Zoo Art Fair: An Aside
12th-15th October 2007
Since Zoo Art Fair’s launch in 2004 the Zabludowicz Collection as been a key supporter and this relationship continues today.
An Aside
176 at Zoo Art Fair 2007
12th - 15th October
176, the Zabludowicz Collection’s not for profit project space, opened in Chalk Farm, London in September 2007. The inaugural exhibition An Archaeology features works drawn from the Collection, examining the notion of history as a subjectively shifting dynamic, and the role of a contemporary collection in recording such histories.
As an extension of An Archaeology , 176 presents An Aside, a special exhibition at Zoo Art Fair 2007. The artists represented at Zoo offer contemporary re-imaginings of works from 16th & 18th Century painting, Shakespeare, Milton, New Wave and Psycho music, as well as featuring dystopian landscapes with glimpses of apocalyptic futures.
Dan Attoe (USA), Jimmy Baker (USA), Skafte Kuhn (Germany), Jen Liu (USA) and Eline McGeorge (Norway) explore and observe abstract thought and its relation to living and shared experience. The selected works all embody an investigation into the moment, suggesting multiple possibilities and simultaneous outcomes. Aside from what is immediately insinuated, there is an implication of conflicting positions and counterpoints within the subject; individuals wrestling with progress, history and capturing the sites of tension in everyday life. The works attempt to solidify contemporary living, recording and note-taking as a way of interpreting meaning, stimulating an intense, dynamic, archive of human activity and collective symbolisms of the future.
The Zabludowicz Collection was founded in 1995 and currently comprises over 1,000 works by more than 350 contemporary artists from 33 countries. It is one of the first major contemporary art collections in the UK to focus on emerging artists on a global level.
Please also visit 176 to see An Archaeology
Zoo Art Fair
6 Burlington Gardens
London, W1S 3EX
www.zooartfair.com