THE LAST DAYS OF W

Posted on 2009-02-09

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “The Last Days of W” color photographs taken by Alec Soth between 2000 and 2008. Although originally conceived without explicit political intent, in retrospect Soth considers this selected body of work, which spans both terms of George W. Bush’s presidency, to represent “a panoramic look at a country exhausted by its catastrophic leadership.”
Soth’s earlier series such as “Sleeping by the Mississippi,” “NIAGARA,” and “Dog Days, Bogotá” – all subjective narratives containing disenfranchised figures and decaying landscapes – laid the conceptual groundwork for “The Last Days of W.” It provides a wry commentary on the adverse effects of the national administration, perhaps best exemplified by an unwittingly ironic remark that Bush made in 2000: “I think we can agree, the past is over.”

The exhibition runs till March 7th, 2009.

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
10075

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A SHIMMER OF POSSIBILITY

Posted on 2009-02-09

In August of 2004 Paul Graham, who had moved from London to New York in 2002, set out on the first of many trips around the United States to see and photograph the country for himself. This exhibition has been selected from the resulting series of photographic works, which Graham published in twelve volumes as, a shimmer of possibility. Each simple but structurally inventive series includes varying numbers of pictures, from one to more than ten, and provides a vivid glimpse into unheralded moments in the lives of individuals Graham encountered on his travels. A series showing a woman eating a take-out meal or a man waiting at a bus stop transcends its nominal subjects and describes aspects of life that, while ordinary, are imbued by the photographer with affection and curiosity. a shimmer of possibility is a call for attention to the brief, indefinite intervals of life. As Graham has said, “Perhaps instead of standing at the river’s edge scooping out water, it’s better to be in the current itself, to watch how the river comes up to you, flows smoothly around your presence, and reforms on the other side like you were never there.”

The exhibition runs until March 18th, 2009.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York
10019

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TRANSFORMATIONS

Posted on 2009-02-09

Transformations is a photographic portrait exploration by photographer Paul Rowland, a regular contributor to Exit. The images reflect the artist’s interest in not who is in front of the camera, but rather what one could imagine there.
Taken from the past five years of image-making, this show attempts to distill an underlying current of the artist’s process. Often this results in moments of clarity, which can be haunting while retaining a humor that brings a sense of reality to the image where the moments have often been more heavily constructed.

The exhibition runs from February 13th till March 20th, 2009.

136
10th Avenue between 18th &19th street
ground floor
New York
10011
USA

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