Los Angeles God (Forage, Fair Trade, $#@*)2014
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'Beneath her long hair, which covered her face, I thought I recognised Ammonaria', 1888, lithograph and Body by Body 'Wheatpasta'd frieze', 2014, wheat paste, posters
Education Pig
Education Pig
Kimchi Carbonara (Alien Invasion)2014
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'Anthony: What Is the Point of All This? The Devil: There Is No Point!', 1896, lithograph
Education Pig
Los Angeles God (Forage, Fair Trade, @#@*)2014
High density polyethylene, chrome-plated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Los Angeles God (Forage, Fair Trade, @#@*)
Raw (Melissa Kill Cameron)2014
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Raw (Melissa Kill Cameron)
Zoonosis (Concrete Jungle)2014
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Zoonosis (Concrete Jungle)
Doghouse II2014
Plexiglass
39.25 x 33 x 39 in / 99.7 x 83.85 x 99.05 cm
Romance Cafe (Food Fetish)2014
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Romance Cafe (Food Fetish)
Doghouse III2014
Powder-coated steel, corrugated metal
52 x 37.5 x 37 in / 132.05 x 95.25 x 94 cm
Education Pig
South Beach Diet & Trident Milkshakes2014
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
South Beach Diet & Trident Milkshakes
Education Pig2014
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophets are...', 1899, lithograph
Psycho Tango Gum Happy Life Sun Live Electricity Bubble2014
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Psycho Tango Gum Happy Life Sun Live Electricity Bubble
Doghouse I2014
Digital print on NuAlum
38 x 35.5 x 39 in / 96.55 x 90.2 x 99.05 cm
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophets are...', 1899, lithograph
Doghouse I2014
Digital print on NuAlum
38 x 35.5 x 39 in / 96.55 x 90.2 x 99.05 cm
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophets are...', 1899, lithograph
Doghouse I2014
Digital print on NuAlum
38 x 35.5 x 39 in / 96.55 x 90.2 x 99.05 cm
Installation view with Odilon Redon, 'And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophets are...', 1899, lithograph
Kimchi Carbonara (Alien Invasion)2014
High density polyethylene, acrylic, spray paint, chrome-plated steel, aluminum frame
64 x 48 x 4.5 in / 162.55 x 121.95 x 11.45 cm
Kimchi Carbonara (Alien Invasion)
Odilon Redon ‘And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back close sealed with seven seals’
BODY BY BODY & ODILON REDON Education Pig
Château Shatto opens in downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 2014. The gallery commences its program with an exhibition of new work by Body by Body and a presentation of Odilon Redon’s The Temptation of St Anthony and The Apocalypse of Saint John.
Body by Body’s exhibitions read like fictive accounts. They pull upon styles, push plot devices and draw (or co-opt) characters to populate these zones of imagination. For the principal exhibition at Château Shatto, Body by Body will produce Education Pig, an exhibition that speaks to the intemperate refinement of taste. This education of sensibilities is commonly pursued by accompanying surfeit consumption with the study of other people’s opinions; or, pairing the digestion of one’s individual aesthetic experience with the voices of influential critics. Body by Body’s exhibitions are defined by the totalising experience they invite, though they are composed of several varied forms. Education Pig takes form in printed and transparent sculptures, wall-mounted reliefs, graphic prints and an illustrated novel.
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French printmaker, painter and draughtsman, whose life’s work offers one of the definitive visions of Symbolism. Joining Body by Body’s exhibition will be Redon’s lithographic illustrations of The Apocalypse of Saint John and of Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of St Anthony. To re-stage The Temptation of St Anthony, Redon selects single lines to illustrate from Flaubert’s vast, supple, sensory account of the story of St Anthony’s night spent in the Egyptian desert, a fictive event that receives recurring accounts in art and literature. Redon attaches phantasmagorical illustrations to short abbreviations of Flaubert’s text, interpreting the language from a position where images evolve not from what is observed, but what is felt. The first exhibition presented by Château Shatto tenders an arc between Body by Body and Odilon Redon, who are not contemporary with one another but share a perceptible spirit in their work.
Both Body by Body and Redon work through graphic illustration and use the wanderings of the mind as a productive method, where there is space granted to peaks of the imagination. As such, this exhibition is tangled in several fictions and involves narrative leaps, like Body by Body’s collaborations with renowned food critics on a graphic novel to accompany the exhibition. And while Redon’s contribution to art is now canonical, it was in J.K. Huysmans novel À rebours that his notoriety was first established. The central character of À rebours collects Odilon Redon’s work and is devoted to the ideals of Symbolist artists and poets, as they encourage him to sink further into his internalised aesthetics.
The exhibition runs until September 6. Château Shatto is open Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm, with appointments outside gallery hours welcome. Further inquiries may be directed towards gallery@chateaushatto.com.
Education Pig