RALPH GIBSON
2012-06-11The solo exhibition featuring more than 60 photographs gives insight into the impressive body of work of the artist who, together with Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and others, is among the seminal historic figures who shaped the New York photography scene. Without a doubt, Ralph Gibson is one of the groundbreaking exponents of photographic art and is known above all for his visual mixing of different styles within the medium of photography.
The exhibition will show works from the photographic oeuvre of Ralph Gibson that have been created over a period of 40 years – from the mystic-surrealistic photographs taken from the world-famous series The Somnambulist and works from his series Deja-Vu and Days at Sea, to his recent nudes. Within Ralph Gibson’s body of work, the connecting characteristics of his visual concepts are a pronounced use of powerful black and white contrasts and a distinguishing graininess of the silver gelatine prints. The diversity of motives and subjects does not dampen the mysterious aura inherent in the photographs, blurring the lines between realism, surrealism, expressionism and metaphysic imagery.
Opposite – Untitled, 1968
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
