Exposición en Lisboa, Portugal
Facing the camera: 1970 to tomorrow
Dónde:
Barbado Gallery / Rua Ferreira Borges 109 - A / Lisboa, Portugal
Cuándo:
28 nov de 2015 - 30 ene de 2016
Inauguración:
28 nov de 2015
Descripción de la Exposición
“Everywhere I look I see the possibilities of seeing something I have never seen before. Contrary to those who think otherwise, nothing has been done before.
A chronology only makes sense when there are enough years within it to see a progression. In my case, there is no evolution, just the years clicking ahead, images that are made of the same subject matter—myself—gradually aging. Yet, and hopefully, the possibilities are endless for creating a difference from one image to the next. I admire painters like Morandi or the documentary record that Atget left behind. I am swayed by nuances within similarities. Make them different—keep them the same: that has been my mantra.
I work in the nude to instill a sense of timelessness in the pictures. Timelessness here means that an image with just the human form and nature in its primal state could conceivably have been produced 500 years ago had
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photography been invented then. We can drift into a past in such photographs that goes well beyond any family tree. Photography is the best time travel vehicle I know. We just have to make sure we keep the planet looking the way it always has. The heaven we’ve been given is here on earth.
While my work stubbornly adheres to the same formulas by the limitations of the narrowness of my scope—the same body over four-and- a-half decades, never clothed: the same arms, legs, hands and feet albeit with an aging face and skin—diversity arrives from bringing the work together in exhibition (…)”
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, from the catalogue's preface
© Arno Rafael Minkkinen
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