1/5/2008
Aziz + Cucher
ClampArt, New York
Scenapse. The exhibition includes work from the ongoing project, 'Synaptic Bliss', a group of photographs that suggest surfaces are not solid, but rather permeable. First using digital technologies to break down straight-forward camera-based imagery, artists then re-build their scenes to create a deliberate tension between the photographic and the graphic.
ClampArt is proud to announce “Scenapse,” an exhibition of
new photographs by artists, Aziz + Cucher.
For the past fifteen years, the artistic collaborative,
Aziz + Cucher (Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher), has been
producing work that challenges notions of medium
specificity, blurring traditional boundaries dividing
photography from painting and sculpture. Having already
explored such art historic genres as the nude, portraits,
architecture, and interiors in previous series, Aziz +
Cucher’s most recent work focuses upon the landscape.
The exhibition,“Scenapse,” includes work from the ongoing
project, “Synaptic Bliss”—a group of photographs that
suggest surfaces are not solid, but rather permeable.
First using digital technologies to break down straight-
forward camera-based imagery, Aziz + Cucher then re-build
their scenes to create a deliberate tension between the
photographic and the graphic. In these works, the pixel
is highly pronounced not only to highlight the technological
aspect of the process, but also to point to the fact that
the world, like the body, is constructed of tiny particles
and elements.
The essence of everything can ultimately be
reduced to nothing more than the proton, neutron, and
electron, and we, as human beings, are part of that
synchronicity of nature. The images from “Synaptic Bliss”
suggest the potential of one’s body flowing through the
surface of things to become physically enmeshed with the
world.
Aziz + Cucher’s artwork is in the permanent collections of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland;
Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami; Maison Europeene de
la Photographie, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Denver
Museum of Art, Colorado; among many, many others.
Artists' reception: Friday, May 2, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
ClampArt
531 West 25th Street, New York
Tuesday - Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.