REFLEX II THE BRAIN CLOSER THAN THE EYE JILL BAROFF | SUSAN MORRIS | BEAT ZODERER FEBRUARY 22 - MAY 5 2018
BARTHA CONTEMPORARY
REFLEX II The Brain Closer Than the Eye Jill Baroff / Susan Morris / Beat Zoderer Bartha Contemporary is pleased to announce REFLEX II: The Brain Closer Than The Eye with works by Jill Baroff, Susan Morris and Beat Zoderer. The exhibition is on view until May 5, 2018. Tuesday to Friday 11AM - 6PM and Saturday Noon to 4PM. Admission to Bartha Contemporary’s exhibitions is always free. The group exhibition showcases works made as a result of selfprescribed processes that rely on elements of chance and rigorous repetition. The title, originally derived from an exhibition by Gary Hill (1994 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel), inspired an exhibition at Bartha Contemporary in 2004 with works by Herbert Hamak, Winston Roeth and Rémy Zaugg. The 2004 show raised questions about how a painting is perceived. This exhibition, which focuses on drawing, will consider the notion of reflex as automaticity through repetitive movement. Jill Baroff’s (b. 1954, USA) large Tide drawings are patterns of place: mappings of time and geography. This body of work employs a self-structuring methodology, here depicted as concentric layers of circles drawn by hand using adapted radiographs and drafting compasses. Their visual appearance is solely determined by the process by which they are made. Conceived from large data sets, in the form of numerical information that the artist sources on the internet.
Equally, the use of modern technology to document movement and record time come together in Susan Morris’s (b. 1962, UK) recent Motion Capture Drawings. By making use of digital tracking devices worn on the body, the artist creates a record of seemingly repetitive gestures to produce images that reveal the very processes that determine their appearance. By plotting the digital data captured in three-dimensional space as a two-dimensional image, each movement displays as a single gesture in a web of information. Similarly, fold-lines that make up the structural foundation of Beat Zoderer’s (b. 1955, CH) recent ‘Fold & Dip’ drawings, employ chance as a compositional tool. Dipping sections of irregularly folded pieces of tracing paper into the paint and then unfolding the sheet to its original rectangular shape, Beat Zoderer reveals images that are at their inception coincidental. Their inherent geometric appearance is a consequence of the predetermined system that underlies the process of creating these works. The spontaneous process of making these drawings aims to find order in chaos.
Beat Zoderer Faltenguss No.3/18, 2018 Plaster 46 x 40 cm
Jill Baroff Elbe, 2014 Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag 115 x 115 cm
Jill Baroff New York Harbor (Xaver), 2014 Pigmented ink on Japanese gampi mounted on rag 115 x 115 cm
Beat Zoderer Kleiner Dip & Fold, 1 to 4, 2014 Acrylic on printed vellum Each 29 x 20.7 cm
Susan Morris Motion Capture Drawing [SPDR]: Facing View, 2012 Archival Inkjet on HahnemĂźhle paper 192 x 110 cm
Beat Zoderer Fold & Dip No. 3, 2014 Acrylic on vellum 61.5 x 48.5 cm
Susan Morris Motion Capture Drawing 1:1 Detail No. 4, 2012 Archival Inkjet on HahnemĂźhle paper 75 x 100 cm
Beat Zoderer Faltungen Lila, 2003 Coloured tracing paper and tracing paper mounted on museum board 28 x 21 cm
Beat Zoderer Faltungen GrĂźn, 2003 Coloured tracing paper and tracing paper mounted on museum board 28 x 21 cm
Beat Zoderer Faltenguss No.4/18, 2018 Plaster 46 x 40 cm
Beat Zoderer Faltenguss No.2/18, 2018 Plaster 46 x 40 cm
Jill Baroff Set of Five: Floating Lines Drawings, 2012 Graphite on Japanese gampi mounted on rag Each 28.5 x 25.5 cm
Beat Zoderer Fold & Dip No. 2, 2014 Acrylic on vellum 61.5 x 48.5 cm
Susan Morris Plumb Line Drawing n.8, 2009 Black pigment on paper 120 x 100 cm
TERMS GOVERNING THIS DOCUMENT * These works by Jill Baroff, Susan Morris and Beat Zodererare offered exclusively by Bartha Contemporary Ltd. The offer contained in this document is subject to change without prior notice. Offer intended as a guide only. All works available at the time of publication (February 27, 2018), availability may change at any time. Price quoted are excluding crating, shipping and installation. Price quoted are including UK VAT. The information contained in this document is intended exclusively for the recipient of the e-mail containing it and may contain privileged information. Copyright Jill Baroff, Susan Morris, Beat Zoderer & Bartha Contemporary Ltd.
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