Sondershow Maslen & Mehra
dal 6/2/2006 al 4/6/2006
Segnalato da
6/2/2006
Sondershow Maslen & Mehra
Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin
Metropolis: a special preview of the recent photographies. In Britain, where much of their work has been done, the experimental art of the 1990s was largely ego-driven, autobiographical, and centred on the adventures and traumas of the artist's own life. The preoccupations they express now are increasingly things that are being recognised as fundamental to the whole question of human survival on a threatened planet.
Metropolis
The works of Maslen & Mehra juxtapose images of moving people in busy metropolitan
streets with vast spaces and landscapes. "The contrast of these enlivened and
emphasised landscapes with the silhouettes of the figural sculptures shows an
awareness of a disconnection to nature, that occurs in busy urban cities." Closer
scrutiny reveals the gestures of the urban inhabitants: Someone is seen talking on
his mobile phone, another moves with a heavy backpack through the metropolitan
jungle, he too a product clearly more of an urban than a rural environment. The
compositions contribute to the debate "whether people are a part or apart from
nature" (Maslen & Mehra, 2005).
Maslen & Mehra photograph anonymous people in the busy urban settings. These images
are then used to fabricate sculptures which are then projected into rural or remote
landscapes. The total image is then re-photographed resulting in the ultimate work.
The finished image is then set up in full scale brightly lit light boxes or as
C-Prints. The light boxes are objects of fascination in themselves being disused
advertising displays from the London Tube. The circle is complete.
Image: New lightboxes. Photographed sculpture, medium format origination 194.5 X 135 X 10 cm each, re-used advertising displays from the Underground September 2005
MASLEN & MEHRA website http://www.voidgallery.com/camm.htm
8 page feature in Origina Magazine Mexico. Also features Paul McCarthy, Hussein
Chalayan & Erwin Wurm
Galerie Caprice Horn
Rykestrasse 2 10405 Berlin
Hours: Tue - Fr 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sa 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and by appointment