South London Gallery
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Thomas Zipp
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16 Nov 2007 – 13 Jan 2008
Tuesdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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Tube: Elephant & Castle, Oval
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The title of German installation artist Thomas Zipp's Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair directly references Black Sabbath's psychedelic masterwork of the same name, and sets the tone for his atmospheric installation about "the weirdness of mankind". Zipp uses drawing, figurative painting and sculpture to create a labyrinth of investigations into defining political, historical and philosophical notions that have now been disproved (such as cosmology and nuclear fission). The works wend their way around a chapel that has been built at the center of the gallery. Dark, Teutonic humor and precision linework underscore the Berliner's first major show in the UK.
