Artist Profile
2025 Robert Zott
Medium: Photography, Video & Assemblage
Description: Photos of tombstones, conceptual music videos, music boxes & Poetry Readings
2025 Robert Zott
Medium: Photography, Video & Assemblage
Description: Photos of tombstones, conceptual music videos, music boxes & Poetry Readings
16 x 20" Gelatin Silver Print NFS
Video NFS
737 Flight Recorder
737 Flight Recorder
See below for the schedule of Poetry Readings during OSH
For the past 30 years, Robert Zott has taken photographs of tombstones bearing single last names that are common English words. His subjects appear as he found them; there is no PhotoShop™, no editing of images. For Zott it is essential that the names he uses are part of the genealogical record, returned to common language through the omission of supporting text. When describing his work, he cites Michelangelo who said, “The greatest artist has no single concept that a marble block does not contain already.” The New York Times has written, “Robert Zott’s surveying of graveyards to find tombstones with startlingly appropriate names on them is a fascinating and increasingly well-known obsession.”
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READINGS from "Life Lessons - The Tombstone
Poetry of Robert Zott"
During Open Studio Hartford, Robert Zott will be giving readings from his latest chapbook entitled "Life Lessons - The Tombstone Poetry of Robert Zott."
STUDIO 312 at Artspace at the following times:
- Saturday, November 15th at 2:00 pm
- Saturday, November 15th at 5:15 pm
- Sunday, November 16th at 2:00 pm
Approximately 30 minutes each.
Due to limited space, they will be standing room only.
Robert can be reached RobertZott@comcast.net
Tour Location: ArtSpace Hartford 3rd Floor #312
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