Press release:

Amos Eno Gallery presents the artwork of Steven Travis in the exhibition "Hieroglyphic Collages" from May 27 to June 21, 2008. Four large computer graphic works depicting hieroglyphs are generously textured with collages of the artist's curious writing system and illustration.

Since childhood, Steven has been strongly attracted to manuscripts. The subject of this exhibit introduces his invented hieroglyphic language called Tapissary, to which he has devoted 30 years. On each wall of the gallery, one print of a hieroglyph hangs like a greatly oversized page. Similar to the embellished initials of a medieval parchment, Steven enjoys investing his symbols with detailed flourishes. He liberally sews the seeds of image and text within the silhouette of each of the four hieroglyphs until an energetic 'language-scape' is achieved. As we walk by the human scaled 'letters' in this fanciful version of manuscript, we are faced with an assortment of perspectives asking us to zoom in and debark. Each hieroglyph is geographically situated in the artist's mind. These are destinations, however improbable in the real world, and reveal a sort of codex of Steven's invention with language and art. The architectural passages are photographs of the artist's miniature villages that he constructed in clay, or drew on paper. The exclusively black and white body of work reminds us that the exhibit centers on language: the black and white of the printed page. He invites the viewer to travel from island to island in his proposed geography, as well as from word to word.

Steven Travis has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. His shows explore the theme of an invented culture.

AMOS ENO GALLERY
530 West 25th street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10001
212 226-5342

Each of the four pictures contains one hieroglyph, or a hieroglyphic cluster. They read:

1)     Dear

2)     Diary

3)     You-and-I

4)     Speak-the-same-Language.

Mon expo entitrée “Collages en Hiéroglyphes” aura lieu à la galerie Amos Eno dans la ville de New York. J’affiche des images pour cette exposition au fur et à mesure dès leur achèvement.

Contre chacqu’une des quatre parois de la galerie, je vais faire pendre mes énormes tableaux d’hiéroglyphes sur papier photographique. Cette langue est celle que je crée, le Tapissary. La glyphe en haut représente le mot “cher” dans le sens de salutation d’une lettre. Si vous avez déjà visité les pages de mon journal sur ce site, peut-être reconnaîtriez-vous quelques images que j’en ai tirées dans ce nouveau contexte. Le cadre mesure un peu moins d’un mètre par deux mètres.

Les tableaux sont trop larges pour être reproduits dans leur taille réelle, donc vous pouvez cliquer sur les chiffres rouges qui vous emmeneront aux plusieurs détails.

Amos Eno Gallery
530 West 25th street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10001
212 226-5342

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私の”ヒエログリフの コラージュ”と言う展覧会がニュヨーク市 の Amos Eno 画廊で見えます。このページで新しい絵を掲示します。

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私の考案したタピセリと言うヒエログリフの言語で、巨大な字でコラージュを作った。上のヒエログリフの字は手紙の挨拶と言ういみです。約１x２メートルの大きさです。

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細部をみに、赤い数学をクリックして下さい。

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