Weds 18 June 6.30-8.30pm
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI in conversation with JJ Charlesworth and Jennifer Thatcher.
The artists will be in conversation with JJ Charlesworth (critic/reviews editor Art Review)
and Jennifer Thatcher (curator/Director of Talks, ICA).
Meet the artists, who will be discussing the art of text messaging, death and carbonization.
Until 30 June 2008
Artprojx Space is proud to present ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI’s first London solo show.
Known for their sumptuously beautiful and skillfully choreographed video works, ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI present a selection of recent films alongside new sculpture, text and photography.
The show will include, in its first exhibition, the text work Tyndale Box (2004-2008). A four and a half year project, completed whilst research fellows at Durham University, Tyndale Box is a translation of the entire Old and New testaments of the King James version of the bible into SMS text.
For their piece The Divine Comedy Z+Z were taught the dark art of carbonization by a Yorkshire woodman, transforming a human head to pure carbon, save for the enamel of the teeth and gold fillings. To further their alchemic apprenticeship they sought out the largest kiln in Europe, to produce The Fundamental Flaw, a 6 ft sculpture out of cast glass.
The stuff of life and death is both their subject and their material, with sculpture made from hand-spun golden human hair, or bone. In Away from the Flock (2008) we peer into a Victorian bell jar and a still-born goat skull smiles back with a wry cheeky grin, its mouth bejeweled with a 22ct gold capped tooth.
Amongst the selection of films on show are The Dance (2006) featuring a 7-day old baby boy jigging in time to Albéniz’ "Asturias" and Mother (2008) made with their recently deceased grandmother. Also featured are previously unseen works made whilst ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI were artists in residence at Durham Cathedral, when they sealed and filled their 12th Century studio with live canaries and gold finches for the year, producing a series of seductive and deftly crafted chiaroscuro video paintings, influenced by the works of Francisco De Zurburan.
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI graduated with 1st class honours from the department of Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh and Duncan of Jordanstone Colleges of Art in 1998 and have collaborated as artists since 2000. Based in London, they have exhibited widely at museums and galleries throughout Europe/ UK and the US, including Tate Britain, The Whitechapel, Herzliya Museum, Israel and Museum Haus Lange, Germany. In 2005-2006 they were recipients of the Durham Cathedral Artists residency award. Their work has been sold at auction in Sotheby’s Bond Street, Chicago, and Tel Aviv, most recently in the “Defining the Contemporary” auction for the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Thurs 26 June 6-9.30pm
ARTPROJX SPACE LATE
Curated by boyleANDshaw
ARTPROJX SPACE LATE is a series monthly interventions from contemporary art practitioners and curators who are creatively engaging with current philosophical and theoretical ideas. This could take the form of a performance, film screening or theorist/artist-led discussion.
For the next event curatorial collective Carmen Juliá, Ali MacGilp & Cassandra Needham present an experimental evening exploring the notion of collaboration within artistic practice.
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