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The Photographic Object 24 April – 14 June 2009
The Photographic Object
Dates: 24 April – 14 June 2009
Location: 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, W1
The Photographic Object will examine photography as an object in its own right and on its own terms. The advent of digital photography and the current aturation of imagery, through print, mobile phones and the internet, has resulted in a renewed interest in the physical and tactile quality of the photograph.
This exhibition will bring together a diversity of approaches to the photograph as ‘object’, such as overlaying, stitching, cutting, piercing, punching or moulding the works. The works in the exhibition will explore the material potential of the photographic form that lies somewhere between two and three dimensions. The Photographic Object will display the work of a range of internationally renowned artists who use photography in this manner.
Painter Gerhard Richter (Germany, b.1932) has always worked closely with photography, enlarging and reproducing photograph in paint on canvas. Since 1989, Richter has worked on Overpainted photographs, an evocative project where he paints onto images from holiday snaps or family albums, the thick paint adding a further narrative to the work.
Andy Warhol’s (USA, 1928 – 1987) stitched photographs are a continuation of his silkscreen paintings and reflect his trademark use of repetition to nullify content. The decorative element of the sewn thread creates unique, fetishistic objects that subvert the objective aims of photography.
In his Lighter series Wolfgang Tillmans (Germany, b.1968) physically intervenes with the works and folds, creases and punches large colour field photographs into sculptural shapes against the wall.
Similarly performative is Catherine Yass’ (UK, b.1963) ongoing series Damage (2005 –). Yass drowns, burns and scrapes colour transparencies of urban scenes, taking the subject matter as the inspiration for its destruction.
Walead Beshty (UK, b.1976) uses photography as material form, exploring the separation between the physical and image world. Employing colour and monochromic photograms, Beshty folds, creases and rolls the photographic paper through a variety of processes, creating images which are both abstract and material in their form and content.
An interest in found family photographs is at the heart of Maurizio Anzeri’s (Italy, b.1969) work. Collecting old discarded portraits that once belonged in family albums Anzeri creates dark, psychological collages by intricately stitching onto the black and white images with coloured thread.
Artist Annette Kelm (Germany, b.1975) uses a variety of means to deny photography its conventional role. By creating series of near identical works or photographing close-ups of textiles, for example, she reduces the image to a flat surface.
The Photographic Object reflects the Gallery’s commitment to presenting photography in a contemporary context at an international level.
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