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5/2/2003

Alvin Booth

Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

Peep. The exhibition will feature a selection of Booth's prolific photographs of the female nude. At once sensual, forbidden and humorous, Booth's corporeal portraits tread a delicate balance between classic allusions and contemporary provocations.


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FIFTY ONE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of photographic nudes by British artist Alvin Booth. The exhibition will feature a selection of Booth's prolific photographs of the female nude. At once sensual, forbidden and humorous, Booth's corporeal portraits tread a delicate balance between classic allusions and contemporary provocations.

Over the past decade, Alvin Booth has developed a signature printing style utilizing both salt prints and richly toned gelatin silver prints. Each image is framed in soldered metal, a technique strongly reminiscent of leaded glass and underscoring the period look of the work. To his distinctive technical virtuosity, Booth adds a singular vision in the composition and manipulation of his models .In the Corpus series binding appendages of the body with latex and rope, Booth further accentuates the rhythms, syncopations and arcs of both male and female figures. The final product not only integrates image and object, it synthesizes a timeless veneer with a starkly contemporary subject matter.

Osmosis is a departure from Booth's earlier work of intense erotic nudes. . The artist's materials and subject matter remain the same as in his previous work Corpus,- simple lighting, a nude figure, latex, - it is how they are assembled that has dramatically changed. The focus shifts from the details of flesh and skin to that of the whole body; the human form is reduced to its bare lines and like a delicate gouache the body dissolves into the paper. The very material of the original corsets becomes the medium by which the human form is abstracted. Bodies become oblique and translucent- attenuated haunting shadows.

Clockworks focuses on vision, images and motion. Each clockwork consists of two different images, two three inch ( 5-7 cm ) circles, fastened back to back, hang from a customized copper and solder cased clockwork motor. The addition of motion to this two dimensional sandwich merges the two-dimensional images into one three-dimensional body floating in its own space.

Peepholes, 2 inch ( 5 cm ) round salt prints framed in a glass and copper box evokes the illicit ambiance of the pornographic daguerreotype of the 1850s as well as the 'naughty' French postcards from later in the nineteenth century. The intimate format of the Peepholes, invites the viewer to step into their erotic tableaux. We are transformed into the voyeur at the bedroom door keyhole.

Alvin Booth was born in Hull, an industrial city in Northeast England. He has previously shown in numerous shows both in the US and Europe and is represented in numerous public and private collections. His first book Corpus was published in 1999 and he is looking forward to the publication of his next book Osmosis. Booth lives and works between New York and France.

You are cordially invited to the opening ( with a reception for the artist ) on Thursday 6 February 2003 at 19h00

FIFTY ONE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
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