Matt Siber
dal 14/10/2008 al 16/1/2009
Segnalato da
14/10/2008
Matt Siber
Billirubin Gallery, Berlin
Logos & Untitled. His photographs highlight on the formal as well as contextual significance of information which is incorporated in everyday life as words and textual shapes appear everywhere. Offering a range of large format urban photography, Siber produces explicit artworks by fragmenting picture and text.
During the European month of photography Billirubin Gallery presents the artworks of the young American photoartist Matt Siber. The series Logos&Untitled will be shown from October 15, 2008, until January 17, 2009.
The exhibition Logos&Untitled shows two closely intertwined workcycles of art by the young American photographer Matt Siber. His photographs highlight on the formal as well as contextual significance of information which is incorporated in everyday life as words and textual shapes appear everywhere. Offering a range of large format urban photography, Matt Siber produces subtle as well as explicit artworks by fragmenting picture and text both analytically and in an abstract manner. By manipulating printed advertisements in his LOGOS-series and implementing them into the space of a metropolitan context as floating elements the artist digitally provides provoking and cynical paraphrases of modern life.
In Siber's UNTITLED-series diptychs are displayed in which urban writing and text-elements have been extracted from their original context and are being presented seperately without spacial setting.
With his focus on the relationship between image and sign and their implications for society, Siber operates in the domain of traditional as well as early and classical modern photography. Moholy Nagy, Man Ray, Paul Strand, Bill Witt, Walker Evans - they all focused on the content and topification of shapes and symbols in photography. Prior to his death in 1975, Walker Evans was working on a book that consisted of polaroid photographs of signs and letters, that were to build a collaged alphabet. Therefore Evans photographically fragmented text symbols from the urban environment and presented them in a new and photographic perspective. Matt Siber is now conceptually folowing similar intentions making full use of the inherent capabilities of the digital workflow resulting in truely masterly pieces of art.
The photographs of Matt Siber are included in the Art-Institute of Chicago and the Museum-of-Contemporary-Photography.
Matt Siber lives and works in Chicago, USA.
Opening reception: Wednesday October 15, 7 - 10 pm
Billirubin Gallery
Linienstr. 127 - D-10115 Berlin
Opening hours: Wed-Fri 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. + Sat 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.