Dennis Adams
dal 17/5/2002 al 28/6/2002
Segnalato da
17/5/2002
Dennis Adams
Kent Gallery, New York
Airborne: a series of large format photographs. Searching the skies over lower Manhattan since 9/11, Adams has photographed newspapers and plastic bags that he observed floating over the city. This lightweight debris becomes airborne from gusts and updrafts generated by traffic, architecture and weather conditions of the city. Suspended in the atmospheric light of changing skies, Adams has captured these isolated urban fragments as potential signs of both memory and prophesy.
Kent Gallery is pleased
to present a series of large format photographs by the New York based
artist, Dennis Adams. Searching the skies over lower Manhattan since 9/11,
Adams has photographed newspapers and plastic bags that he observed floating
over the city. This lightweight debris becomes airborne from gusts and
updrafts generated by traffic, architecture and weather conditions of
the city. Suspended in the atmospheric light of changing skies, Adams
has captured these isolated urban fragments as potential signs of both
memory and prophesy.
Dennis Adams was born
in 1948 in Des Moines, Iowa. He is internationally recognized for his
public interventions and museum installations that address the processes
of collective memory and social control in the design and use of architecture
and public space. His work had been the subject of over 50 one-person
exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe.
Recent commissions include Neue Messe Munchen, Munich, Staten Island Ferry
Terminal, and Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. Adams’ recent museum exhibitions
include the Velan Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HCBK, The Hague, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst,
Antwerp, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
Adams was represented
in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and in the year 2001, produced major installations
for the Witt de With in Rotterdam as well as the public project
for the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore in conjunction with the Contemporary
Museum. He is currently working on public projects in Miami, New York,
Sao Paulo and Utrecht.
Adams has been a faculty
member or Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including, Parsons
School of Design, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Rijksakademie
van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste,
Munich. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program
in the School of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He currently teaches
at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
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