Two exhibitions
dal 4/4/2003 al 3/5/2003
Segnalato da
4/4/2003
Two exhibitions
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Vera Lutter: an exhibition of monumental camera obscura photographs. The exhibition will feature highlights from major projects completed over the past five years and will include over twelve large-scale works. Jenny Saville, 'Migrants', new paintings. In this exhibition, worked on over the last two years, Saville further explores the workings of the flesh.
VERA LUTTER
Apr 5 - May 3, 2003
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of monumental camera obscura photographs by Vera Lutter. The exhibition will feature highlights from major projects completed over the past five years and will include over twelve large-scale works. Drawn to the urban environment, Lutter selects places with historic or iconic resonance from the abandoned Pepsi Cola Factory in Long Island City to Frankfurt International Airport to the Kvaerner Shipyards.
Using room-sized cameras, Lutter often inhabits the camera during the exposure which can last hours, days or even weeks. The camera obscura works with the premise that when light passes through a small hole into a darkened chamber it produces an inverted image on the opposite wall. Lutter projects her subjects onto photo-sensitized paper and develops them as unique negatives. The ethereal tones imbue the resulting images with a haunting quality.
Standing in front of one of her photographs, we can imagine ourselves inside the massive camera, the image taking shape in front of us while the world plays out its scenes behind. That Lutter has been inside the camera makes the identification more immediate, because we picture that space as a human, corporeal space. If we usually think of the camera as a machine or tool of objectivity, through her presence - her performance - we can now understand it as a space of physicality and subjectivity.
-Elizabeth E. Siegel,
The Art Institute of Chicago
Vera Lutter's photographs have been exhibited at the Dia Foundation, New York; the Kunsthalle, Basel; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Neue Galerie and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Reception for the artist: Saturday, April 5th, 6 - 8pm
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JENNY SAVILLE : Migrants
Apr 5 - May 3, 2003
Gagosian Gallery is very pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition of new paintings by Jenny Saville. Migrants will be her first solo exhibition since her show at Gagosian Gallery in 1999. Saville has been recognized as one of the most thought-provoking and technically accomplished talents of her generation. She has become known for her monumental paintings of fleshy nudes. In this exhibition, worked on over the last two years, Saville further explores the workings of the flesh.
Saville calls herself a 'scavenger of images;' she prefers to work from photographs rather than living models. Her studio is a repository of images from old medical journals of bruises, scars, images of deformities and disease. On a recent visit to her brother's farm in England, she found and photographed the corpse of a dead pig. The subsequent painting shows its distended stomach splayed across a huge canvas. Reminiscent of the paintings of Chaim Soutine, Saville was drawn to this subject matter because of her interest in the medical world's use of pig organs for human transplant as well as cloning. With Saville's handling, this potentially revolting subject is disturbing yet glorious.
Also included will be Saville's first work depicting a subject outside the studio. In it a half-naked woman, screaming, appears to be running from a building as hands from an unseen figure are restraining her. Horror and trauma blazes across her face. Painted with strong, urgent brushstrokes, this disturbing painting depicts how deeply the artist is influenced by current world events.
The four remaining works in the show include a beautiful, richly worked image of Saville's head laid on its side. Unlike the previous exhibition where her layered palette was mostly pale ethereal colors of pinks and grays, this new body of work is dominated by bold, bloody colors such as reds, browns and blues.
A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Linda Nochlin will accompany the exhibition.
Opening reception: Saturday, April 5, 6 - 8pm
Image: JENNY SAVILLE
Reverse, 2002-2003
Oil on canvas, 84 x 96 inches (213.4 x 243.8 cm)
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