Tim Davis Exhibition in Zurich
Tim Davis: Kings of Cyan
Exhibition on view: May 30, 2008 – October 18, 2008
galerie mitterrand + sanz
5, lessingstrasse
zürich
An exhibition of the work of Tim Davis, who’s book My Life in Politics was published by Aperture in 2006, is on view in Zurich, Switzerland. Like the book, this exhibition focuses on Davis’s exploration of political imagery. In this show of political portraiture, he focuses on the remnants of posters of politicians who hold a diverse range of beliefs. With time, the colors on the posters have faded until only the cyan, which typically has the most staying power, remains. Davis explains, “After a few months, these full-color images look like ghosts of themselves…I thought of [this blue] as the blue of disappearance…[The images] may be all surface, but their surfaces —faded, degraded, familiar, scraped away— have something to say.”
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