Chris Marker
02 April - 04 June 2011
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PASSENGERS
Untitled # 19, 2008-2010
Color photograph mounted on white Sintra
13 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (33.7 x cm)
Printed 2011 |
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CHRIS MARKER
PASSENGERS
2 April - 4 June, 2011
Peter Blum is pleased to announce the exhibition Chris Marker,
PASSENGERS. This exhibition, opening on April 2, 2011, will be presented
at both Peter Blum Soho (99 Wooster Street) and Peter Blum Chelsea (526
West 29th Street). This will be Chris Marker’s third solo exhibition
with the gallery.
The exhibition is comprised of more than two hundred photographs taken
by Marker between 2008 and 2010. The series, which is Marker’s first in
color, are images of passengers traveling on the Paris Métro.
PASSENGERS captures the many private actions and gestures that take
place daily in the public sphere. Mothers cradling their children,
couples whispering intimately, women wistfully staring out the window or
into the middle distance, engrossed in their own personal thoughts. In
several of the shots, we see whole train cars filled with similarly
disengaged people. Taken as a complete body of work, this series very
clearly illustrates the various ways in which people create invisible
walls and boundaries in order to cope with modern urban life. Chris
Marker further to the photographs he takes, enhances, changes or colors
his images on the computer, giving them often an eerie, almost
otherworldly presence.
All of the images will be reproduced in a book published by Peter Blum
Edition, which will be released in conjunction with the exhibition. The
book will feature over two hundred color images with texts by Chris
Marker and Peter Blum.
The exhibition will travel to France where it will be included as part
of the internationally renowned Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie
Festival in the Summer of 2011.
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in 1921, Chris Marker is one of the
most influential and important filmmakers to emerge in the post-war era.
Marker appeared on the Paris cultural landscape as a writer and editor
and also became identified for his uniquely expressive non-fiction
films. Marker began garnering international recognition in 1962 with the
science-fiction short film La Jeté. In the seventies Marker created
documentaries both on the history of the left (Le Fond de l’air est
rouge, 1977) and travel and memory (Sans Soleil, 1982). Marker has also
produced acclaimed media installations, including Owls at Noon Prelude:
The Hollow Men, shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and
presented by Peter Blum at Art Basel Unlimited in 2006, and Silent
Movie, commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1995 and which
subsequently traveled internationally. Additionally, he has been
included in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA PS1
Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;
The Jeu de Paume, Paris; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, and Fundació
Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.
www.peterblumgallery.com
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