Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
A new series of large, brilliantly colored photographic works, extracted from the world of decaying vestiges of the past left at the former Norblin Factory site in Warsaw. Gilbert, who was awarded the Nobel Price for his scientist career, plays with scale on a border between reality and abstraction.
The Norblin Project
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art presents a solo exhibit of photographs by Wally
Gilbert, a new series of large, brilliantly colored works entitled "The Norblin
Project - Images of Decay." These images are fragments extracted from the world of
decaying vestiges of the past left at the former Norblin Factory site in Warsaw,
Poland. The work explores entropy and the artifacts of time, depicting architectural
details and the mechanical apparatus of industry from an era long past.
The Norblin Project will be a major installation in Warsaw in 2007.
From May 28th through July 31, 2007, Gilbert will mount a show at the
Norblin Factory site, as large hangings on fabric.
Placed throughout the factory halls, the extremely large images of small elements will create a dramatic
contrast to the actual objects present.
Photographed during the Spring of 2006, this long unused factory in the center of Warsaw now consists of large buildings and disused machinery as well as a Museum of Technology, a Museum of
Vintage Cars, a Museum of Printing, and an occasional summer art gallery.
Jan Kubasiewicz and Jozef Zuk Piwkowski will curate the exhibit in Warsaw. Jan
Kubasiewicz is Professor of Design and Chair of the Dynamic Media Institute at the
Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt) in Boston.
Jozef Zuk Piwkowski is the publisher of an art magazine "Working Title" and the owner of an independent
art gallery, "Gallery 2b," in Warsaw.
Wally Gilbert plays with scale in his photographic work on a border between reality
and abstraction, where each piece is a study in color, texture and form. In his
previous career as scientist, Gilbert was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1980 for his
landmark work in DNA gene sequencing. As a scientist, he examined the world in its
smallest details, and now through his photography, he enlarges small visual
elements around us to reveal the world in his unique and beautiful vision. This
extensive exhibit includes thirty limited edition images as 36" x 24" face-mounted
prints and several large canvas hangings, two measuring 120" x 44" and one at 66" x
44."
Opening november, 9 2006 h.7pm
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
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