Zin Taylor
Three Ideas About Haze
Supportico Lopez
Kurfürstenstrasse 14/b
10785 Berlin
www.supporticolopez.com
13 November – 19 December 2015
Zin Taylor’s work revisits the process, construction and inscription of form
through specific cultural histories. With an expansive and philosophical
approach to art making, Taylor employs familiar visual cues to probe the
malleable and mysterious divisions between concept and material. He asks
how objects might translate thought and how ideas can find tangible
articulation in form, engaging a process where thoughts about a subject are
translated into forms about a subject, where abstraction and phenomenology
participate as tools in a narrative development of form.
Taylor writes, “I’ve been looking at how ideologies, in the past and present,
produce and adopt forms in order to distribute themselves. Haze, as it floats
in the air, collecting into discursive units, is one explanation as to how this can
happen; it’s how thoughts can adopt an alternative form in order to
communicate with a public.”
through specific cultural histories. With an expansive and philosophical
approach to art making, Taylor employs familiar visual cues to probe the
malleable and mysterious divisions between concept and material. He asks
how objects might translate thought and how ideas can find tangible
articulation in form, engaging a process where thoughts about a subject are
translated into forms about a subject, where abstraction and phenomenology
participate as tools in a narrative development of form.
Taylor writes, “I’ve been looking at how ideologies, in the past and present,
produce and adopt forms in order to distribute themselves. Haze, as it floats
in the air, collecting into discursive units, is one explanation as to how this can
happen; it’s how thoughts can adopt an alternative form in order to
communicate with a public.”
The exhibition Three Ideas About Haze presents a dialogue of new works
addressing the articulation of haze as an unformed narrative material. These
new works look at the middle zone where thoughts turn into tools in an effort
to translate interior thinking into an exterior visual form. Employing fabric,
sculpture and drawing, these three ideas distribute amongst the space within a
propositional scenario. A Stripe of Thought Navigating a Void of Haze
describes a number of sculptural screens comprised of one or units of
stretched cloth. The cotton fabric has been dyed using an elaborate process
involving the use of a wooden plate matrix, indexed with color, with the
pigment brought up through the cloth with the addition of tinted layers of
mist. These acidic compositions describe a series of void spaces, borrowing
from the language of hallucinogenic histories, that are demarcated with the
addition of a single black stripe that outlines a space for the thought to exist
within. These thin sculptural spaces are arranged upon a thirty-two meter wall
drawing, Thoughts of a Dot as it Traverses a Space (Lost Coast Haze
Retreat), describing the presence of haze within an organic scenario of rocks,
trees, palms, balloons, a BBQ and a club. An illustrated selection of forms that
feed on, collect, produce and redistribute this narrative material amongst
themselves, communicated by a thin black line as it travels the surface of the
gallery wall. Situated on the floor of the gallery is an arrangement of six
sculptures, Units Enunciating Through Posed Composition (Body Haze).
Composed of units derived from that of a human form, each employs a
language of gesture using only themselves as material. If the physical analog
of narrative is haze, these are forms that have collected this generative
substance within each limb, torso, and head. Their surfaces recording the
emergence of this material into moles and birthmarks, a cosmology of dots
and spots composing the surface narrative of each unit, their gestured
articulation relating to the verbal pronouncement of a thought.
addressing the articulation of haze as an unformed narrative material. These
new works look at the middle zone where thoughts turn into tools in an effort
to translate interior thinking into an exterior visual form. Employing fabric,
sculpture and drawing, these three ideas distribute amongst the space within a
propositional scenario. A Stripe of Thought Navigating a Void of Haze
describes a number of sculptural screens comprised of one or units of
stretched cloth. The cotton fabric has been dyed using an elaborate process
involving the use of a wooden plate matrix, indexed with color, with the
pigment brought up through the cloth with the addition of tinted layers of
mist. These acidic compositions describe a series of void spaces, borrowing
from the language of hallucinogenic histories, that are demarcated with the
addition of a single black stripe that outlines a space for the thought to exist
within. These thin sculptural spaces are arranged upon a thirty-two meter wall
drawing, Thoughts of a Dot as it Traverses a Space (Lost Coast Haze
Retreat), describing the presence of haze within an organic scenario of rocks,
trees, palms, balloons, a BBQ and a club. An illustrated selection of forms that
feed on, collect, produce and redistribute this narrative material amongst
themselves, communicated by a thin black line as it travels the surface of the
gallery wall. Situated on the floor of the gallery is an arrangement of six
sculptures, Units Enunciating Through Posed Composition (Body Haze).
Composed of units derived from that of a human form, each employs a
language of gesture using only themselves as material. If the physical analog
of narrative is haze, these are forms that have collected this generative
substance within each limb, torso, and head. Their surfaces recording the
emergence of this material into moles and birthmarks, a cosmology of dots
and spots composing the surface narrative of each unit, their gestured
articulation relating to the verbal pronouncement of a thought.
Al the images are courtesy of the artist and Supportico Lopez
Photo by Linda Fuchs
Photo by Linda Fuchs