The Art Institute of Chicago May 1–September 6, 2010
Overview:
While avant-garde architecture has frequently inspired today’s art
photographers and video artists, Stanley Greenberg is the first to focus
a documentary-style lens on the subject. Greenberg's luminous
large-scale black-and-white photographs explore avant-garde structures
in the process of being built. Using highly cropped views, Greenberg
captures moments in the assembly of architecture that are rarely evident
in the final building, revealing the complexity of contemporary
construction and the residual visual unfolding of spaces resulting from
these feats of structural gymnastics. Through framings reminiscent of
Lewis W. Hine’s heroic construction images of the 1930s, Greenberg’s
compelling photographs are a celebration of the technologies and
disciplines that have made these awe-inspiring buildings a reality.
Stanley Greenberg. Untitled, Toronto, Ontario,
2005. On display in
the Modern Wing’s Kurokawa Gallery, 13 stunning photographs present a
window into hidden moments of the architectural process and the sublime
structural beauty that lies under the skin of contemporary architecture. Tomado de: http://www.artic.edu
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