August Project 2015: Simon Yates

The Return of the Space Wizards

An exhibition by Simon Yates

Saturday & Sunday 22-23 August 2015, 11-4pm
Saturday & Sunday 29-30 August 2015, 11-4pm

Drinks & stuff: 2-4pm Saturday 22nd August, 2015

The Space Wizards are back to save contemporary art! In the first episode the wizards successfully defeated the Mediators, mercenary space police who could dissolve objects into images. Now they face a new threat: an invasion by ‘Boltzmann Brains’ and their remote controlled Face Ships.

Space Wizards is a trilogy of allegorical science fiction stories that explore crises and debates in contemporary art. The Space Wizards are not only wizards of outer space, but also of sculptural space. Each has their own set of giant ‘Waldo’ hands with unique artistic powers that they use to make things and defend themselves.

Simon Yates, The Return of the Space Wizards

Simon Yates’ artworks often take the form of inventions which aim to solve problems or bypass complicated technology. Space Wizards incorporates many of these art-inventions into a fictional illustrated and sculptural universe inhabited by various life-forms based on 20th century art movements. Join the Wizards as they harness the powers of art and science to defend the future.

See more of Simon’s work here.