Hans Accola: Logos Jigs
9 September - 9 October, 2004.
Opening Reception on 15 September 2004, 6-8pm
Frederieke Taylor gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture by Hans Accola entitled Logos Jigs. In his first solo show with the gallery, Accola presents a series of free-standing, playful and conflicted wooden constructions that he refers to as "logos jigs," a species of objects invented while struggling with sculpture. A recent interview between the artist and a cat sheds some light on the work presented in this exhibition:
 
Cat:	Meow…
	I noticed one of your sculptures 
	resembled a cat on it's back, it's 
	legs sticking straight up, like Fred 
	Sandback's cat.  
	Is it a dead cat or a sleeping cat?
Me:	I discovered it in that position and it 
	is still sitting there with its legs up.  
	I think it just does that when I'm
	looking.  It's generous in that way.
Cat:	Are you saying I should stay still 
	longer?
Me:	Well then you would be a sculpture.
Cat:	Meow………
	So these wood sculptures, 
	what are they for?
Me:	Warmth!
Cat: 	Is that why you refer to them as  
	"Logos Jigs?"
Me:	Yes.  It's Hericlitus' idea of logos 
	that has held my imagination.
	For Hericlitus the logos is the common 
	constituent in everything……
Cat:	 ………and contact with it causes 
	warming of the soul.  
Me:	I like to think of the "common 
	constituent" as a context for making 
	sculpture, because it suggests a place 	
	that doesn't function by dividing 
	matter and space, but rather reveals 
	their essential belonging together. 
	The logos isn't a frame or container, 
	it's pervasive activity.  
Cat:	Perhaps one day we'll just be the logos
Me:	I think we already are we just can't 
	hold on to it………
Cat:	…..so you make sculptures.
Me:	That's it! 
Cat: 	To do the logos tango!
Me:	Sounds good! ………
	..and what about you Cat? 
Cat:	I sleep for long periods of time and 
	then awaken to it suddenly, as if I 
	was caught with my fur down.  
	Also you have seen my own jigs?
	(Cat begins a little shuffle and 
	then exposes belly)
Me:	Ah yes! I learn much from your 
	acrobatic improvisations.
	(Cat jumps back to her feet)
 Cat:	Improvisation seems to be at the 
	heart of how you go about building?


  Me:	Absolutely! For me making sculpture 
	has always been a discipline to foster 
	listening.  As I play with the wood 
	I am simultaneously opening and 
	closing associations and memories.  
	My own limitations arise as phrases 
	to improvise with towards a desire for 
	transformation.  
	It's about the strange and you use what 
	defines your own familiarity to get out 
	of the familiar and into the strange.
Cat:	Perhaps then the logos is voice and 
	making sculpture a process of bringing 
	it out? 
Me:	Yeh!  I always felt that Hericlitus was 
	describing something more like voice in 
	his logos, rather than word, reason, or 
	God as it was later to be used.  
	It's why listening and paying attention 
	often result in startling consequences.
Cat:	Phrrh…..   "Listening not to me but to 
	the logos, it is wise to say all is one"
	(Me gets anxious to get to the studio 
	and heads toward the kitchen)
Me:	A compelling thought……
	..enough about warmth, 
	why don't you pull your fur back up and…
Cat:	……how about some of that ocean 
	fish formula?
Me: 	Is ocean fish formula conducive of 
	strangeness?	
	(Me opens a can of ocean fish formula 
	and serves a portion to Cat)
Cat:	Meow………
	familiar!


Hans Accola first exhibited at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in the fall of 2003 in Architecture Unplugged curated by Max Henry. He has had several solo shows in galleries in New York City and Boston, and was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Bush Foundation Fellowship, and the Jerome Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship. He currently lives and works in New York City.

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