Vestigia

Scott Benzel
March 30th - April 30th, 2023
Press Release & Workslist
Circumambient Periperization - A talk about Vestigia
Video link HERE
Vestigia - Gallery view
Works L to R - Le Double Monde/The Lathe of Heaven (Tammany) - Given:1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating... - Atonist order (No Dancing) - 3 Muses - Vestigia
Detail of - Given: 1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating...
2023

Remnant wood door, Family Dog Avalon Ballroom poster (Canned Heat, Lothar and the Hand People), sandbags, hardware, disco ball, moving waterfall effect lightbox
Door: 214 x 123 x 83cm, other dimensions variable


Vestigia - Gallery view
Works L to R - Atonist order (No Dancing) - Given:1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating... - Vestigia
Vestigia - Gallery view
Works L to R - 3 Muses - Vestigia - Given:1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating... - Le Double Monde / The Lathe of Heaven
3 Muses
2023
First Face
Triadex Muse, 1972, ‘Typhon’ fluid dynamics simulation,electronics,
wood, aluminum, ‘Vestigia’(connecting...), electronic ‘Dark Pool’
index tracker, electronics, wood, aluminum
89 X 89 X 121cm
3 Muses
2023
Second Face
Triadex Muse, 1972, ‘Typhon’ fluid dynamics simulation,electronics,
wood, aluminum, ‘Vestigia’(connecting...), electronic ‘Dark Pool’
index tracker, electronics, wood, aluminum
89 X 89 X 121cm
3 Muses
2023
Third Face
Triadex Muse, 1972, ‘Typhon’ fluid dynamics simulation,electronics,
wood, aluminum, ‘Vestigia’(connecting...), electronic ‘Dark Pool’
index tracker, electronics, wood, aluminum
89 X 89 X 121cm
Faun Pharmacy (mask)
2023
Peacock feathers, steel
48 x 48 x 190cm
Vestigia
2023
(left-right): The Secret Rose, 2023, gilt stamped paper; Perceptron, 2023 letterpress on relic’d paper;
Fiona Macleod, Pharais, 1st paperback edition, 1903,
Modified anatomaical model spine, platcic, steel, wood
Dimensions variable
Vestigia (The Secret Rose)
2023
Editioned
Gilt stamp on archival paper
217 x 280mm
Vestigia (Perceptron)
2023
Editioned
Letterpress on archival paper
217 x 280mm
Vestigia (Fiona Macleod, Pharais)
2023
Unique
1st paperback edition, 1903
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Vestigia
2023
(left-right) The Compleat Raccoona Sheldon, 2023, gilt stamped paper; Dark Pool (after Aubrey Beardsley and William Copley), 2023, letterpress on relic’d paper; gilt stamped diagram from the cover of “Calculus”, Removed from Calarts Library, 2023; Homage a Tuesday Weld, 2023, “Ruby Tuesday/Let’s Spend the Night Together”, The Rolling Stones, 45 RPM single, Japanese pressing, 1967,“Are You The Boy”, Tuesday Weld, 45 RPM single, Plaza Records, Hollywood, CA, 1962; Faun Pharmacy, 2023, letterpress on relic’d paper; Phantasmicom 9, science fiction fanzine featuring The 20 Mile Rule by James Tiptree, Jr. 1971; The Isle of Aran, frontispiece to The Collected Works of Fiona Macleod edited by William Sharp, 1919, postcard of Edward Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs, National Gallery Millbank, 1907; Athanasius Kircher, ‘Typhon’ from
Mundus Subterraneus, 1665
Mixed media, artist frames, glass
Dimensions variable

Vestigia (The Compleat Raccoona Sheldon)
2023
Editioned
Gilt stamp on archival paper
217 x 280mm
Vestigia(Dark Pool (after Aubrey Beardsley and William Copley)
2023
Editioned
Gilt stamp on archival paper
217 x 280mm
Vestigia (Calculus)
2023
Unique
gilt stamped diagram from the cover of “Calculus”, Removed from Calarts Library, 2023
Homage a Tuesday Weld
2023
Unique
“Ruby Tuesday/Let’s Spend the Night Together”, The Rolling Stones, 45 RPM single, Japanese pressing, 1967,“Are You The Boy”, Tuesday Weld, 45 RPM single, Plaza Records, Hollywood, CA, 1962
Vestigia (Faun Pharmacy)
2023
Editioned
Gilt stamp on archival paper
217 x 280mm
Vesgtigia (Phantasmicom 9)
2023
Unique
Science fiction fanzine featuring The 20 Mile Rule by James Tiptree, Jr. 1971
Vestigia (The Isle of Aran & The Golden Stairs)
2023
Unique
The Isle of Aran, frontispiece to The Collected Works of Fiona Macleod edited by William Sharp, 1919.
Postcard of Edward Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs, National Gallery Millbank, 1907
Vestigia (Typhon)
2023
Unique
Athanasius Kircher, ‘Typhon’ from
Mundus Subterraneus, 1665
Le Double Monde / The Lathe of Heaven
2023
Oscilloscope, brainwave controlled electronics
      Dimensions variable
Atonist order (No Dancing)
2023
Stencil, red spraypaint
83 x 9cm
Le Double Monde / The Lathe of Heaven (Tammany)
2023
Lenticular print
35 x 29cm
Vestigia
2023
(left-right): The Secret Rose, gilt stamped paper; Perceptron,
 letterpress on relic’d paper
Modified anatomaical model spine, platcic, steel, wood
Fiona Macleod, Pharais, 1st paperback edition, 1903.
Dimensions variable
Vestigia
2023
Modified anatomaical model spine, platcic, steel, wood
36 x 28 x 177cm
Vestigia vitrine
2023
2 P-SB7 Spirit Box ITC Research Devices Anatomical model femur, mixed media, birch plywood, plastic
72 x 168 x 97cm