The Story Of The Rio (Abridged)

About

Coinciding with three Latham shows in London this spring* Flat Time House presents two studies for John Latham's epic 20 panel work Story of the RIO. The 'RIO' of the title is the 'Reflective Intuitive Organism' and the works describe the evolution of human knowledge and culture, beginning with a blank, white panel and ending with a complex book relief. In Story of the RIO (reflective intuitive organism) a sequence of 18 panels depicts the development of a complex universe containing RIOs from a proto universe. John used transparent glass, his third important medium/material, to signify an atemporal score or informing component of events. A transparent glass panel followed by a plain white panel represents the proto universe consisting of a state 0 followed by a state 1, or Least Event. And the remainng panels in the sequence represent highlihgted evenometric steps. The final panel is a book relief in which a reflective intuitive organism appears as one book cluster along with other clusters representing a merely reflective organism and a nonreflective organism."