Kristan Horton - Portfolio

Tabarium UK, 2016

WORK is pleased to invite you to the view of Tabarium, the first UK exhibition of Berlin·based Canadian artist Kristan Horton.

In Tabarium, and other works, Horton uses a variety of media to elaborate on the ways in which movement is represented, and the ways in which 'things' are generated and regenerated.

Since the l990s, Horton's preoccupations have included the consumption of texts and mass media, the representation of simultaneous and rotated scenes, and the visualisation of power generation. Well known for his photographic series Dr.Strangelove Dr.Strangelove. 2003-2006, in which he recreated scenes of the Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb, 1964. Using items from his studio, Horton presents a range of sculptural forms that challenge and question the boundaries of the real, the approximate, and the virtual.

Ode on a Tab

O box shape! Fair weight! with beads

Of milky mend and typography overwrought,

With forest branches and the trodden weed;

Thou, mulch form, dost tease us out

of thought

As doth eternity; Foul Flap!

When snack waste defines a generation.

Tab shall remain, In midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

"Garbage is form, form garbage -that is all

Ye know on earth. and all ye need

to know."

Kristan Horton is the first comprehensive publication of the artist's practice to date. Includes the major works Oracle, Sligo Heads and Drawing of A History of World War One. Also published Art Gallery of York University, Dr.Strangelove Dr.Strangelove' by Kristan Horton.

WORK London, UK April-June, 2016 TABARIUM

*Ode on a Grecian Urn, By John Keats

Tabarium UK, 2016