Cosmic
Black & The Silver Lining
+4Arthouse is proud to present Cosmic Black & The
Silver Lining, an
exhibition of new works on paper, paintings, and a book by the
collaborative duo The Secret Third. This is The Secret Third's first
exhibition at +4 and +4's inaugural exhibition.
Cosmic
Black & The Silver Lining
consists
of two primary elements, each of which has two parts.
One
aspect are the black and white graphic works (paintings and
drawings), taking their cues from the epic, from landscape, natural
forces, and spiritual diagrams (Sri yantras, tetramorphs / seraphim.
As well as compositions from classic masterpieces, and organic
patterns, as in not precisely measured). The angels / tetramorphs
have an equal vertical and horizontal axis; assembled/folded they
form an open-topped cube. There are black angels as opposed to the
neuter white variety.
The
paintings (some still wet), include materials like glitter (glitter,
like stars, glitter for girls), silver, salt, and spraypaint. Created
on black paper they refer to mountains, cascading waterfalls,
dripping fluids, milk & mercury. In their appearance and process
are rain, storms, lightning, the cosmic and the interstellar, deep
space and the infinite.
The
second aspect is a book (available as a PDF) that opens with titles
that are readable as very concentrated poems, or one longform piece.
The book then continues through more than three-dozen technicolor
collages, making references and inferences in many directions. The
book is a cosmogenesis blossoming forth from the pregnant void of the
other works in the exhibition. The book reads like a shredding guitar
solo about art as a force of nature, and technology as another
kingdom of life in a mythic world where wild(er)ness and the sublime
coalesce in amplified sincerity.
Post-rock informs the show in thematics and in aesthetic contrast as the narrative arc oscillates between the majestically dark and technicolor hope. There are monolithic, black, forbidding features, then there is a colorful, concentrated, bright book. The narrative of: from dark to light, from tenebrous and austere, to bright, complex & intimate. It is a hopeful narrative.
The
show was created by The Secret Third, a mysterious and longstanding
collaboration between Noah Travis Phillips and Jennifer Lord.
The
Silver Lining demos book
http://bit.ly/20OCB6t
(PDF)