TV Moore “Broken Echoes”
Olsen Gruin
[Image: TV Moore 'Brick Hand' (2017) Archival inkjet in unique frame 72 x 59 in.]
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OLSEN GRUIN presents “Broken Echoes,” - new work by the New York-based, pioneering Australian artist TV Moore (Timothy Vernon Moore).
Moore’s first solo exhibition in New York is a foray into sculpture, giving decadence to everyday objects, grandeur to the mundane. These meticulously-crafted sculptures started with a trip back to the artist’s mother’s house. For a few weeks in Canberra, Australia’s bush capital, he cut up and rearranged pieces of cardboard, with the plan to bring them back to life as important artifacts using 17 Century casting techniques. He made one suite and then looked back and found another suite in the negative spaces left behind. Motif’s include a cat, a flower, a guitar, a hand, a jug and a cloud.
There is a rich historical and biographical narrative to these works, a sense of ghosts and slipping back to an essence. These negative stacks hold the echoes of childhood in the form of gestures and shadows. Moore says that it is the simplest forms that hold the most water.
As always in Moore’s work, there is a technological paradox. This is the video artist whose work now engages more frequently with the outer definitions of painting. There is a sense of childhood in these sculptures that matches the finger-painting in his large-scale Cibachrome works. It is no accident they were made in the room where he grew up.
The hand is present in a process that would seek to obliterate it. The casts are rigged with a child’s doomed attempt at perfection, at staying inside the lines. The materials are at once permanent and fragile. There are echoes of Warhol, Matisse and Baldessari. Moore calls it “pop melancholia”.
TV Moore has always made sculpture. At art school he made a pathetic figure out of clothes stuffed with pillows, a penis hanging out of its jeans. At an opening, another artist kicked the work. Moore took him downstairs and proceeded to beat the shit out of him.
The shadows cast by the totems and wall works offer a gravitas to the miracles of the everyday, Miro meets Dubuffet. Ordinary objects are turned extraordinary by the artist’s choosing. Slow burns reveal the complexity of the artist’s hand, and imaginings.
TV Moore received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. His work has been shown in private and public institutions worldwide, and has been included in such International exhibitions as the Busan Biennale (South Korea), the Turin Triennale (Italy), as well as the 16th Biennale of Sydney. In 2015 Moore showed his Film Video Animation the Way Things Grow at Ugo Rondinone’s curated window at 39 Great Jones in NY.
His most recent solo museum exhibition With Love and Squalor at the Australian Center for Contemporary Art (ACCA) was a stand out.
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Schedule
from April 01, 2017 to May 01, 2017
Opening Reception on 2017-04-01 from 17:00 to 19:00