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JOHN REYNOLDS – Signs – 28 June-22 July, 2016

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THE UBIQUITOUS SIGN

“I’m going down, to Alphabet Street”
Prince

Walk, bike or drive down seemingly any street in Christchurch, and you will eventually confront them – the inevitable cluster of brightly-coloured temporary traffic management signs.

These banal yet insistent warning signs have become an almost permanent feature of the topology and streetscape of Christchurch’s rebuild.

Continuing his signature investigations into what we might call the landscape of language, artist John Reynolds toys with the conventions of traffic signage and searches for new readings with this very ‘public’ format.

 

JR16s04JR16p01'Notes on Disaster #17', 2016, silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 595x420mm'Notes on Disaster #8', 2016, silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 420x295mmJR16p04'Notes on Disaster #7', 2016, silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 420x295mmNOTES ON DISASTER #11, John Reynolds, 2016, Silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mmOpacity, John Reynolds, 2011, reflective vinyl on aluminium, 300 x 1200mm, NOTES ON DISASTER #10, John Reynolds, 2016, Silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mm, (SOLD)'Notes on Disaster #12', 2016, silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 300x210mmNotes on Disaster #15, John Reynolds, 2016, Silver oil paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 300 x 210mm, (SOLD)
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CHAOS THEORY, John Reynolds, 2016, reflective vinyl on aluminium with steel stand, 1760 x 1380(w) x 985(d)mm FUNKY CAPITALISM, John Reynolds, 2016, reflective vinyl on aluminium with steel stand, 1760 x 1380(w) x 985(d)mm UNFORESEEABILITY, John Reynolds, 2016, reflective vinyl on aluminium with steel stand, 1760 x 1380(w) x 985(d)mm Listen to John’s interview on RDU (11mins)