Christian Chaize “Time and Tide”
Jen Bekman Gallery
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Jen Bekman Gallery presents Time and Tide, an exhibition of photographs by Christian Chaize as well as a book signing. In May 2013, Chronicle Books will publish Time and Tide: Photographs from Praia Piquinia, an intimate and enchanting record of a single Portuguese beach over nine years. During the opening reception, Chaize will sign copies of the book.
Chaize’s series is a playful rendering of the passage of time through otherwise unphotographed (and therefore unobserved) changes to a landscape that is sometimes filled by sunbathers and swimmers, and sometimes by cliffs and surf alone. In the series’ ninth year, the artist developed a new obsession: photographing the beach by moonlight. His new and highly detailed “La Lune” images—composed of more than 4,500 individual photographs, assembled by the artist to create a final image more than seven feet wide and illuminated by light box—allow the familiar moon to fall to earth and engulf the viewer’s vision. By pairing daytime and nighttime images of the beach, the exhibition continues the artist’s tradition of elevating the known into the fantastic.
[Image: Christian Chaize “La Lune 1”]
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Schedule
from April 27, 2013 to June 16, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-04-26 from 18:00 to 20:00