Thomas Zipp: Figure-Ground Specification in Terms of Structural Information. The Rivalry between Different Pattern Codings
In thematic exhibitions Thomas Zipp (born in Heppenheim, 1966) conceptualizes a constellation of correlative symbols and representative histories. This topology of fact and fiction is a narrative indexing of the mind, cognition, and the unquantifiable recesses of the brain. Within comprehensive mixed-media installations, Zipp brings to the fore a forensic analysis of canonized knowledge with a thought provoking acuity of consciousness.
Through the lens of myth he symbolically views, maps, questions, and transgresses standardized historical fact. Paintings, drawings, graphics, collage, and three-dimensional works relate to social political structures promulgated by the military industrial complex, art history, science, religion, and ultimately philosophy. Zipp discursively assembles a revisionism of accepted doctrine and dares conjure their dark forces.
Seminal figures of history in his portraits have for better or worse contributed to the structure of society and our reading of it. Some have shaped policy and set far-flung agendas that constructed the paradigmatic viewpoint of the world.
