Cristin
Tierney Gallery NEW YORK | USA
JULY 13,
2017-AUGUST 18, 2017
Cristin
Tierney Gallery is pleased to present Tim Youd: Ecstatic Reading, opening
Thursday, July 13th and continuing through Friday, August 18th, with an opening
reception on July 13th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This is Youd’s first solo
exhibition in New York City, and the artist will be performing at the opening.
For his New
York debut, Youd will continue his 100 Novels project by retyping Patricia
Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley at the Cristin Tierney Gallery (performance
dates and times are listed below). The exhibition will also feature a selection
of drawings and works on paper.
A
performance and visual artist, Youd is presently retyping 100 novels over a
ten-year period while concurrently compiling a body of related paintings,
drawings, and sculptures. During each of his performances, Youd retypes novels
on the same make and model typewriter the author used, in a location charged
with literary significance specific to the novel. This summer, Youd is retyping
four novels in Italy in an “Italian cycle,” which will culminate in his
retyping of The Talented Mr. Ripley in New York. This performance will pay
tribute to Highsmith’s protagonist Tom Ripley, who escapes his troubles in New
York by sailing on an ocean liner to Venice.
Each book
is typed on a single sheet of paper, which is laid on top of a second sheet and
run repeatedly through the typewriter. Upon completion, the two sheets are separated
and mounted side-by-side as a diptych. They serve as a relic of the
performance, containing all of the artist’s keystrokes within the rectangular
form of two pages of an open book.
Youd
describes the act of reading as devotional, requiring such total involvement as
to make him lose awareness of time, space, and surroundings. Ecstatic Reading
derives its name from this altered state of consciousness, and the
transcendence experienced by Youd in his performances as he re-types entire
novels from beginning to end.
Diptychs
from past performances will be on view in the gallery, and will include Philip
K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, John Rechy’s City of Night, and Flannery O’Connor’s
The Violent Bear It Away, among others. Also on view will be a selection of
typewriter drawings. Illustrated by 100 Olivetti Lettera 32s with Tally, the
drawings are composed of one hundred accumulated and superimposed outlines of
the same model typewriter, with a small index at the bottom logging how many
times and on which days Youd drew the image.
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