Mark Cohen "Lost / Found"
Bruce Silverstein
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Bruce Silverstein Gallery announces representation of the work of Mark Cohen.
The upcoming exhibition, Lost/Found, features Cohen’s work from the 1970s and ‘80s that focuses on the artist’s extensive fascination with minute, cast-off elements of human effects—garbage or other small details—which Cohen makes monumental through his stimulating compositions possessing emotional weight and ineffable meaning. Renowned for his images of cropped figures shot at close range and strobe lit, previous exhibitions have portrayed Cohen as fixated on the human form. Lost/Found focuses on images that are non-figurative, an aspect of the artist’s work that has never before been the subject of an exhibition.
Mark Cohen’s perspicacity enables him to hone in on the slightest detail, aberration, quality, texture, shape, or occurrence; he is innately attentive to the formalistic elements of his subject. Cohen’s use of flash and intense proximity to that which he is photographing brings an immensity and importance to details and events that would ordinarily go unnoticed: pages of a notebook blown open, a matchstick on a crumpled wet coat, a room service tray left in a hotel hallway, an apple core thrown in a corner or ants walking on a stick of gum.
[Image: Mark Cohen "Snow Falling in Building, Flash, February" Gelatin silver print (1979, printed 1979) 16 x 20 in.]
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Schedule
from June 09, 2011 to September 17, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-09 from 18:00 to 20:00