TUCA VIEIRA – BERLINSCAPES
2011-04-25Drawing on the formal rigor and architectural inspiration of the Düsseldorf School, Vieira creates his own distinctive style. The photographs depict functional architecture but in a nocturnal setting, with sensual lighting. One could describe it as a “tropicalization” of German photography’s rigidity and formality, “Germany meets Brazil”. Made during Vieira’s 2009 artist’s residency in Berlin, this body of work highlights the contrasts and juxtapositions of “old Berlin” and “new Berlin”, revealing traces of not only divergent prosperity, but also the great battles for territorial and ideological conquest that caused it.
Opposite – Berlinscapes #1, Digital C-Print
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
