Every time I visit London’s Photographer’s Gallery I’m tempted to take a picture in the stairwell where you have a a view of the show posters and through a window to a small, street-overlooking alcove where videos about the current exhibition are shown. One show I was there to see, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, included work by Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad with this lovely textured piece of work I took a close-up of:
Our final morning in Antwerp was spent at the KMSKA (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), which underwent a massive refurbishment for many years. It’s a stunning museum and as you can see I continue to be interested in capturing the spaces, the geometry, the whiteness (and blackness), the symmetry and awe of this cathedral to the beauty of the capitalist art world. Please do click into the images below to see them all full-sized (you may need to click on the post title above first if you’re seeing this in email).
Modern galleries present a lot of opportunities to take stark, geometric pictures.
The James Baldwin exhibit was in Zwirner’s 19th Street gallery. At the 20th Street building, stairwell shown here, we saw an interesting Josef Albers exhibit. Many of his green and grey square paintings reminded me of the work of friend of the family, Gert Berliner.
We saw the incredible work of Charles White upstairs, four monumentally scaled ink and charcoal drawings made by the artist as studies for the figures in his mural Mary McLeod Bethune, completed in 1978 for the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library in Exposition Park, Los Angeles… more
