Slow Learner
Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Slow Learner, curated by Andreas Leventis, which brings together a selection of artists who variously employ text, signs, symbols, and photographic images across a range of media to examine the gap between reading and comprehension.
Where outside the realms of art one might typically expect a graphic aesthetic to communicate a concise message or instruction 鈥� be it a road sign, a manual, or a restaurant menu 鈥� the works featured in this exhibition instead use defined and direct visual language to playfully subvert, withhold, or disavow meaning altogether.
As evinced in his all too brief twelve year artistic career, the wit and inventiveness of Marcel Broodthaers continues to inspire artists to this day. Moving fluently between installations, prints, and film, Broodthaers鈥檚 philosophical and linguistic puzzles encourage us to adopt new ways of reading and questioning what we see.
Information is simultaneously presented and denied to humorous effect in the work of John Baldessari. In his ongoing examination of semiotics, the artist has devised mischievous and cryptic juxtapositions of text and image, often presenting the viewer with non sequiturs which leave us interminably perplexed and beguiled.
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Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Slow Learner, curated by Andreas Leventis, which brings together a selection of artists who variously employ text, signs, symbols, and photographic images across a range of media to examine the gap between reading and comprehension.
Where outside the realms of art one might typically expect a graphic aesthetic to communicate a concise message or instruction 鈥� be it a road sign, a manual, or a restaurant menu 鈥� the works featured in this exhibition instead use defined and direct visual language to playfully subvert, withhold, or disavow meaning altogether.
As evinced in his all too brief twelve year artistic career, the wit and inventiveness of Marcel Broodthaers continues to inspire artists to this day. Moving fluently between installations, prints, and film, Broodthaers鈥檚 philosophical and linguistic puzzles encourage us to adopt new ways of reading and questioning what we see.
Information is simultaneously presented and denied to humorous effect in the work of John Baldessari. In his ongoing examination of semiotics, the artist has devised mischievous and cryptic juxtapositions of text and image, often presenting the viewer with non sequiturs which leave us interminably perplexed and beguiled.
