Vague Terrain:Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography Curated by Stamatina Gregory

Presented by The FLAG Art Foundation

May 8, 2009- September 15, 2009

Reception: May 8, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm    

Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Joan Fontcuberta, Barry Frydlender, Noriko Furunishi, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, An-My Le, David Levinthal, Aleksandra Mir, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Jason Wee, James Welling


Andreas Gursky
99 Cent Diptychon (2001)
© 2009 Andreas Gursky / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Matthew Marks Gallery
While photography's unique capacity for fiction and distortion is something we now readily accept—even embrace—the persistent use of the medium to evoke fictive spaces has taken on its own critical currency. Since Gustave Le Gray crafted Brick au clair de lune (an 1856 photograph that used montage and exposure techniques to simulate a seascape) artists have used photography to generate illusory spaces, altered landscapes, and non-sites. Over a century later, the postmodern critique of representation in the 1970s sought to completely demolish photography's relationship to reality. In the process, a visual vocabulary of self-reflexive strategies was amassed that was honed and expanded by contemporary artists. Through pastiche, the use of staged or crafted tableaux, the reproduction of built models, or the documentation of simulated sites, the works in this exhibition create subverted analogues of particular places in history, in time, or in collective memory: armed conflicts, space travel, romantic landscapes, and monumental architecture.

Two works anchor the exhibition: Thomas Demand’s Clearing, 2003 (a photograph of a sculptural construction and an implicit critique of a Romantic past) and Andreas Gursky’s 99 Cent (diptych), 2001 (a hyperreal montage evoking the poverty and excess of the future of capitalism). Respectively, this collection of works explores two corresponding trajectories: the formal and conceptual investigation of landscape as a mediated construction, and the simulation of specific spaces of history and spectacle.

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