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Galerie Max Hetzler: Toby Ziegler - 20 Nov 2009 to 30 Jan 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Toby Ziegler November 20, 2009 - January 30, 2010 Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present British artist Toby Ziegler�s first solo exhibition in Germany. In recent years Ziegler has developed a vocabulary based on computer manipulated imagery. This exhibition features recent paintings, sculptures and collages that bring together motifs derived from a wide range of sources, including portraits of the Freud family, Egyptian sculpture, and Nineteenth Century landscape painting. Ziegler makes use of the computer to generate forms for his sculptures, and to manipulate layers of pattern to create pictorial space in the 2-D works. The physical realisation of these digital forms allows mistakes and idiosyncracies to creep into the rigorous schematic process. He revels in the slippage between the virtual and actual, and furthermore in the very physical acts of distorting, damaging and distressing the materials. It�s as though he�s giving them a good poke to make sure that they really exist. The title of one work The Art of Sinking refers to an essay by Alexander Pope, in which he first defined the term �bathos�, suggesting that there is poignancy and humour in the juxtaposition of the sublime and the base. The works on paper are made of several layers of ripped ink-jet images. The sculptures are constructed from hundreds of polygons of oxidized aluminium. They depict familiar icons which have suffered a loss of resolution, underscoring the way a symbolic character can evolve. The paintings are a hybrid construct of landscape and cloud imagery, the contours of figures, meshes of geometric pattern and gestural brush strokes which challenge the viewer to tease out the fractured narratives. While Ziegler provides the viewer with some access to follow his path he intentionally leaves room for personal interpretation. Toby Ziegler, born in London in 1972, studied at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. He lives and works in London. Ziegler has participated in several solo and group exhibitions including Hamsterwheel, initiated by Franz West, Malm� Konsthall, Malm�, Sweden (2008); Recent Abstraction, British Art Display 1500-2007; Tate Britain, London (2007); build architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); Archipeinture: artists build architecture, Le Plateau, Paris (2006) and The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon (2005). His work is featured in major private and public collections including The Arts Council (London); the British Council (UK); Tate Britain (London); Saatchi Gallery (London); Fran�ois Pinault collection, Paris; Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art (US) and Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (Australia). Toby Ziegler 1972 Born in London 1991-1994 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London (B.A. Hons Fine Art) 2004-2006 Residency at Delfina Studios, London Lives and works in London Solo Exhibitions 2009 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2008 The Liberals Simon Lee Gallery, London Danish Pastry / Rose of Mohammed Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, D�sseldorf The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles 2007 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2006 Simon Lee Gallery, London 2005 Enter Desire Chisenhale Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 2009 The White Show (curated by Caroline Douglas) PM Gallery and House, London Accrochage Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Cui Prodest? (curated by Francseco Stocchi) New Galerie de France, Paris Reframing (curated by Barry Schwabsky) CCA Andratx, Mallorca Natural Wonders: New Art from London (curated by Nick Hackworth) Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow 2008 RU(technhe) TH(episteme)8? Hats Plus, London Parkhaus Kunsthalle D�sseldorf, D�sseldorf Hamster Wheel (curated by Franz West) Malm� Konsthall, Malm� Thuring and Ziegler 10 Vyner Street, London Nature is a Workshop: selected from the Arts Council Collection Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate 2007 Hamster Wheel (curated by Franz West) Centre d'Art Santa M�nica, Barcelona; Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse; Tesa della Nuovissima, Arsenale of Venice Size Matters: XXL - Recent Large-Scale Paintings Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill Souffl� (curated by Franz West) Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck How to Improve the World Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Recent Abstraction, British Art Display 1500 � 2007 Tate Britain, London 2006 Out of Place The New Art Gallery, Wallsall Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (curated by Barry Schwabsky) Asb�k, Copenhagen Archipenture: painters build architecture Camden Arts Centre, London Archipenture: artists build architecture Le Plateau - FRAC d�Ile de France, Paris Supernova City Art Gallery, Prague 2005 The Future Lasts a Long Time Le Consortium, Dijon Ordering the Ordinary (curated by David Thorp) Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Supernova Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Of Contemporary Art Poland, Krakow; Kunstihoone, Tallinn; Centre Of Contemporary Art, Vilnius 2004 Kingdom The Market, Glasgow Contrapop Vamiali's, Athens Expander Royal Academy of Arts, London John Moores 23 The Walker, Liverpool The Future Lasts a Long Time Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Collection 1 (curated by Stephen Hepworth) Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence 2003 Art Kliasma 2003 Moscow EAST international Norwich Gallery, Norwich Civilia Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Creek Cell project space, London 2002 Project with Christopher Landoni and Oliver Michaels King of Norway�s house, Piccadilly, London Hypnotising Chickens One in the Other, London 2001 Sages, Scientists and Madmen One in the Other, London |
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