![]() ![]() ![]() For a major part of piano literature, written between the invention of the fortepiano during the early eighteenth century and the end of the so-called “Golden Years” of pianism just before the First World War, is at risk of fading into obscurity. Much as this is an undisputed canon of masterworks, the consequences of this narrowing are worrying. Due partly to a continuation of their teachers’ preferences, and partly to the constraints imposed by competitions and major record labels, concert programmes tend to be dominated by a well-defined canon of works: it begins with Bach, continues via Beethoven and Schubert (though rarely including Haydn or Mozart) towards Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Brahms, and often ends with Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev. Brandon Lattu – Jenseits des Physisch Möglichen continues our goal of exploring this developing medium in depth.The idea for this exhibition, dedicated to the fascinating world of the piano beyond the mainstream, originated in the observation and experience of piano connoisseurs and enthusiasts that the concert repertoire of many – also young – pianists remains narrow and almost set. In 2006 the Bielefelder Kunstverein showed photographic artists who experimented with different methods of image manipulation in analog photography in order to reveal the structure of a photographic image. His work is in numerous museum and private collections. Brandon Lattu is represented by Leo Koenig Inc., New York, Vacío 9, Madrid, and Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver. He graduated with an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998 and teaches art, photography, and digital imaging at the University of California at Riverside. throughout the rest of the world.īrandon Lattu was born in Athens, Georgia in 1970. This book is published by Leo Koenig Inc., New York and is distributed by Verlag Walther Koenig in Europe and D.A.P. This exhibition is accompanied by the publication of Office Gray Case, an artist’s book showing the deconstruction of a work by the same title in the exhibition. Produced by spreading the sand evenly across a scanner and resulting in an image of twenty by twenty-four inches, the subject is presented in a reproduction of sand with the verisimilitude of pigment through the contemporary digital technology of scanning. Dume, Malibu, California, (2001) is a monochrome painting as well as a sort of photograph of an evocative location. #Jenseits kontakt serialResisting the conformity of a serial practice, Lattu approaches each subject with a process suggested by its implicit characteristics. In these works, Lattu finds a means to counter quantitative stylistic evaluation through objectification of issues of taste. The works Selected Products (2001) and Rejected Products (2002) display boxes of consumer goods presented as hollow, transparent carriers of commercial information, showing the gorgeous, overwhelming, and seductive mixture of branding and decoration used to differentiate the product inside from other competing versions. This form was then wrapped with an image of the interior of the great hall, making the interior of the building the exterior of the sculpture, as well as presenting a model of Vitruvian architecture re-formed by the model of perspective of a camera. Using these photographs, Lattu has digitally produced a form that is a hybrid between the double cube of the buildings’ great hall and the sphere of the cameras’ recording. Looking back to the gestures of direct selection and the provincial grounding of late nineteenth and early twentieth century art, the works in this exhibition utilize photography, sculpture, and video to explore issues of empiricism without generalizing the subject but by carefully specifying individual sites and by presenting multiple vantage points of each subject for the viewer.Ī case in point is Banqueting House (2007), a sculpture made from photographing the complete interior of the famous Neo-Palladian building by Inigo Jones in London. Citing Fox-Talbot and Duchamp as primary influences he has developed a growing body of work that sits squarely between the characteristics of both photography and the readymade. Working in his adopted home of Los Angeles, Lattu has developed a broad body of work that contributes to the understanding of the state of representation today. The Bielefelder Kunstverein is pleased to hold the first survey of works by artist Brandon Lattu held in a European institution. ![]()
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