Garry Fabian Miller
dal 7/11/2002 al 21/12/2002
Segnalato da
7/11/2002
Garry Fabian Miller
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Fabian Miller is not a photographer in the usual sense, he confronts his raw material, light, just as the pioneers of photography did. As a modernist Fabian Miller starts at the basics and rebuilds afresh, quite literally in the latest series as he has created buildings out of light.
Burning · Golden · Night Cities
Although Garry
Fabian Miller is not a photographer in the usual sense, he confronts his raw
material, light, just as the pioneers of photography did. As a modernist Fabian
Miller starts at the basics and rebuilds afresh, quite literally in the latest
series as he has created buildings out of light.
`A year and more had
passed since the last Petworth Window was made, May 9th 2000, a final cross.
Looking back, ' the artist explains, `I was increasingly drawn to the
complex matrix of vertical and horizontal lines filling the rectangle of white
light in the last April pictures, these suggesting a place of many windows, a
tower of many souls'.
Fabian Miller's labour-intensive
method of work has long been compared to the disciplines of architecture. In
making the Night Cities series he admits to thinking about Mies and Mendelsohn.
This series, shown alongside other recent work by the artist, will demonstrate a
consistent clarity of thought.
Fabian Miller's series of work
Thoughts of a Night Sea (some of which were shown at Tate Liverpool in Summer
2001) has inspired a collaboration between the artist and the writer Lavinia
Greenlaw. Published by Merrell, in association with Purdy Hicks Gallery,
Ingleby Gallery Edinburgh and Nichido Contemporary Art Tokyo (where the artist
will be holding a solo show in the autumn), in a magnificent book with over 25
colour reproductions of work from this series and a specially written poem by
Lavinia Greenlaw will be available in Autumn 2002.
From 17 August
' 12 October Garry Fabian Miller will be exhibiting at the Graves Art
Gallery in Sheffield. The exhibition will include new work made in response to
Gwen John';s painting A Corner of the Artist';s Room in the collection
of the Graves. An illustrated booklet with an essay by Martin Barnes, Curator
of Photographs at the Victoria & Albert Museum accompanies the exhibition.
Purdy Hicks Gallery
65 Hopton Street (Bankside) SE1 9GZ London
Tel +44-(0)207-401 9229 Fax +44-(0)207-401 9595