Alex Slade
dal 3/7/2002 al 27/7/2002
Segnalato da
3/7/2002
Alex Slade
Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
'The new photographs I've been working on are black and white interiors of a Victorian cottage in Maine. I wanted to make a set of black and white landscapes but found the countryside there to offer up only cliches. I noticed all these paintings in the house we were staying in of the local scenery.' Alex Slade
'The new photographs I've been working on are black and white interiors of a Victorian
cottage in Maine. I wanted to make a set of black and white landscapes but found the
countryside there to offer up only clichés. I noticed all these paintings in the house we
were staying in of the local scenery. The owner (during the 60s and 70s) was
something of a Sunday painter. I thought that photographing these paintings as they
were displayed in the architecture would be a nice way of commenting on the tradition
of landscape imagery. In printing them I decided that it would be a nice way of
describing architectural space to print them to scale so that depending on how far
away the camera was from the wall the picture would be bigger or smaller. The
paintings themselves would be mostly the same size but you see more or less room
around them.
The sculptural element I am planning for the show will describe the wave front of a simple greeting, "Hi" as it passes through the 2 columns in the middle of your space. I see it as being a three-dimensional picture of the sound at a given moment.'
Alex Slade (e-mail excerpt), January 2002.
A sculpture by Alex Slade was previously included in the Three-Day-Weekend, organized by artist Dave Muller at the gallery in February 2001.
Alex Slade lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his Master's degree from the California Institute for the Arts. Solo exhibitions include Goldman Tevis Gallery, and London Street Projects (L.A. 2002), and Wiensowski & Harbord gallery (Berlin 2000). Group shows include 'Snapshot' at the UCLA Hammer Museum (Summer 2001).
Opening 4 July 9-11 pm
Exhibition 5-27 July 2002
Summer Opening Hours: Thu-Fri 2-9 pm
The exhibition will continue from 26 September until 19 October 2002
Opening Hours: Wed-Thu-Fri 2-8 pm and Sat 2-6
On 25 September, a special event will be organized to open the season. The event will take place within the framework of the Month of Photography. In collaboration with ARGOS, a Brussels based new media library, Els Hanappe Underground will present a selection of short artistic video films that deal with the subject of photography.
Els Hanappe Underground
Melanthiou 2, Psyrri
Athens