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'Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This is Planet Earth)' by Josef Bull at Tops Gallery, Memphis

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Tops Gallery is pleased to announce Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This is Planet Earth), an exhibition of new works by Josef Bull at Tops Gallery and Tops at Madison Avenue Park.

Believing in meaningful coincidences and the mystical potential of all things, Josef Bull's work meditates on anomalous chains of interconnected information.

Here, in new two- and three-dimensional constellations, specific characters and phenomena from contemporary culture intermingle with objects and practices of everyday life. Corporate yoga logos unite with kindred crop circle formations; LOTR antagonist Saruman frames Bull's paintings of famed start-up garages of Silicon Valley; Danny from The Shining morphs with a real-life namesake doppelgänger whose life-saving "hunch" was noticed by local Michigan News. Layered on both photographic and sculptural surfaces, these blends of found and original materials lay out Bull's attempts to both make sense of and recreate the feeling of bewilderment induced by an evermore confounding world.

At Tops at Madison Avenue Park, Bull's video installation This is Planet Earth (2017) looks at domesticity with an astronomer's gaze. Housed within a suspended propane barbecue, a handheld video tour of a suburban yard loops to the sound of a cab-driving Youtube user's existential rant on the miracle of life. Surrounded by other icons of the American home, the piece becomes a reflection on the domestic landscape as a container for inner and outer space.

HOME TV INNER SPACE/OUTER SPACE METEORITES EBAY GOOGLE GARAGES CARS CALIFORNIA LORD OF THE RINGS MAGIC WAND MASTURBATION TONY ROBBINS BBQ CLIMATE CHANGE MUD BACKYARD BIRD BATH EVOLUTION JOEL OSTEEN RED APPLE ADDICTION MOON LANDING FRONT YARD FIRE BRENTWOOD CAT STEP COUNT SURVEILLANCE DIVINE LIGHT UBER DRIVER 33 FRODO BAGGINS 42 OPRAH WINFREY BLISTERS RITE OF PASSAGE BIRTHDAY FALCON RAT YOUTUBE 1984 

25.11.17 — 12.1.18

Tops Gallery

'ABSINTHE', Group Show Curated by PLAGUE at Smena, Kazan

'Pupila' by Elizabeth Burmann Littin at Two seven two gallery, Toronto

'Auxiliary Lights' by Kai Philip Trausenegger at Bildraum 07, Vienna

'Inferno' by Matthew Tully Dugan at Lomex, New York

'Зamok', Off-Site Group Project at dentistry Dr. Blumkin, Moscow

'Dog, No Leash', Group Show at Spazio Orr, Brescia

'Syllables in Heart' by Thomas Bremerstent at Salgshallen, Oslo

'Out-of-place artifact', Off-Site Project by Artem Briukhov in Birsk Fortress, Bi

'Gardening' by Daniel Drabek at Toni Areal, Zurich

'HALF TRUTHS', Group Show at Hackney Road, E2 8ET, London

'Unknown Unknowns' by Christian Roncea at West End, The Hague

'Thinking About Things That Are Thinking' by Nicolás Lamas at Meessen De Clercq,

‘Funny / Sad’, Group Show by Ian Bruner, Don Elektro & Halo, curated by Rhizome P

'Don’t Die', Group Show at No Gallery, New York

'Almost Begin' by Bronson Smillie at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'I'll Carry Your Heart's Gray Wing with a Trembling Hand to My Old Age', Group Sh

'hapy like a fly' by Clément Courgeon at Colette Mariana, Barcelona

'Fear of the Dark' by Jack Evans at Soup, London

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