Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Vienna City Wall, 2022, dimensions variable
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Vienna City Wall, 2022, mosaic, marble, granite, glass, grout, dimensions variable
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Vienna City Wall, 2022, dimensions variable
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Vienna City Wall, 2022 (detail)
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Vienna City Wall, 2022 (detail)
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Reverse Arch & Amphora, 2022, architectural modification, drywall, wood, 241 x 254 x 76
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Reverse Arch & Amphora, 2022 (detail)
Rindon Johnson, Mountain Whale (Not even the birds are happy to see me) Harbor, I’m round, I’m round in one piece, doing a bottom, I don’t know if it hurt, the white of an engine, a wall of rushing water, your ankles on my cheek bones, cake in the day, and then at the half moon, moby doll, 2022, leather, bleach, vinyl paint, crayon, and nails, 122 x 226 cm
Rindon Johnson, Mountain Whale (Not even the birds are happy to see me) Harbor, I’m round, I’m round in one piece, doing a bottom, I don’t know if it hurt, the white of an engine, a wall of rushing water, your ankles on my cheek bones, cake in the day, and then at the half moon, moby doll, 2022, leather, bleach, vinyl paint, crayon, and nails, 122 x 226 cm
Rindon Johnson, Mountain Whale (Not even the birds are happy to see me) Harbor, I’m round, I’m round in one piece, doing a bottom, I don’t know if it hurt, the white of an engine, a wall of rushing water, your ankles on my cheek bones, cake in the day, and then at the half moon, moby doll, 2022 (detail)
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Torch with Cold Blue Flame 1, 2022, glass, modified hardware, 76,2 x 33 x 3,8 cm
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Torch with Cold Blue Flame 3, 2022, glass, modified hardware, 66 x 40,6 x 3,8 cm
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Open the Gates! Span the Mouth!, exhibition view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, 2022
Rindon Johnson, I found a really nice place to sit but you weren’t there, 2022, ceramic and glaze, 14 x 6,2 x 7 cm
Rindon Johnson, At night expect a slight chance of rain and snow with temps in the same range, 2022, ceramic and glaze, 10,5 x 6 x 15 cm
Rindon Johnson, Salamanders, in compassion, run at a far more measured pace, 2022, ceramic and glaze, 14,5 x 5 x 10,5 cm
Vienna’s old city wall ran near An der Hülben, and there’s only traces and broken sections left. They piled mud and stones, one on top of another, to protect something. Felled trees to make a field to see anyone or anything on the horizon. And after that, if the memory is right, I imagine a cloistered courtyard (also here, on An der Hülben) pierced like a needle, the gates of the Wien Kanal opening endlessly, letting out the waters of the city like a sigh. The body (whose?) never far from sight.
Blue flame burns the hottest 😉
Apparently the word mosaic comes from “muse” or “to muse” and What is musing? to Dream, Wander, Loiter… to sniff about like a dog that has Lost The Scent. Can you form the shape of these words in your mouth? The opening of anything with a capacity – like a bottle or cave. They forced the small rivers flowing through Vienna into one.
It’s round, round in one piece. Our little gate crasher, our little will, things held and shared – in the mouth or mind. And sorry what is that again? Muzzle, Tongue – like everything that is tangible is capitalized: like how it was bone but then cheek became a better word for it.
And what did the corners of your mouth do?
– Rindon Johnson & Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik
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