BE THERELandscape & PhotographyPresented by Galerie Lelong June 30, 2005- July 29, 2005Andy Goldsworthy, Jane Hammond, Alfredo Jaar, Anders Krisár, Rosemary Laing, Ana Mendieta, Sean Scully, Krzysztof WodiczkoPoints of View features eight of the gallery’s artists who have created photo-based work that employ the landscape in subject and in concept, as a physical and psychological metaphor for the body and spirit, memory, and the fluxes of culture and society.For Andy Goldsworthy, the photograph has long served as a document of his ephemeral works—masterful expressions of the cycle of loss and regeneration intrinsic to the natural world. The Cuban-born Ana Mendieta used pictures in a similar way, recording her groundbreaking performances and earthworks through slides and photographs. The exhibition will feature photographs from her explorations of the silueta [silhouette] form in various settings and materials in nature. Critically acclaimed for his politically and emotionally charged pieces dealing with the influence of imagery, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar presents photographs from his work with gold miners in Brazil during the late-‘80s. Also renowned for his complex approaches to addressing social and political issues, Krzysztof Wodiczko will show photographs of large-scale projections on public structures vital to their city’s landscape. Internationally renowned as a painter, Sean Scully has also used photography to form abstractions of his surroundings, achieving an immediacy unique to the medium and an elegance reminiscent of his paintings. Jane Hammond—known for using an eclectic vocabulary to create potent, intricate paintings and works on paper—will show found vintage photographs she has irreverently reworked, playing on the notion of the photograph as truth. In the series Hiding the Hidden, concealed within park scenes are the parents of Swedish artist Anders Krisár, whose photographs of settings from his childhood strike as both stark and highly intimate. Based in her native Australia, Rosemary Laing composes richly cinematic scenarios that allude to the constant resistance and yielding between nature and its inhabitants, resonating deeply as metaphors for the human psychological struggle. Laing was recently the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, and the Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain; and she will be featured in a group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern this fall. Recent large-scale work by Andy Goldsworthy include Roof at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and an upcoming commission for the reopening of the de Young Museum in San Francisco. This month the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma will present a major exhibition of the work of Alfredo Jaar. The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is organizing a traveling survey of Jane Hammond’s works on paper that will begin in 2006. The landmark retrospective Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985 will open this October at the Miami Art Museum, its fourth and final venue. Wall of Light, a traveling exhibition of paintings by Sean Scully, also opens in October, at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and will conclude next year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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