) ? Beaubourg, Brussels, Belgium
Transformers - Jessica Bradley - Toronto, Canada
Architecture of Survival ? Komplot - Brussels, Belgium
2007
Ideas of North - Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi - Berlin, Germany
18:Beckett - Walter Phillips Gallery - Banff, Canada
2006
Habitat - Jessica Bradley - Toronto, Canada
18:Beckett - Blackwood Gallery - Toronto, Canada
Poster Project - Toronto Sculpture Garden - Toronto, Canada
Du coté de Jessica Bradley Art + Projects - Galerie René Blouin - Montreal, Canada
2005
Arm in Arm - Or Gallery - Vancouver, Canada
Dedicated to you but you weren?t listening - Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
What the World?s Like With The Words We Like - Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Switch - University at Buffalo Gallery - Buffalo, NY, USA
Publish or Perish - Open Space Gallery - Victoria, Canada
New Toronto Artists in Adelaide - Downtown Art Space - Adelaide, Australia
2003
Soundtracks: Re-Play (Touring 2003 ? 2005)
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
- MacKenzie Gallery, Regina
- Interaccess Gallery, Toronto
- Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton