James Rigler : The Lost World

23 Jun-30 Jul 2011

Overview

James Rigler’s artefacts have a strange familiarity; they resemble things we know we’ve seen before, but find it hard to pinpoint where. Exaggerated and emphatic, each piece is a synthesis of historical forms and cultural ideas that carry with them a multiplicity of associations. His palette of colours is curiously analogous to faded utopian dreams. Indeed Rigler’s epic and puzzling scenarios are reminders of just how much our perception of normality in the material world depends on learned rules of classification.