Marco Breuer and / or

october 3– 25, 2003 -- Artist reception on Friday , october 5th, 5.30 to 7.30 pm
See Marco Breuer's Feb 2001 exhibition at Clifford-Smith Gallery or view work by other photographers in the gallery

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.

Marco Breuer

C-260

 

2003

chromogenic paper, sanded

 

24" x 20".

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.

Marco Breuer

C-171

2003

chromogenic paper, sanded

 

24" x 20".

 

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.

Marco Breuer

C-204

2003

chromogenic paper, sanded

 

24" x 20".

 

Marco Breuer

C-256

2003

c-print video still from Bloodpour, DVD, 3 min.

For more information please e-mail the gallery or call 617 695-0255.