Branding The World

Toby Ziegler was born on 1972. Toby Zieglerâ??s paintings and sculptures reflect a personal negotiation with the synthetic and the exotic. Fabricating his images on a computer, traditional motifs such as landscapes, still-life, and cultural artefacts are removed from the familiarity of popular consciousness and reconfigured as templates of abstracted information. Translated into a purist language of repetitive geometric patterns, the romantic associations Zieglerâ??s subjects are recomposed as sublime fields, incorporating references to virtual reality, Islamic mosaics, and 60s trippy pop.

In his paintings, Ziegler carefully reproduces these digitized models entirely by hand; each painstakingly rendered shape reveals tell-tale traces of the artistâ??s intervention, marking its space as an individual point of contemplation. Corrupting the consummate perfection of mechanical aesthetics with the intimacy of human fallibility, Ziegler develops a unique position to engage with the act of painting in the contemporary world.

Divorcing his subjects from the weight of their historical context, Zieglerâ??s fragmented motifs offer virgin terrains for painterly degeneration. In Designated for Leisure, this contradiction between the value of technological precision and its degradation through imperfect translation are reinforced through the paintingâ??s overwhelming scale and holograph-like surface. Composed on reflective industrial fabric, the paintingâ??s surface shifts and transforms when viewed from different angles, revealing the landscape within as a chimera of light and perspective.

In the Grand Cause, Zieglerâ??s abstracted sunset subverts the rigidity of graphic design with the spontaneity of painterly expression. Vying between attenuate detail and intuitive mark-making, the perfunctory qualities of his repetitive patterning evolve as personalized statements of authenticity and affectation. Defiling the gold leaf surface with materiality of paint, Ziegler capitalizes on the rich and luxurious quality of his ground to draw connotations to beauty and the grotesque.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006

â?¢ Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark – group show curated by Barry Schwabsky

â?¢ Archipenture: painters build architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London

â?¢ Archipenture: artists build architecture, Le Plateau -FRAC d’Ile de France, Paris

2005

â?¢ The Future Lasts a Long Time; Le Consortium; Dijon

â?¢ Ordering the Ordinary; Timothy Taylor Gallery; London

â?¢ Supernova; Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Of Contemporary Art Poland

â?¢ Traveling to: Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, Centre Of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, City Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

â?¢ Enter Desire; Solo show at Chisenhale Gallery

2004

â?¢ Kingdom; The Market; Glasgow

â?¢ Contrapop; Vamiali’s, Athens

â?¢ Expander; Royal Academy of Arts, London

â?¢ John Moores 23; The Walker, Liverpool

â?¢ The Future Lasts a Long Time; Tal Esther Gallery,

â?¢ Tel Aviv

â?¢ Collection 1 (curated by Stephen Hepworth); Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence

2003

â?¢ Art Kliasma 2003; Moscow

â?¢ EAST international; Norwich Gallery

â?¢ Civilia; Bluecoat gallery, Liverpool

â?¢ Creek; Cell project space, London

2002

â?¢ Project with Christopher Landoni and Oliver Michaels; King of Norway’s house, Piccadilly, London

â?¢ Hypnotising Chickens; One in the Other, London

2001

â?¢ Sages Scientists and Madmen; One in the Other, London

Conclusions:

Toby Zieglerâ??s paintings and sculptures reflect a personal negotiation with the synthetic and the exotic. Fabricating his images on a computer, traditional motifs such as landscapes, still-life, and cultural artefacts are removed from the familiarity of popular consciousness and reconfigured as templates of abstracted information. Translated into a purist language of repetitive geometric patterns, the romantic associations Zieglerâ??s subjects are recomposed as sublime fields, incorporating references to virtual reality, Islamic mosaics, and 60s trippy pop.

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