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Marco Breuer Untitled (C-1178) , 2012 chromogenic paper, burned 31 3/4 x 25 1/2 in (80.7 x 64.8 cm) unique |
For this new series, Breuer worked in and outside of the darkroom,
exposing photographic color paper to heat, light, and physical abrasion.
Drawing implements included modified hot plates and the guts of
electric frying pans. This exhibition presents works ranging from small
photographic sketches to heavily burned and distressed 30 by 40-inch
prints. Every individual piece constitutes a search, a move away from
the given, a test of the materials' limits. The delicate lines and
exquisite surfaces are what make these works so luminous and dynamic.
In his 20-year career, Breuer has examined fundamental questions of
photographic form and practice. He continues this exploration in Condition
by disrupting the figure/ground relationship of conventional
photography, literally fusing image and support, rendering them
inseparable, one and the same. Scarred and lacerated, the works become
alloys of light, heat, and physical contact.
Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and
Europe. His work is collected by over 25 public institutions worldwide
including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Fogg Art Museum at
Harvard University; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles: and the
Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Breuer was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006, and several
residencies at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In
2007 Aperture published a monograph of his work titled Early Recordings. Breuer's work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, New Yorker, and Brooklyn Rail.
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