Showing at Candace Dwan Gallery in the The Midtown area.
This event has ended.
Media: Photography
"Secrets and Shadows" will be the gallery's final exhibition.
In an essay by David Kleinberg-Levin, the author states that Meriel "confronts the experience of beauty with something dark, ominous, frightening: something portending storm, catastrophe, even death." Indeed, the largely dark and heavy atmosphere in Meriel's beautiful images of the French northern Atlantic coast summon the weight of its history with many photographs of forgotten, if sumptuous relics of the past, a heavy feeling of a religion known largely through stone, a landscape seen through heavy clouds, and a frozen sense of time. Like Atget, the photographs are largely local documents of Meriel's native Normandy, where he lives and sets up an enormous 11 X 14 inch view camera to create single large negatives. These will produce his generous prints, rich like the landscape itself, with their great weight of silver and platinum.
[Image: Olivier Meriel "Firenze, Tuscany" (2008) silver/platinum print 11 x 14 in.]
© Olivier Meriel , 2008
From 2008-10-28 To 2008-12-17
free
From 10:00 To 18:00
Closed on Mondays, Sundays
Between 6th and 5th Ave. Subway: F to 57th Street
24 W 57th St., Suite 503, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 2123150065
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