Artists

Zio Ziegler

Press release

Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present Reverse Paintings, Zio Ziegler’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 12 to October 31, 2024.

"Over the last decade, I’ve witnessed Zio Ziegler’s practice evolving from tightly rendered gouache paintings to gigantic murals, from bronze sculptures to florid maximalist panels. Continuously letting each in sequence give way to the next evolution of form, Ziegler's 'reverse paintings' feel like a logical continuation of this movement. They are made through indulgence and then carved into being with restraint as if building the temple to destroy the idol. And if art intends to mirror nature, the sacrifice could be a sign of bounty, especially knowing that nature favors simplicity through evolution. In that sense, the reduction, editing, and cutting of form accelerates the evolutionary journey of simplification. With shards of form echoing through layers of heavy oil paint and factions of labored moments sitting as an invisible foundation rather than a composition component, in 'Reverse Paintings', we see a giant tree cut at its core, revealing rings that resemble years."

- Saša Bogojev, writer and curator