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2020-08-10
Since ancient times, through the Renaissance and up to the present day, artists have recontextualized the ideas, images and styles of their predecessors. In this online exhibition Reverberation, the work of Sharon Core, Ori Gersht, Jitka Hanzlová and Hellen Van Meene raises questions about influence, appropriation, originality and authorship. Utilizing a variety of approaches, each artist draws upon the work of recognized painters to produce photographs that destabilize the distinction between painting and photography and blur the boundary between past and present. All four artists bring the present into contact with the past to create what Walter Benjamin described as “dialectical images”, in which the relationship of past to present is not one of linear time, but of constant negotiation.
Opposite – Early American, Melons and Morning Glory, 2008
Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2020
Yancey Richardson – Online Viewing Romm
525 W 22nd St
New York
NY 10011
www.yanceyrichardson.com