Short Bio
Zoro Feigl is an artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium. He graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2007 and is working as an artist ever since.
In his work, Zoro Feigl explores ways of manifesting energy visibly. You see floating, spinning, undulation, bouncing, spraying. All Feigl's works could essentially be described as fountains: in each piece, he shows the arc of the driving energy and its ultimate defeat by gravity. The precarious balance between the power that drives his installations and the pressure Feigl's subjects them to is at the core of his young oeuvre. In all his work, it is this element that fosters an astonishingly serious empathy with the machines that provide the power. I feel that the representation of physical laws in Feigl's artworks is so touching precisely because it allows us to experience - very directly - that we can have faith in the material world: it always behaves the same in similar circumstances. The boundary between chaos and recognisable patterns in undulating rope or bouncing balls stretches the limits of our perception and our capacity to comprehend. His installations work on an architectural level not only by scale but also make the spectator physically feel the powers at work.
Apart from his own practice Zoro Feigl is also part of cultural platform deServiceGarage in Amsterdam and is starting a new space TARP in Antwerp. Zoro is currently following the program of the HISK in Ghent.
www.zorofeigl.nl
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