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Nashville Scene August 18, 2005 Everything Has Its Price The pervasive marketplace provides common ground for much of Zeitgeist's summer show By David Maddox Eponymous Through Sept. 3 at Zeitgeist Gallery At first glance, the commercial impulse seems distant from the work of Fiona Kinsella. She has created the most beautiful objects in the show, emu eggs covered with lace and doilies, placed on a bed of rabbit fur inside velvet-lined reliquary boxes. Most of the eggs have small boxes made of metal filigree inserted into their centers, which hold material like a dried umbilical cord or a few horse hairs, possibly real personal relics. The most discordant element in these heterogeneous assemblages is that the egg, its lace or doily covering, and in some cases the filigree box are tightly wrapped in plastic, as if they had been packaged for transport and sale. Each is a unique and exquisite object presented for veneration, but the packaging thrusts it into the commercial realm, suggesting that the aura surrounding such an object is still something manufactured and sold. Other artists in the show also touch on the commercial world in some way. Mark Bynon makes minimalist sculptures with a slick, quasi-metallic surface covering a wood base, and in discussing their creation, he refers to "manufacturing" as if he were making products for mass markets. John Donovan's ceramic sculptures array small figures that look like nostalgic toy soldiers and athletes; the miniatures appear in multiples, a reference to mass production. Derek Schartung grabs images from the media and mixes them with precise, symmetrical, interlocking patterns that could come from a mandala or a visionary's cosmological map. He also contributed the show's only video art, generated by recombining and distorting footage lifted from broadcast and cable news shows. Read the full article Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee USA Eponymous - group invitational curated by Lain York and Janice Zeitlin Artists: Mark Bynon, Will Clendening, John Donovan, Lauren Gibbes, Mary Hackett, Sisavanh Phouthavong-Houghton, Fiona Kinsella, Pamela Pecchio, Angela Messina, Derek Schartung |
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