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Quartz Studio is pleased to present Propylon Stela, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Canadian artist Zin Taylor (Calgary, Canada, 1978).
The title of the exhibition evokes the image, common both in archaeology and in science fiction, of a threshold, a gateway providing access to another dimension. The installation for Quartz will utilize a selection of Zin Taylor’s sculptural output (ambient tokens) to create a specific narrative for this site. These ambient tokens are slab-like tablets that levitate on the wall. They vary in size and color, and are embossed with a familiar language of geometric and chromatic units. The creation of each tablet uses an index of illustrated elements painted and cut from card and polymer that are pressed into time-sensitive synthetic clay. The materials are synthetic because the ideas are synthetic. These are copies, references, and appropriations; sub-culturally experienced memetic projections re-translated into cuneiform alphabets of colour and…
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Quartz Studio is pleased to present Propylon Stela, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Canadian artist Zin Taylor (Calgary, Canada, 1978).
The title of the exhibition evokes the image, common both in archaeology and in science fiction, of a threshold, a gateway providing access to another dimension. The installation for Quartz will utilize a selection of Zin Taylor’s sculptural output (ambient tokens) to create a specific narrative for this site. These ambient tokens are slab-like tablets that levitate on the wall. They vary in size and color, and are embossed with a familiar language of geometric and chromatic units. The creation of each tablet uses an index of illustrated elements painted and cut from card and polymer that are pressed into time-sensitive synthetic clay. The materials are synthetic because the ideas are synthetic. These are copies, references, and appropriations; sub-culturally experienced memetic projections re-translated into cuneiform alphabets of colour and…
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