“Secession Secession” Exhibition

Fitzroy Gallery

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Fitzroy Gallery presents the exhibition Secession Secession, organized by Colby Bird and featuring artists Roger Ballen, Winona Barton-Ballentine, Claude Cahun, Colin Doyle, Nancy de Holl, Kate Drendel, Kyle Knodell, Deana Lawson, Leigh Ledare, William Mortensen and Ben Ruggiero.

Secession Secession is a group exhibition of photo-based artists who combine a keen eye for formal qualities with a pluralism of technique. Through deliberate and often awkward lighting and framing methods, plus a willingness by the artist to confront the act of photographing, these artists address the reflexivity inherent to the medium. This focus on the mythos and artifice of the studio-setup encourages a multi-layered reading of the works — addressing the subject, the artist, and the image itself. Surrealist photographers of the early 1900s provide a historical context for many of these artists, through their presentation of the figure and the emphasis on emotion and sexuality. Many of the works in Secession Secession use the vocabulary of cinema, by drawing attention to human emotion and an often theatrical approach to the representation of reality, with an inclination toward decadent and debased subject matter.

[Image: Kyle Knodell “Tribeca Pediatrics” (2011)]

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from May 04, 2013 to June 30, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00

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