Footage from the opening reception at Von Lintel Gallery. Courtesy NYC Gallery Openings.
Marco Breuer,
otherwise known as the “photographer without a camera,” has built a
strong reputation over the course of the last 20 years exploring
lens-less “photogenic” art. While many photographers today are employing
more and more complex technology in their work, the German conceptual
artist and 2006 Guggenheim fellow says
his is an “ongoing attempt to strip down the photographic process, to
remove the distractions of equipment, and to force imagery out of
photographic paper itself.”
His latest solo exhibition Condition (on view at Von Lintel Gallery through June 23, 2012)
presents work he made in and out of the darkroom, stressing
photographic paper by exposing it to heat, light, and physical abrasion
with “coal, sandpaper, heat guns, burning swaths of cotton, electric
frying pans, and other unexpected objects,” as one interviewer catalogues.
Ranging from small photographic sketches, to larger 30 by 40-inch
prints, “every individual piece constitutes a search, a move away from
the given, a test of the materials’ limits,” the press release states.
He fuses image and medium, “rendering them inseparable, one and the
same.”
In 2007, Aperture published his monograph Early Recordings, the first comprehensive look at his boldly experimental work, alongside a limited edition slip-cased book which comes with a unique-to-each-edition Polaroid print. His work is also featured in Lyle Rexer’s sold out book, The Edge of Vision (Aperture 2009).
Read John Yau’s review of Breuer’s solo exhibition on HyperAllergic. View installation shots and photos from the opening reception on May 10, 2012 on the Von Lintel Gallery blog. And read interviews with the artist about his work on ARTLOG and on MPR.
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