Clifford-Smith
Gallery is pleased to announce its October 2003 exhibition of
new work by Marco Breuer. After a decade of working in black
and white photography, Marco Breuer has turned his attention
to photographic color material. By subjecting color paper to
a range of erosive treatments, Breuer quite literally forces
color out of the material, turning photography itself into a
physical act.
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Marco
Breuer
C-260
2003
chromogenic
paper, sanded
24"
x 20".
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The
images in And/Or constitute a manifestation of a series of physical
activities and their optical translations. They are created through
a cycle of imaging and re-imaging:: shifts in scale and color, moving
from positive to negative, going in and out of focus - with every
image possibly being the result of a previous one. |
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Marco
Breuer
C-171
2003
chromogenic
paper, sanded
24"
x 20".
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As
the paper gathers photographic and physical information, entropy
is traced: marks degrade, details are replaced by a range
of optical elements - loss of focus, light leaks, over- and
under-exposure, and other indicators of photographic events.
The result is a negotiation of space: the illusionistic space
of photography versus the concrete space of the physical mark.
The final images are in fact without referent in the physical
world.
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Marco
Breuer
C-204
2003
chromogenic
paper, sanded
24"
x 20".
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Marco
Breuer
C-256
2003
c-print
video still from Bloodpour, DVD, 3 min.
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