FLORIS NEUSÜSS – 50 YEARS

Posted on 2021-09-06

The exhibition features work spanning 50 years, including his early experimental photography of the late 50’s and early 60’s when he was a student at the Bavarian State School of Photography in Munich followed by his studies with Heinz Hajek Halke at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. We will of course also show a selection of his iconic Nudograms—Körperbilder—from the 1960s and 70s that were made by exposing the human figure directly onto photographic paper. The proximity of the model to the paper influenced the sharpness of the contours and the amount of light dispensed affected the intensity of the tones. Movement—either accidental or intentional, dissolved and fractured the silhouettes into transcendent forms removed from any sense of time or place.

Opposite – Portrait of Robert Heinecken, 1997

Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2021

Von Lintel Gallery
1206 Maple Ave #212
Los Angeles
CA 90015

www.vonlintel.com

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RUVEN AFANADOR – HIJAS DEL AGUA

Posted on 2021-09-06

In his extensive body of work, Afanador has created an intensely personal language characterized by the balance of bold emotion and delicate nuance. The expressive images in his books and fashion editorials reveal extravagant dreamlike sequences that seem to emerge from Afanador’s original imagination already full grown, always splendid sometimes mischievous, often decadent, all steeped in classic formality. In his portraits, he unfailingly pierces the carefully wrought personnas of the beautiful and powerful symbols of our age to expose their essence with eloquent certainty. In a recurring theme, he juxtaposes startling masculine force and surprising feminine strength to challenge conventional definitions of gender and beauty with confident audacity.

Exhibition runs November 4th, 2021 to January 2nd, 2022

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

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