Chapter 6 :
Zebedee Armstrong
The gallery loaned an artwork of the american artist for the exhibition Chapter 6 : Zebedee Armstrong at Brussels.
The Agprognostic Temple is a nomadic art space in Brussels that was founded by Dome Wood and Sam Steverlynck. It aims to showcase art in unexpected ways and to probe the mysterious, the spiritual, the ungraspable in current artistic practice.
Curator : Joris Van de Moortel
Zebedee Armstrong never left Thomson, Georgia. In 1972, an angel came to him there and announced the end of the world. From then on he set out to calculate its hour: nearly 1,500 wooden box calendars, gridded in black, red and blue felt-tip, crowded with dates and scripture verses, which he called “taping with time.” Time, for him, is not endured: it is built. Each piece seems to wrest the date of Judgement from Scripture, and holds up a mirror to our own reckoning.
His work is held in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the American Folk Art Museum.