Tim Folland
Swill Hole featuring the Paintor
 From the dregs of existence, the sty of the solar system, comes Swill Hole
a new work by artist and director Tim Folland which single handedly
degenerates the last 100 years of hygiene. Swill Hole, featuring the
Paintor, a scrappy and resourceful practitioner of the lost and wayward
arts, will be installed and filmed in the Hampden Incubator Project Space
during the month of November.
The packrat set for Swill Hole is a combination of Parisian artist hovel,
Frankenstein-like lavatory, nomad's shanty and shaman's cave. The Paintor,
armed with a make shift wine box camel pack of his own design, will
primarily be working on two homemade, junk yard-dog experiments: the recipe
for a perfect cup of coffee and a magical wine making apparatus, both of
which will fuel a roller coaster of work throughout the month.
Also on view will be Folland's Wall Drawing with a Crowbar video, a work
that precedes Swill Hole and was filmed at SPACE Gallery Portland, ME in
February 2006. This work also features the Paintor and continues in the long
tradition of wall drawings: from Lascaux to the modern day Graffiti
movement. This site-specific work used the gallery's sheet rocked walls as
the Paintor's medium, thus transforming it into an object which bridges the
gap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional art forms.
The set for Wall Drawing with a Crowbar is a site of demolition and
creation, with the optimism of big-money lotto tickets strewn about, plaster
dust, unfinished checker games and the remains of last nights party. The
video examines the nature of art makin and intertwines it with themes of
risk, devotion, hardship, and creativity.When:
Thursday, November 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2006
Free and open to the public
Educational Events:
Tim Folland Opening Reception
Hampden and Central Galleries
Thursday, November 2, 2006 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public - |
