ANNE KRINSKY – TIDE LINE THAMES

Posted on 2016-08-15

In Tide Line Thames, Anne Krinsky investigates the shifting riverscape and its architectural structures – embankments, piers and river stairs – between the Thames’ high and low tide lines. Using her photographs of the river and embankments as a point of departure, Krinsky has created a major body of work in several media. The installation includes photographs, large-scale digital scrolls, paintings and projected imagery.

Anne Krinsky creates site-specific installations in response to archived collections. Jessica Clifford writes in the catalogue essay:

“Where in past projects, Krinsky has responded to pre-existing archival material, for Tide Line Thames the artist created her own archive – personal, subjective – by photographing the river and its physical infrastructure over a six-month period, the results of which are also projected here. Rather than beginning from an abstract vocabulary, Krinsky has interpreted the riverscape photographs in several media, in turn an exposition of formal visual relationships and geometric pattern. The works are characterised, paradoxically, by a sense of both fixity – a sitedness in the time and space dictated by the river – and flux, the ebb and flow of its tidal waters. All of the works exist in, and mark out, their own sense of space. As the history of the River Thames is embedded in its structures – the eroding river stairs, tide lines marked upon the embankment by layers of metallic patina and green algae – so is this history embedded in Krinsky’s project.”

Opposite – Lock 1, 2016

Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2016

The Gallery, Thames-Side Studios
Harrington Way (off Warspite Road)
London
SE18 5NR

thames-sidestudios.co.uk

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STEPHEN MALLON – THE S.S. UNITED STATES

Posted on 2016-08-15

Still holding the record that it set in 1952 for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic (fewer than 4 days from New York to La Havre, France), the USS United States now sits forlornly in a dock in Philadelphia waiting. The Front Room Gallery is proud to present “47 Years in Waiting” Stephen Mallon’s 5th solo exhibition at The Front Room. Mallon’s extraordinarily soulful portrait of the great ship combines sweeping views of the rusty hull with intimate interior shots of the walkways and grand ballrooms.

The largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States, The S.S. United States was built in a time of transition. In 1952 intercontinental travel involved long boat trips with steamer trunks and lavish splendor. But, in 1958 commercial jet liners were introduced, and a decade and a half later people were flying across the ocean in a few hours. The spectacular ship had become obsolete. It was docked in 1969 and hasn’t sailed again (yet). In her heyday she carried stars: Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Sean Connery Salvador Dali, and Elizabeth Taylor. Other passengers were royalty (Prince Rainier, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Grace Kelly) and four US presidents (Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton). The S.S. United States was a star in her own right: 70,000 people showed up to see her launch on her maiden voyage. The ship’s 23 public rooms, 395 staterooms, and 14 first-class suites were the height of luxury, in a time when that word was not so over-used. Stephen Mallon’s photographs examine the current state of the vessel, stripped of her finery, in decay yet still elegant.

Opposite – The S.S. United States

Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2016

The Front Room
147 Roebling St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York
NY

www.frontroom.org

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NOGUCHI RIKA – TO THE NIGHT PLANET

Posted on 2016-08-15

In her second solo show at the Loock Galerie, NOGUCHI Rika shows the 28-part series To the Night Planet (2014), photographed in analogue. It was shot from the M29 bus, en route between Charlottenburg and Kreuzberg. An austere conceptual work gives rise to photography that seems almost painterly. It depicts the big city in the light of the night: glaring headlights and streetlights indirectly illuminate the urban landscapes of buildings, in the darkness visible only through their light sources. Specifically and sensitively, Noguchi utilizes photographic techniques such as cross-fade, over-exposure and soft focus. Chance nighttime encounters become poetry. A video (2015) shot at the same time will be shown to accompany the show.

Opposite – To the Night Planet #18, 2014

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2017

Loock Galerie
Potsdamer Straße 63
10785
Berlin
Germany

loock-galerie.de

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