Victor Man
06 Sep - 08 Oct 2011
VICTOR MAN
Lazarus Protocol
6 September - 8 October 2011
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Lazarus Protocol, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Victor Man.
The found images and objects within Man’s paintings and sculptural installations do not suggest a precise history or provenience, but instead invoke a sense of an illusive, yet recent past. Man creates new contexts and arrangements of disparate components that disrupt any linear narrative. The reoccurrence of shadowy, reflective and transitory glimpses in the works of Lazarus Protocol serves to create mysticism through omission, “pointing out how ‘loss’ may give rise to an awareness of the connectedness of all things”.
The works have been created by Man as part of the Giuseppe Sacchi Project, and the exhibition is accompanied by the launch of the book If Mind Were All There Was, co-published with Kaleidoscope, Italy. The conceptual content of the publication stems from Man’s 2009 Exhibition, If Mind Were All There Was, at the Hayward Gallery. The show’s lynchpin was a reference to a piece of graffiti originally found on the fresco The Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca in San Francessco Church, Arezzo Italy, that simply reads ‘Giuseppe Sacchi’.
Research by Man into this name lead to a Giuseppe Sacchi, a seventeen century painter about whom almost nothing is known, but upon whom Man has invited the publications contributors to devise histories, to reconsider the parameters, limits and possibilities of art writing; “How can we conceive art history when no evidence about the artist and if his or her art exists?”
Victor Man (b. 1974) lives and works in Berlin and Cluj, Romania. Recent exhibitions include; The Dust of Others, Galleria Zero, Milano (2010) If Mind Were All There Was, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London/Gladstone Gallery, New York/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam/Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, (2009) and Black Hearts Always Bleed Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2008) and in the Romanian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 52 in 2007.
Lazarus Protocol
6 September - 8 October 2011
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Lazarus Protocol, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Victor Man.
The found images and objects within Man’s paintings and sculptural installations do not suggest a precise history or provenience, but instead invoke a sense of an illusive, yet recent past. Man creates new contexts and arrangements of disparate components that disrupt any linear narrative. The reoccurrence of shadowy, reflective and transitory glimpses in the works of Lazarus Protocol serves to create mysticism through omission, “pointing out how ‘loss’ may give rise to an awareness of the connectedness of all things”.
The works have been created by Man as part of the Giuseppe Sacchi Project, and the exhibition is accompanied by the launch of the book If Mind Were All There Was, co-published with Kaleidoscope, Italy. The conceptual content of the publication stems from Man’s 2009 Exhibition, If Mind Were All There Was, at the Hayward Gallery. The show’s lynchpin was a reference to a piece of graffiti originally found on the fresco The Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca in San Francessco Church, Arezzo Italy, that simply reads ‘Giuseppe Sacchi’.
Research by Man into this name lead to a Giuseppe Sacchi, a seventeen century painter about whom almost nothing is known, but upon whom Man has invited the publications contributors to devise histories, to reconsider the parameters, limits and possibilities of art writing; “How can we conceive art history when no evidence about the artist and if his or her art exists?”
Victor Man (b. 1974) lives and works in Berlin and Cluj, Romania. Recent exhibitions include; The Dust of Others, Galleria Zero, Milano (2010) If Mind Were All There Was, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London/Gladstone Gallery, New York/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam/Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, (2009) and Black Hearts Always Bleed Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2008) and in the Romanian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 52 in 2007.