Toby Ziegler
dal 26/1/2005 al 13/3/2005
Segnalato da
26/1/2005
Toby Ziegler
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Enter Desire. Artist's work shifts between pictorial clarity and intense pattern-making through his mix of painting, sculpture and installation. As a starting point for improvisation, he concentrates on the traditional genres of landscape, interiors and still life to produce visually resonant works, often painted on workman's industrial light-reflective fabric or Japanese paper.
Enter Desire
Toby Ziegler’s work shifts dramatically between pictorial clarity and intense pattern-making through his hybrid mix of painting, sculpture and installation. As a starting point for improvisation, he concentrates on the traditional genres of landscape, interiors and still life to produce visually resonant works, often painted on workman’s industrial light-reflective fabric or Japanese paper.
Ziegler makes use of interlocking geometric patterns and designs adapted from a wide variety of sources, contrasting hard-edged qualities against a painterly touch. The reflective and luminous properties of his works shift radically what is revealed to viewers depending on the angle from which the work is seen and the changing light conditions. This encourages a gradual deciphering of the complex spaces Ziegler both depicts and constructs. We can move from examining the surface qualities of how paint or ink is applied, to gaining a strong sense of illusory depth as a scene recedes, allowing the eye multiple points of entry.
There is a compelling visual logic to his works that inflect upon one another using a variety of supports and structures. Ziegler is fascinated by geometry and pattern-making and its use in describing everyday spaces and objects, whether manmade landscapes, bathroom or supermarket interiors, still lives or petrol stations.
Ziegler’s exhibition includes two large-scale landscape paintings; a reconfigured Persian rug, created by cutting undulating patterns into two rugs and interlocking them to form a new whole; a geometric latticework lantern, ten feet in height, with each panel hand-painted in Japanese ink on paper, depicting a generic pastoral scene with five separate vanishing points; and a glowing Sphinx, ten feet in length and six in height, constructed entirely from folded acetate and illuminated from within by a pulsing light. Wrapped around the Sphinx’s surface is a landscape printed in shades of grey and pink:
Toby Ziegler was born in 1972 and studied at Central St. Martin’s between 1991 and 1994. He lives and works in London. He was recently awarded a Delfina Studios residency. Recent exhibitions include: Kingdom, Market Gallery, Glasgow, 2004; The Future Lasts a Long Time, Talesther Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2004; Contrapop, Vamialis, Athens, 2004, Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2004; John Moores 23, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004; Collection 1 (curated by Stephen Hepworth), Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2004; Art Kliasma 2003, Moscow; EAST International, Norwich Gallery, 2003; Civilia, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 2003; Creek, Cell project space, London, 2003; Project with Christopher Landoni and Oliver Michaels; King of Norway’s house, London, 2002; Project with Christopher Landoni, Hoxton House, London, 2002.
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