Tina Barney
dal 19/7/2006 al 30/9/2006
Segnalato da
19/7/2006
Tina Barney
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
The europeans. Images from traditional family relations and views into social plays are of special interest to her. Barney unveils the attitudes of her main actors as a “theatre of manners" and asks the spectator for a fine sensorium for details and for hidden connotations behind her pictures.
The europeans
American photographer Tina Barney was born in New York in 1945. Since more than 30 years she added to the establishment of a widely image-less society within an artistic context through her photographic research: Firstly the motifs of her series of portraits were formed by people from her close environment or member of her own family belonging to the privileged East coast upper class, in her latest series “The Europeans" it converged to people she met on her travels through the “old" continent with the clarified view of an American.
Images from traditional family relations and views into social plays are of special interest to her. Like in a play or a clearly narrated novel family stories, snapshots, vanities, and attempts to cover a psychological survey are densed, which foreshadow the often localised weakness behind the facades despite their brilliant colours and subtle composition.
Tina Barney unveils the attitudes of her main actors as a “theatre of manners" and asks the spectator for a fine sensorium for details and for hidden connotations behind her pictures.
The exhibition was organised by the Barbican Art Galleries London.
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum
Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 9 - Salzburg