 Garlands, 2004 Film still T. J. Wilcox Garlands "Garlands" is T. J. Wilcox's new group of 16 short, silent films installed on six 16 mm projectors. Each film relates an everyday phenomenon or anecdotal event that is told in the artist's signature means of reductive poetic narrative using original footage, still photographs, animation and one-line subtitles. The projectors' collective hum provides the only sound for the exhibition. Wilcox, an exquisite storyteller, hones in on remarkable details and daws something uncanny out of these known or observed tales, the impact of which might otherwise be overlooked. The films, made in 2004 and not seen before this show, fall into various themes; animals, including a tale of swans that communicate the end of the world; "Place Vendome", including the life and death of its famous residents, such as Chopin, Comtessse Castiglioni, Sisi, Empress of Austria. For the past ten years, T. J. Wilcox has exhibited widely in America and Europe. Solo exhibitions include ICA and Sadie Coles, HQ, London; Berkley Art Museum, CA; and Kunsthaus, Glarus, Switzerland; Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York; and Gallery Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. Selected group exhibitions include the 1997 and 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Greater New York, PS1, New York; The Americans: New Art, Barbican Art Centre, London; Dialogues, Walker Art Center, MN; and XLVII Venice Biennale, Italy. The Tate screened T. J. Wilcox's films in the summer of 2004 and the Museum of Modern Art will screen T. J. Wilcox's films in April of 2005. A monograph on T. J. Wilcox will be published in the Spring of 2005. Exhibition: 15 January - 19 February 2005 Metro Pictures 519 West 24th Street USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 206-7100 Fax +1 212 337-0070 Email gallery@metropicturesgallery.com www.metropicturesgallery.com |
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