Opening
Stewart Ziff was born
in
Ziff’s work
has matured from painting, and his imagery has progressively infused with data
collected from satellites and other instruments of sensing and surveillance,
asserting the relationship between the observer and the observed. The early
works and installations included rotating cylinders of continuous imagery,
photographic panoramas and time lapse movies projected onto spherical walls or
forms.
He perfectly interwines the different disciplines he has pursued throughout his work, and uses scientific data to map poetically the world around us, playing with forms and rythms such as circles, loops, cycles, spheres…
An aspect of my work rests in the
realm of perception and the phenomenological spaces of vision and visuality – the suspended crystal ball (1997) is a pure spherical
lens that refracts the world in much the same way the eyes work…
Stewart Ziff
is building his own tools such as software, video projectors, mobile robotic
cameras, simultaneously complex and humble constructions, a network avoiding
anything spectacular or perfect related to the high-tech demonstration. Time,
process, observing and recording are the recurrent elements in Ziff’s work,
creating an autonomous apparatus.
For this
third exhibition at Unlimited Contemporary Art, the artist is renewing the problem of painting, and, through puzzle,
riddle and narrative about sight, he will present new works that explore
matters such as memory, space and history in the act of seeing with one’s own
eyes:
Durer’s Eyes (oil on plexiglas, wood), Heartsfield
International, 2002
(video projection), Rubber Neck, 2002 (video installation).
Recent Exhibitions
2000 Ranger
5, Unlimited Contemporary Art,
Personal
Cinema, ArtBox,
1999 Video
Show,
PANOPTICON
(Ranger 4), New
1997 Ranger
2, Unlimited Contemporary Art,
Ranger 1, Lichthaus, Bremen, Germany.
And
the ship is still not in sight,
Harbor Docks,
Kriezi 1
GR – 10553 Athens
T&f 00 30 210 33 14 375
www.unlimitedcontemporary.com