Gregory Crewdson
dal 28/6/2002 al 3/8/2002
Segnalato da
28/6/2002
Gregory Crewdson
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Twilight. Crewdson continues his ongoing series of elaborately staged, large-scale color photographs that explore the psychological underside of the American vernacular. The photographs combine a realist aesthetic sensibility with a highly orchestrated interplay of cinematic lighting, staging, and special effects.
Twilight
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of twenty new
photographs by Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson continues his ongoing series of
elaborately staged, large-scale color photographs that explore the
psychological underside of the American vernacular. The photographs combine
a realist aesthetic sensibility with a highly orchestrated interplay of
cinematic lighting, staging, and special effects. This collision between the
normal and the paranormal produces a tension that serves to transform the
topology of the suburban landscape into a place of wonder and anxiety.
Crewdson's recent photographs are increasingly dark and mysterious in tone
as they move deeper into the psychological bedrock of social alienation,
personal obsession, and sexual desire. The artist's narratives occur at
moments of enigmatic transformation. Submerged in water, a lifeless woman
stares blankly upwards, as she lies in a flooded living room. Sitting at a
dinner room table with his father and sister, an adolescent boy witnesses
his absent mother appear nude at the front door, wet with rain and mud,
carrying uprooted flowers from the garden. Framed by a picture window, a
lone man is viewed ascending a magnificent flowering vine that has
mysteriously erupted from the front lawn of a nocturnal suburban street.
Crewdson's brand of psychological realism is shaped by an American aesthetic
tradition of art and film that explores the intersection of everyday life
and theatricality.
In conjunction with this exhibition, Harry N. Abrams published a hardcover
book of the complete Twilight series with an introduction by Rick Moody,
available in bookstores.
Gregory Crewdson is an internationally exhibited artist. He is the subject
of numerous monographs and articles. He is on the faculty of the Department
of Photography at Yale University and lives in New York City
Image: Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (butterflies lifting house), 1997
Reception for the artist: Saturday, June 29, 6 - 8pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tue - Sat 10:00am- 5:30pm
GAGOSIAN GALLERY
456 NORTH CAMDEN DRIVE
Beverly Hills
T. 310 2719400
F. 310 2719420