THE TAGLI × Fred Levine present THE GRAVITY OF A DREAM - a new solo exhibition by Zach Zono.
Opening: Saturday 17 January, 2pm
FRED LEVINE, The Old Silk Barn, Quaperlake Street, Bruton, BA10 0HB, UK
"In The Gravity of a Dream, Zono negotiates this tension at a new scale, and gives voice to the practice that anchored his dreams. Through a repertoire of gestures barely guided or sharply decisive, loose yet restrained, he evokes both the openness of his South African childhood and the dense tempo of London life. “I think the paintings are me moving through those spaces and trying to find a balance between them.”
Painting, for Zono, is a choreography of materials, body, instinct, memory, and time. Stretching, scraping, turning the canvas, stepping into and away from the surface becomes almost performative; the pulse of making is as vital as the image itself. His poetic titles reflect this sensibility. Drawing on the cadence of language he hears when returning home (see you soon soon, now now) each title acts as a key, attuning the viewer to repetition, rhythm, and accumulated meaning...
Colour and form gather and towards the edges of the canvas, suggesting landscapes or portals into the wide-open vistas and lucid tones of sub-Saharan Africa, somehow filtered through the grit and clash of city lights. The result is a body of work that offers access points rather than closure: moments where energy condenses and releases, like a pulse or a beating heart."
