Solo Exhibition Liste Art Fair Basel 2021
Booth No.23Artist: Zhai Liang×Matt Siegle
Joint Stand
VIP Preview2021.09.20 10:00 - 20:00
Public Days2021.09.21 - 09.25 11:00 - 20:002021.09.26 11:00 - 16:00
VenueMesse Basel, Hall 1.1 Maulbeerstrasse/corner Riehenring 1134058 Basel
A Thousand Plateaus(Chengdu) and Good Weather (North Little Rock / Chicago) are pleased to present a joint presentation of new work by Zhai Liang (China) and Matt Siegle (United States) for Liste Art Fair Basel in 2021. The shared booth has been conceived of as a multiaxial presentation of sculpture (Siegle) and painting (Zhai) that draws from the socially-engaged elements of each artists’ practice.
Siegle and Zhai have a synchronistic concern with the indexical and quotidian qualities of reference. Both artists explore these qualities through a conceptual framework that reveals the disjointed and expansive potential of language and knowledge. Zhai’s new series of paintings "Grid 3" is composed through close observation and study of the multi-dimensional meanings of words. He transforms these words into visualized “hypertext” and extends them into a spatial narrative. One level of this method is a wall-bound matrix: a fundamental structure of contemporary words that are addressed and laid out in rows and columns (and classified based on the index of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia from 300 years ago) with each potential axis serving as a directional grid to create, categorize, and display Zhai’s perpetual production of paintings. These experiments dissect and reconstruct conventional linguistic relationships and design a formula that frees the combination of words within Eastern society from an interlocking stability—revealing the time-based notions of order that seem intrinsic to language and instead returning it to its unencumbered ancient roots.
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