Book Launch | Back to the Future Past: Tyler Brett / Paul Holsby

ADMISSION
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Entrance via back alley.

Join Trapp Projects for the launch of Back to the Future Past coinciding with an opening reception.

Back to the Future Past features the artwork of Tyler Brett and Paul Holsby. While separated by geography and time, both artists mine the past to envision a technologically infused future that reads as neither fiction nor reality. Whereas Holsby worked in a remote rural area on the West Coast of Sweden until his death in 2007, Brett lives and works in Sointula located in the Pacific Northwest of Canada on Malcolm Island. The exhibition presents a series of lithographs produced by Holsby in the 1970s, alongside photographic prints and the artist book Fantasy Sheds of Sointula by Tyler Brett.

Curated by Patrik Andersson.

Tyler Brett lives and works in Sointula, B.C. where since 2013 he has been co-directing The Sointula Art Shed Artist Residency with his partner Kerri Reid and their son Teddy. His most recent project, Fantasy Sheds of Sointula combines photography and AI generated imagery to re-envision the utopian settlement of Sointula as a multi-volume artist book series portraying vernacular architectural fantasies and realities situated within artificial and existent Sointulan landscapes.

Paul Holsby (1921-2007) is a Swedish artist from the North Western region of Skåne who after studying in Paris under the cubist painter André Lhote, became known for lithographic prints that depict a world of images that shuttle back and forth between primitive pasts and technological futures. As if responding to Marshall McLuhan’s idea that society was retribalizing into a global village via technology, Holsby’s cityscapes are technological and ecological hybrids that posit a world run on solar energy rather than natural resource extractions such as oil.

Patrik Andersson is the founder and director of Trapp Projects. He teaches Art and Ideas at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in the Audain Faculty of Art