EY PROJECTS is pleased to announce our duo show “Pilotism - the Millenium Nomads” with artists Daniel Roibal and Zach Zono. 

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“Pilotism” is a neologism that describes the courageous, brave, and adventurous spirit of a pilot. It is a word we use to describe a new form of abstract language and a contemporary state of being characterised by Daniel Roibal and Zach Zono.

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Both artists have a father who works as a pilot. This pleasant coincidence inspires the title of the show and the very terminology “pilotism”. Having a pilot father allows the two artists the thirst as well as the condition to travel and experience the world. Constant international travel gives rise to an open, fluid and chaotic state of mind – a distinctive phenomenological experience. For both, abstraction is a form of artistic language that summarises an attempt to seek order within chaos, departing from figuration but ending up in the spiritual realm.

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Both Zach Zono and Daniel Roibal’s work depart from the natural landscape – foliage, mountains, forests of a particular geographic location – but meanwhile resonates with the audience regardless of background due to their universal abstract artistic language. Through dynamic strokes and bright colours, Zono and Roibal celebrates this chaos and encourages free interpretation. The impression of one particular landscape is joined by memories of other places, other experiences, figments, fragments. The abstract language becomes a medium that unifies, explains, and rationalizes an array of assemblages. At the same time, this process from concrete objects to abstract formal language is highly individualized with no fixed pattern. The significance of abstraction in the contemporary context goes beyond legitimizing painting as a medium but captures and defines the very condition where system and mega time-machines crumble and having differences becomes the only similarity the world shares.

ARTISTS

Daniel Roibal

​Zach Zono