TULETTE .- Non-Objectif Sud presents GNOMONS, the 2017 summer exhibition curated by the principle artist-in-residence Julie Ryan.

As an artist and curator Ryan is interested in transitions between depicted scenes and abstraction. How we live with art and art lives with itself in situ, serves as foundations for each exhibition. Featuring nine international artists working in various media GNOMONS arranges itself around ‘depicted scenes’ of riparian habitats and domestic life. Aspects of art making and daily living with art are scattered throughout the exhibtion: sometimes literally and often times obliquely.

The late Georgian artist Tamuna SIRBILADZE created the work gnomon, 2004, Padula, Italy and informs the exhibition’s title. This work will be re-created in Tulette with video by the artist from the original exhibition (which also featured Franz West and Sol LeWitt and was curated by Achille Bonito Oliva). In 2017 Sirbiladze had her first solo exhibition with Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and this autumn a self-titled monograph of her work will be published by David Zwirner Books. Sirbiladze is represented by Charim Galerie,Vienna, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and James Fuentes Gallery, NYC.

Lazar LYUTAKOV lives in Vienna and works with found and DIY materials to create sculpture, light fixture installations and film. The Bulgarian born Lyutakov will be working on site at NOS and recently had a solo exhibitions at Well,Well,Well Gallery and Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna. He is a co-founder of Baba Vasa’s Cellar in Shabla, Bulgaria.

Karine FAUCHARD lives in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. Fauchard exhibited sculpture and still-lives of decaying flowers in various vessels for the 2015 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The French born artist works in various media and currently has a solo show at Vinvin Gallery, Vienna. Fauchard will be working on site at NOS to create a site specific installation.

Walter ROBINSON is a painter and critic living in NYC and known for his realist paintings and keen mind. In 2016 Robinson had a retrospective at Deitch Projects, NYC and in August he will open an exhibit with Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz. In the 1970’s Robinson was the co-founder of the art zine Art-Rite with Edit DeAk and later was the founding editor of Artnet Magazine. Robinson has created an exhibition specific work for this summer’s show at NOS.

Doug JOHNSTON lives in Brooklyn and studied architecture and fine arts and is known for his sculptural and utilitarian vessel works sewn and assembled from cotton cord. Johnston is currently included in an exhibition at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. This summer Johnston is artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska.

Carolyn MARKS BACKWOOD is a photographer, film writer and producer living in Rhinecliff, NY. In 2015 Marks Blackwood installed an exhibition at The Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. She is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles which held a solo presentation of her work at this year’s Armory Show, NYC. For NOS she has produced a unique one-off large scale photographic mural.

Jason STOPA is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Current exhibitions: "Witches & Dudes" at Gallerie Kant in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a contributing writer to Art in America, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and The New Hampshire Institute of Art. Stopa will be working on site at NOS.

Lawrence WEINER lives in NYC. In 2018 he will unveil a major work commissioned by The Shed cultural center, NYC. As one of the founders of Conceptual Art his largely text based works rely on audience engagement and the significance of site-specificity. Weiner has exhibited in countless exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world and in 2007-08 a major retrospective of Weiner’s work took place at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Whitney Museum, NYC.

Julie RYAN lives in Brooklyn, NY after 12 years in Europe. Ryan will participate in an upcoming exhibition in September at the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC. Recently her work was included at DC Moore, NYC and Gesso Galerie, Vienna. Julie curated GNOMONS and will create work on site for the exhibition. Ryan’s work often incorporate aspects of curatorial modes of display; investigating the subtle permissions artists grant one another within the 'group exhibition' format.

The essay The Irony of Togetherness by cultural critic, author and educator Jeff RIAN serves as an external theme to the exhibition delving into presentation and identification, humor, sex, self-destruction and Karl Marx (for good measure). The substrate of this article serves to agitate, organize and ultimately question the exhibition experience.

For GNOMONS the Paris based photographer Giasco BERTOLI produced issue #12 of his ongoing project Roses Tatouées. The popular tendance magazine functions as the catalogue for the show and a portable ‘exhibition within an exhibition.’ Ultimately Roses Tatouées reimagines and collates GNOMONS into a succinct take-away ephemeral object that both expands and constrains the viewer / viewed relationship.