SELECTED WORKS BY Thomas Zipp
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Thomas Zipp
Schwarze Ballons (1. down, 2. up, 3. S.K., 4a. tumb...tumb..., 4b.ABCE, 5. little U-light, 6. L.E.M., 7. O.E., 8. Elektrizitait)
2005
9 part installation
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Zipp’s work is infused with a romanticism of history: a wilful appropriation of styles and ideas, revisited, churned over, and mutated for contemporary experimentation. Resurrecting defunct concepts, and invigorating them with new usage, Zipp creates a parallel world envisioning a precarious future-fiction based on revisionist past. Schwartze Ballons is a nine-part installation comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Central to the piece is a large black structure. Ominous and strange, its ballooning form connotes a malevolent technology, stealth-like in its dead weight. The accompanying abstract drawings suggest scientific inventions that are equally playful and sinister. Painted portraits complete the scene with b-movie flair: dead zombie-like leaders with rivets for eyes add a subtext of evil, both spellbinding and humorous. |
Thomas Zipp
Der Schlaf IV (y-drops)
2006
Acrylic and oil on muslin/ mixed media /chandelier (3 Parts)
250 x 340cm / 32 x 27 cm / 166 x 155cm |
 


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Drawing from the subconscious terrain of dreams, Thomas Zipp’s Der Schlaf IV fabricates a surreal landscape. Using each element of his installation as a referential prop, Zipp weaves together a narrative flirting between reality and fantasy. The painting, depicting a vast rugged landscape, is dwarfed by a foreboding sexuality, and the framed and censored note ends in a trail of tiny punctures. Creating a sense of clinical detachment, Zipp’s installation is accompanied by a large chandelier. Made from fluorescent tubing, its design follows an illogical mathematical proportion, reinforcing the irrational within the pursuit of lucidity. |
Thomas Zipp
E-Licht
2006
Acrylic and oil on canvas/ mixed media (3 Parts)
250 x 340cm / 160 x 200 cm / 32 x 27cm |
 
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Through his installations, Thomas Zipp develops fantasy scenarios verging on the eccentric and theatrical.Garnering inspiration from art history, politics, philosophy, and popular culture, Zipp uses unlikely combinations of sources and genres to trigger a sense of familiarity within the absurd. In a composition of two canvases and a drawing, E-Licht is sparsely hung with museum authority. Balancing a large abstraction above a painting of a zeppelin, Zipp uses the ambient qualities of formalism to create fictional space, the utopian aspirations of modernism doubling as a set of subterranean misadventure. |
Thomas Zipp
A.B.:H.G.:B.16.
2005
Acrylic and oil on canvas / Mixed Media
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Thomas Zipp
World Kantzler Office - detail
2004
Mixed media
300 x 400 x 250cm |
 
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Thomas Zipp's BIOGRAPHY
1966
Born in Heppenheim
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Nuevo Tychonico, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
2004
Futurism now (Samoa), Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
The New Breed, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt
2003
Neroin, Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
The Nero Command, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York
2001
Exorcise the demons of perhaps, Maschenmode, Berlin
Bis dass der Tod uns meidet (with Manfred Peckel and Philipp Zaiser), Galerie Hilger, Wien
Atrium Vagari (mit Philipp Zaiser), Halle für Kunst, Essen
2000
od, Maschenmode, Berlin
Nobody loves an Albatros, Montparnasse, Berlin
1999
1. Diciembre 1999 - 29. Enero 2000 (with Thilo Heinzmann), Galerie Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid
1998
Seilers Schlafzimmer, Helmut Seiler, München
1997
N.N. (with Thilo Heinzmann), Galerie ak, Frankfurt/M.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Made in Berlin, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
Heimweh, Haunch of Venison, London
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Hands up, Baby, hands up, Oldenburger Kunstverein
actionbutton, hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (Kat.)
Painting on the roof, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (Kat.)
2002
TIERE, Elternhaus Thomas Palme, Immenstadt
FRIEDE, FREIHEIT, FREUDE, Maschenmode, Berlin
Große Kunstausstellung Sommer 2002 im Pazifik, PAZIFIK, Berlin
Schöne Aussicht, Herr Schweins, Galerie Otto Schweins, Köln
2001
The Ölwechsel, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
Bayrle, Jensen, Neumeier, Vatter, Zipp, Gesellschaft für Junge Kunst, Baden-Baden
Musterkarte, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
Montana Sacra (Circles 5), ZKM, Karlsruhe
2000
Deathrace 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Turning into a Loop, Gallery Gio’ Marconi, Mailand
The Bridges - Art On The Highway, Fuori Uso 2000, Pescara/Italien (Kat.)
Landscape, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Face The Black (Sammlung Zipp), Maschenmode, Berlin
1999
OTTO hat Besuch, OTTO, Kopenhagen
Jugendsünden, HHK Hamburg
Phantombüro, Kunstverein Frankfurt/M.
Video Bar, Galerie Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt/M.
Schlockweltall, Andersens Wohnung, Berlin
Stuttgart 17.5.56 - Salem (Wisconsin USA), 3.3.77, Portikus, Frankfurt/M. (Kat.)
Vivienne, Kunsthalle Lüneburg
1997
40 Kalorien, (with Abel Auer), Galerie Nomadenoase, Hamburg
Kunst- Christian Flamm trifft Birgit Mergerle und André Butzer in der Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeine, Berlin
Akademie Isotrop, Gunter Reskis Laden, Berlin
Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (Kat.)
1995
Filmcuts, Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin (Kat.)
Fenster für Elke Martin, Kunstverein Frankfurt/M
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