Saul Fletcher
09 Jan - 15 Feb 2014
© Saul Fletcher
Untitled #271 (Home), 2013
C Print
5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches
Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Untitled #271 (Home), 2013
C Print
5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches
Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York
SAUL FLETCHER
9 January – 15 February 2014
December 18, 2013 – For his seventh solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, English artist Saul Fletcher is presenting thirty new photographs all taken inside the artist’s new abode in Berlin, Germany, over the past year. A fifty-six page, fully illustrated catalog entitled 13 will be published in collaboration with Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, for the exhibition.
After a transitional period of taking pictures outdoors and revisiting early images of friends and family, Fletcher has returned to the familiar construct of his studio wall. This time however, he has taken the wall with him and reinstated it in a new environment. Fletcher “understands his own wall as a sea captain understands the oceanic temperament” (Dan Fox, Nocturama, 2005/2006). Smudges and erasure marks, rough drawings and signs pinned to the wall, a variety of delicate found objects as well as a cast of characters closely connected to the artist are all positioned in front of the wall and compose the fine-tuned vocabulary of Fletcher’s photographs. The artist’s own biography may be the initial inspiration for these images, but it is their universal quality that transforms them into documents of poetry.
Eyes dance imaginative reels across their surface crust, and the walls absorb blows of frustration when events outside their cubic embrace have not been sympathetic to us. They are immovably resolute sentinels, crutches that steady when we wish to stay still. A wall looks flat only to those who are strangers to it. (Dan Fox, Nocturama, 2005/2006)
In addition to numerous solo gallery exhibitions in Europe and New York, Fletcher’s work was most recently featured in the 30th Sãn Paulo Biennial, Sãn Paulo, Brazil, and Les Rencontres d'Arles, Photo Festival Arles, Arles, France (both 2012), and in group shows at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), the Rose Art Museum (2009), the Miami Art Museum (2008), the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006), and the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004)
9 January – 15 February 2014
December 18, 2013 – For his seventh solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, English artist Saul Fletcher is presenting thirty new photographs all taken inside the artist’s new abode in Berlin, Germany, over the past year. A fifty-six page, fully illustrated catalog entitled 13 will be published in collaboration with Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, for the exhibition.
After a transitional period of taking pictures outdoors and revisiting early images of friends and family, Fletcher has returned to the familiar construct of his studio wall. This time however, he has taken the wall with him and reinstated it in a new environment. Fletcher “understands his own wall as a sea captain understands the oceanic temperament” (Dan Fox, Nocturama, 2005/2006). Smudges and erasure marks, rough drawings and signs pinned to the wall, a variety of delicate found objects as well as a cast of characters closely connected to the artist are all positioned in front of the wall and compose the fine-tuned vocabulary of Fletcher’s photographs. The artist’s own biography may be the initial inspiration for these images, but it is their universal quality that transforms them into documents of poetry.
Eyes dance imaginative reels across their surface crust, and the walls absorb blows of frustration when events outside their cubic embrace have not been sympathetic to us. They are immovably resolute sentinels, crutches that steady when we wish to stay still. A wall looks flat only to those who are strangers to it. (Dan Fox, Nocturama, 2005/2006)
In addition to numerous solo gallery exhibitions in Europe and New York, Fletcher’s work was most recently featured in the 30th Sãn Paulo Biennial, Sãn Paulo, Brazil, and Les Rencontres d'Arles, Photo Festival Arles, Arles, France (both 2012), and in group shows at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), the Rose Art Museum (2009), the Miami Art Museum (2008), the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006), and the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004)