poster for Angelbert Metoyer "ASK"

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Internationally recognized for his palimpsest style, throughout his career Angelbert Metoyer has employed an esoteric system of symbols and icons to bemuse viewers and present himself as a shamanistic seer. Lately, he has gone deeper into abstraction, aligning his work with contemporary science's ultimate abstractions: quantum mechanics and field theory.

Such a move, from myth to theory, does not deny the intuitions of the former, but rather refines them. Mystical holism becomes quantum entanglement. Taken by the idea that an object is what it is only insofar as it interacts with everything else, Metoyer thinks of his own imagination relating things nonlocally to many others. In End of All Race, a delicately drawn man in profile has ochre skin and wiry hair on his aging chest. The folds of his ear seem to have something alive and fierce within. His eye is the center of an apparent flower, which is actually the geometric effect of seven intersecting circles, two of which are annotated, "Don't Kill" and "I am looking." In New Body, an angelic/pupa-like form with the large head of an unhappy man detaches from a smallish body in office attire. Writings create an aura around the figure, and a crown with the markings "* # X" floats above his head. As with most sacral depictions, in these we are shown how things are thought, not seen.

Curated by Hikari Yokoyama

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from October 03, 2008 to October 25, 2008

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