Frank Abruzzese
dal 25/4/2012 al 2/5/2012
Segnalato da
25/4/2012
Frank Abruzzese
Ormond Artists, Dublin
In 'Live Load' Abruzzese investigates this shifting engagement and behaviour that one has with landscape through his experimental and process driven working method. These photographs capture a sequence of movement and cycles of time simultaneously.
Live Load is the variable weight burdened by a structure, such as moving traffic on a bridge, furniture and people in a high-rise office building, or the weight of a person sitting on a chair.
A farmer with an intimate knowledge of his land will tell you that if you are planning to build a house in a particular field it is best to observe the behaviour of animals on that site: they instinctively know where the best spots are. Throughout history, people have engaged with and observed the land, the sea and the stars for understanding, meaning and survival. As populations move to cities this firsthand engagement has largely been replaced by a pre-mapped understanding. Inherited traditions and intuition have been replaced by an analytical model grounded in empirical methodologies.
In Live Load, Wexford based artist Frank Abruzzese investigates this shifting engagement and behaviour that one has with landscape through his experimental and process driven working method. Taking influence from the pioneering photographic work of Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii – Abruzzese’s photographs are captured in three isolated colour channels and then recombined to reveal full colour images. The evidence of the live load is captured in successive impressions of cyan, magenta and yellow, exposing the fluctuating elements of a place and its variable occupants. These photographs capture a sequence of movement and cycles of time simultaneously.
Having studied at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Francisco Art Institute, USA, Philadelphia born Frank Abruzzese has exhibited extensively internationally and received the Emerging Photographer of the Year award from San Francisco Magazine. In 2007 Frank Abruzzese and his wife Rosie O'Gorman founded Cow House Studios, a progressive artist studio set in rural Wexford, Ireland.
This exhibition is a component of an inter-studio exchange programme between Cow House Studios, Wexford and Ormond Studios, Dublin.
http://www.frankabruzzese.com/
Opening reception April 26th 2012, 6-8pm.
Ormond Studios,
6 Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin
Opening 12pm-5pm daily.
Admission free