NYAB Event - Edward Burtynsky Exhibition

Edward Burtynsky Exhibition

Howard Greenberg Gallery

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In conjunction with the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, the gallery is pleased to present their first exhibitions of work by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. For more than 25 years Burtynsky's work has consistently pushed the boundaries of contemporary photography and social awareness. His large-format color photographs of global industrial landscapes and nature transformed have the capacity to both unsettle and inspire. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery will be an overview of Burtynsky's vast bodies of work, while Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery will focus on his latest series, Monegros.

Edward Burtynsky has turned his lens on some of the world's largest industrial operations. His images explore the complex relationship between industry and nature, finding beauty in unlikely places. His range of subject matter has included the oil industry, mining, tire disposal, ship breaking, the railways, and most recently, dry land farming in Northern Spain.

In September 2010, Burtynsky began photographing agricultural areas in Spain including Monegros, a hilly, semi-desert region with extreme climatic conditions. Drawn to the complex, organic expansion of farming areas, Burtynsky photographed these patterned crop fields from a 2,000 foot aerial view. The resulting photographs are his most abstract work to date. The twisted lines and bold patches of color and texture form patterns which are reminiscent of paintings by Kandinsky, Miro, and Dubuffet, as well as primitive art andcave drawings. The Monegros series is born of a larger series on water which Burtynsky will release in 2013. Burtynsky extensively researches his subjects before shooting, working at sun up and sun down using natural scaffolding and shooting with a large format view-finder camera to capture the grand scale of his subjects.

[Image: Edward Burtynsky "Azerbaijan" (2006) Chromogenic colour print 48 x 60 in.]