Adam Fuss
dal 24/9/2002 al 12/1/2003
Segnalato da
24/9/2002
Adam Fuss
Museum of Fine Arts MFA, Boston
Fuss has made a series of images, such as, in which a sunflower symbolizes the power of the sun and serves as a metaphor for both the transience of life and regeneration. At a moment in time when large format, digitally manipulated color photographs compete with paintings for our attention, Adam Fuss continues to make pictures of unrivaled beauty and mystery with traditional and historical photographic techniques.
Fuss has made a series of images, such as, in which a sunflower symbolizes the power of the sun and serves as a metaphor for both the transience of life and regeneration
At a moment in time when large format, digitally manipulated color
photographs compete with paintings for our attention, Adam Fuss continues
to make pictures of unrivaled beauty and mystery with traditional and
historical photographic techniques. His exploration of the processes for
making daguerreotypes, platinum prints or photograms, for example, is not
the result of a fascination with technology or a romance with the past but
a desire to compose and a passion to realize an idea.
Fuss has most often made unique images with a simple process that
completely eliminates the camera a photogram. Dependent upon the
physical qualities of the actual object placed on light-sensitive paper
and the length of its exposure to light Fuss has created stunning
abstractions and poignant compositions from such materials as babies in
water, the trail of snakes across a surface, sunflowers , rabbits and
their entrails and light moving in space. Since 1999 he has worked on a
series entitled My Ghost an evocative reference with spiritual
associations realized in such images as christening gowns, transparent and
absent the warmth of the intended wearer or columns of smoke captured
during their brief existence. Many of these unique and intimate prints are
large in scale.
While his subjects are recognizable and often familiar, their associations
are metaphysical and, even, emotional. Much has been said of his work as a
type of deepening internalization of photography through his penetrating
acknowledgement of the required chemical process traditionally necessary
to create a print. About his images, he commented: Its only when I make
a picture that I have to keep looking at that I feel Ive succeeded. Ive
always needed to make images that have a sense of revelation to the
viewer, namely me. (Im not surprised by them) Its more like the
sensation of looking into the face of someone very beautiful. Or, perhaps,
when youre faced with the unknown. I got into pinhole and photograms
because I was bored with the pictures I was seeing.
A resident of New York since 1982, Fuss was born in London and departed
England for Australia where he first studied photography while working as
studio assistant to a commercial photographer. After arriving in New York
he worked as a commercial photographer documenting art exhibitions. He has
been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally and
his work is in private and public collections. This exhibition will be the
first survey of Fuss career and will include images from
several of his primary series including the spirals, flowers, waterdrops,
snakes and images from the ongoing series. The Kunstahalle
Bielefeld is organizing this exhibition and it will premier at the
MFA before circulating to Europe.
Image:
Adam Fuss, English, Born 1961, Untitled
Cibachrome Photogram, T. Walter Collection
Foster and Rabb Galleries
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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