Tobias
Madison
Madison
Galerie
Francesca Pia
Francesca Pia
February
20 – April 11, 2015
20 – April 11, 2015
Galerie Francesca Pia
Limmatstrasse 268
CH-8005 Zürich
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All Images:
All Images:
Courtesy
Galerie Francesca Pia and the artist.
Galerie Francesca Pia and the artist.
Photo:
Annik Wetter
Annik Wetter
Francesca
Pia Gallery is happy to announce the first exhibition by Tobias Madison, who
has been represented by the gallery since 2013. For the exhibition, the
gallery’s architecture has undergone a number of changes, reflecting on an
ambivalence towards the space. Neither improvements nor sabotage, they merely
allow a different kind of air circulation.
Pia Gallery is happy to announce the first exhibition by Tobias Madison, who
has been represented by the gallery since 2013. For the exhibition, the
gallery’s architecture has undergone a number of changes, reflecting on an
ambivalence towards the space. Neither improvements nor sabotage, they merely
allow a different kind of air circulation.
Within
Madison is presenting a new body of work, all untitled, 2015.
Madison is presenting a new body of work, all untitled, 2015.
Made
out of wood, polyurethane and epoxy resin they are framing or supporting
structures for dried up iodine. The works present themselves as a problem: They
cleanse but stain, they kill but cure, they seem like the body but are not
the body. While what is being supported or framed seems to be blackened out,
the works in their collective appearance are drawing out a framework for a
house that perhaps ultimately only one person could live in. Madison claims that they were not made
with coherence in mind but rather and only for a certain manner of speaking,
one that he sees as present when Francesca Pia herself is speaking.
out of wood, polyurethane and epoxy resin they are framing or supporting
structures for dried up iodine. The works present themselves as a problem: They
cleanse but stain, they kill but cure, they seem like the body but are not
the body. While what is being supported or framed seems to be blackened out,
the works in their collective appearance are drawing out a framework for a
house that perhaps ultimately only one person could live in. Madison claims that they were not made
with coherence in mind but rather and only for a certain manner of speaking,
one that he sees as present when Francesca Pia herself is speaking.
On
the occasion of the opening Madison will sing the song “Plastic Palace
People” by Scott Walker from 1968, channelling the singer’s precarious
role as an industry insider looking outside.
the occasion of the opening Madison will sing the song “Plastic Palace
People” by Scott Walker from 1968, channelling the singer’s precarious
role as an industry insider looking outside.