Philip Taaffe “Sculpture + Drawing”
Carolina Nitsch Project Room
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Carolina Nitsch announces an exhibition of recent sculpture and drawing by Philip Taaffe. On view will be stamped , carved alabaster serpents as well as a monumental drawing with collage . s work involves a combination of process and techniques including silkscreen, stencil , collage, m arbling, and staining, which are often overprinted or repeated, resulting in absorbing, complex works . His pieces contain a range of intertwined influences from the Middle East and India to North Africa and South America, which vibrate and become challenging to decipher. The spiral motif has been used as a symbol in many cultures and art for thousands of years and is the central imagery in this exhibition. T he six sculptures on view are hand carved from Spanish Alabaster, titled Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi (Today it’s me, tomorrow it will be you). They are interpretations of Quetzalcoatl , the feathered serpent deity in Pre - Columbian culture , which represented fertility and Spring . Quetzalcoatl was sometimes symbolized by a conch shell cut at the cross - section and was likely worn as a necklace by shamans . The coiled serpents echo this spiral theme and are further layered with stamped patterns. The 10 square collage , Study for Unit of Direction , 2003 , is a variation of a Fraser spiral which is an optical illusion of overlapping black arc segments that appear to form a spiral; however, the arcs are actually a series of concentric circles.
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from September 10, 2015 to November 07, 2015