CHRIS MARTIN – PARIS TAZ
2017-10-09Most of the recent works presented in the gallery were produced in the artist’s studio in the Catskill Mountains, three hours’ drive from New York City. Inspired by the lush slopes basking in fickle light, Chris Martin experienced there moments that complemented the “inner landscape” whose contours are sketched by his childhood memories of the region. In this environment, the artist experiences singular, profound and unconstrained moments that are one of numerous senses that may be given to the term Temporary Anonymous Zone, or TAZ, invented in 1991 and made popular by «ontological anarchist» Hakim Bey. As either an intimate, fleeting moment or large-scale public demonstration of which the mere mention might provoke its disappearance, a TAZ must escape the realm of res publica to succeed in extricating itself from the predeterminism decreed by contemporary society as a means of ensuring common acceptance of the temporary as a stroke of luck rather than an obstacle to happiness.
Opposite – Summer Heat, 2017
Exhibition runs through to November 25th, 2017
VNH Gallery
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
