Sally Mann. Faces
18 Jan - 23 Feb 2008
The Karsten Greve gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition dedicated to Sally Mann which will be on view from the 18th of January through the 23rd of February 2008. The show will feature the prodigious series of Faces executed between 2000 and 2004.
Terrifying and fascinating all at once, the portraits of the artist’s children (Virginia, Jessie and Emmett), capture the enigmatic expressions of the faces suspending them in time. The framing of these large-format portraits (127 x 101, 6 cm) dramatizes the tension which oscillates between the ephemerality of the moment and its fixation on the print. Their pictorial qualities illustrate the permanence and the fragility of the photograph. Sally Mann’s technique gives life to the works whose skin-like paper seems chipped in certain places, thereby disturbing the image and the harmonious perception of the face.
Sally Man was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia. Her name became familiar amongst admirers of contemporary photography from the end of the 80s thanks to the series entitled “Immediate Family” and “At Twelve” in which she photographed her children. With subject matter touching upon the loss of innocence, death and war, “meditations” upon life, memory and the body, Sally Mann seeks confrontation with fundamental human concerns.
The public has also been intrigued by Sally Mann’s technical virtuosity. She indeed uses old-fashioned photographic techniques such as wet-plate collodion negatives (a procedure invented in the 1850s) with an exposure time of approximately six minutes. These techniques allow one to acquire an impression of fragility and to underscore the painterly quality of these photographs with their specific luminosity and texture.
Her work has been internationally exhibited and is represented in numerous museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York or at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Sally Mann has also been the recipient of several important prizes such as that of the Guggenheim Foundation.
For further information or requests regarding photographic material please contact Celia Fanselow at:
galerie.greve@t-online.de
Terrifying and fascinating all at once, the portraits of the artist’s children (Virginia, Jessie and Emmett), capture the enigmatic expressions of the faces suspending them in time. The framing of these large-format portraits (127 x 101, 6 cm) dramatizes the tension which oscillates between the ephemerality of the moment and its fixation on the print. Their pictorial qualities illustrate the permanence and the fragility of the photograph. Sally Mann’s technique gives life to the works whose skin-like paper seems chipped in certain places, thereby disturbing the image and the harmonious perception of the face.
Sally Man was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia. Her name became familiar amongst admirers of contemporary photography from the end of the 80s thanks to the series entitled “Immediate Family” and “At Twelve” in which she photographed her children. With subject matter touching upon the loss of innocence, death and war, “meditations” upon life, memory and the body, Sally Mann seeks confrontation with fundamental human concerns.
The public has also been intrigued by Sally Mann’s technical virtuosity. She indeed uses old-fashioned photographic techniques such as wet-plate collodion negatives (a procedure invented in the 1850s) with an exposure time of approximately six minutes. These techniques allow one to acquire an impression of fragility and to underscore the painterly quality of these photographs with their specific luminosity and texture.
Her work has been internationally exhibited and is represented in numerous museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York or at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Sally Mann has also been the recipient of several important prizes such as that of the Guggenheim Foundation.
For further information or requests regarding photographic material please contact Celia Fanselow at:
galerie.greve@t-online.de