Marco Breuer
dal 21/1/2004 al 6/3/2004
Segnalato da
21/1/2004
Marco Breuer
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
(Outward Manifestations of) Something Else. For this exhibition, Breuer uses his recent experiments in film as a springboard for a complex negotiation of the photographic medium. In a series of cameraless photographs, Breuer marks the surface of photographic color material with a razor blade, building the image line by line. Continuing his own personal brand of iconoclasm, Breuer creates images that are exquisitely rendered, visually complex and provocatively ambiguous.
(OUTWARD MANIFESTATIONS OF) SOMETHING ELSE
Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by
Marco Breuer titled (Outward Manifestations of) Something Else.
For over a decade Marco Breuer has investigated the medium of photography and
its relationship
to related media. For this exhibition, Breuer uses his recent experiments in
film as a springboard for a complex negotiation of the photographic medium. In a
series of cameraless photographs, Breuer marks the surface of photographic color
material with a razor blade, building the image line by line. Continuing his own
personal brand of iconoclasm, Breuer creates images that are exquisitely
rendered, visually complex and provocatively ambiguous.
A group of work titled 'Pan and Tilt', constitute a negotiation of the
illusionistic space of photography versus the concrete space of the physical
mark. Through a process of subtraction, layers of the material are physically
removed and color is forced out of the material (in photographic color material
black contains all other colors).
In a group of self-portraits titled '180º'. Breuer turns the camera against
himself in external manifestations of an internal dialogue. In these encounters
he is simultaneously turning to and away from the camera. Breuer employs a
camera loaded with "slow" photographic paper, using long exposures to collapse
extended periods of time into a single frame. As the prints are physically
reworked, the images show traces of the making and the un-making of the
photographic record.
In 'Dailies', a series of works on paper, Breuer sketches and reconfigures his
images. By reconsidering photographic prints that are direct records of physical
interaction with the material, Breuer draws attention to the relationship
between materials and forces, action and apprehension.
Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. His
work is in numerous collections, including the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard
University in Cambridge; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the New York
Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in
Stuttgart, Germany. He teaches in the MFA program of The Milton Avery Graduate
School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. His publication
SMTWTFS received wide critical acclaim and a photo-eye Award for Best
Photography Book of 2002.
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 6-8 PM
For more information please contact the gallery at 212 242 0599
Von Lintel Gallery
555 West 25th Street
New York