ARTPROJX SPACE
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI
5-30 June
film, sculpture, photography and text
PREVIEW WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 6-8pm
Artprojx Space is proud to present ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI’s first London solo show, a witty dialogue with mortality and belief.
Known for their sumptuously beautiful and skillfully choreographed video
works, ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI present a selection of recent films alongside
new sculpture, text and photography.
The show will include, in its first exhibition, the text work Tyndale Box (2004-2008).
A four and a half year project, completed whilst research fellows at Durham University, Tyndale
Box is a translation of the entire Old and New testaments of the King James
version of the bible into SMS text.
For their piece The Divine Comedy Z+Z were taught the dark art of carbonization
by a Yorkshire woodman, transforming a human head to pure carbon, save for the
enamel of the teeth and gold fillings. To further their alchemic apprenticeship
they sought out the largest kiln in Europe, to produce The Fundamental Flaw, a
6 ft sculpture out of cast glass.
The stuff of life and death is both their subject and their material, with sculpture
made from hand-spun golden human hair, or bone. In Away from the Flock (2008) we
peer into a Victorian bell jar and a still-born goat skull smiles back with a
wry cheeky grin, its mouth bejeweled with a 22ct gold capped tooth.
Amongst the selection of films on show are The Dance (2006) featuring
a 7-day old baby boy jigging in time to Albéniz’ “Asturias” and Mother (2008)
made with their recently deceased grandmother. Also featured are previously unseen
works made whilst ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI were artists in residence at Durham Cathedral,
when they sealed and filled their 12th Century studio with live canaries and
gold finches for the year, producing a series of seductive and deftly crafted
chiaroscuro video paintings, influenced by the works of Francisco De Zurburan.
Weds 18 June 6.30-8.30pm
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI In conversation
with JJ Charlesworth and Jennifer Thatcher
The artists will be in conversation with JJ Charlesworth (critic/ Reviews Editor
Art Review) and Jennifer Thatcher (curator/ Director of Talks, ICA). Meet the
artists, who will be discussing the art of text messaging, death and carbonization.
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI graduated with 1st class honours from the department of Drawing
and Painting at Edinburgh and Duncan of Jordanstone Colleges of Art in 1998 and
have collaborated as artists since 2000. Based in London, they have exhibited
widely at museums and galleries throughout Europe/ UK and the US, including Tate
Britain, The Whitechapel, Herzliya Museum, Israel and Museum Haus Lange, Germany.
In 2005-2006 they were recipients of the Durham Cathedral Artists residency award.
Their work has been sold at auction in Sotheby’s Bond Street, Chicago,
and Tel Aviv, most recently in the "Defining the Contemporary" auction
for the Whitechapel Gallery, London.