Andreas Gehrke "Forst"
Kris Graves Projects
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+Kris Graves Projects announces FORST, the first New York solo exhibition of photographer Andreas Gehrke. Curated by Kris Graves.
“For that is the distinction we must always make: the forest as a massive collection of trees of all varieties is seen as a resource, not as an environment. Whereas the single or planted tree is seen by most of us as a permanent, carefully tended element of human landscape, valued as an object both of beauty and of sustainable exploitation."
-J.B. Jackson
In this seminal exhibition, Gehrke explores the concept of environmental transformation in various natural landscapes. Shot on a yearly basis in locations both foreign and familiar, these haunting images of deliberately manipulated rural areas evidence the troubling repercussions of forced development and commercial exploitation in the natural world. The quiet isolation depicted in the series offers the viewer a temporary moment of peace within this rapid current of perpetual change, echoing Gehrke's continued personal quest to search for a rooted "sense of place".
Andreas Gehrke was born in Berlin, Germany in 1975. Gehrke's work has been exhibited internationally. He has recently shown at PS1 and Peirogi Brookyln, and had a solo show at Galerie Pierogi in Leipzig, Germany. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
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Schedule
from September 02, 2010 to October 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-02 from 18:00 to 20:30