PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI’S BIRDS
2019-01-21In Nice, France, a seagull drifts before a clouded seascape, spattered with tones of silver and gray. In a 1999 photograph captured in Delhi, India, a flock of birds desert a craggy branch en masse. Sammallahti’s photographs that paint the bird as the protagonist ultimately reflect the artist’s own fascination with flight, and his itinerant life as a traveler.
Over the course of his storied career, Sammallahti has expressed a profound curiosity for nature and the animals who inhabit it. By turns whimsical and lyrical, the artist photographs the world as a means of understanding his surroundings, and of feeling himself a part of it.
Opposite – Nice, France, 1997
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2019
Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 704
New York
10022 NY
www.nailyaalexandergallery.com
