Michael Benson "Beyond"
Hasted Kraeutler
This event has ended.
In this exhibition, Beyond, Benson presents some of the most extraordinary visual experiences imaginable: a view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io transiting across the stormy face of its parent planet; a closer view of the moon itself, visibly erupting into space; stunning vistas of Saturn and its rings; close-ups of the sun; and a view of an avalanche caught the moment it occurred on Mars. These are solar system vistas that have never actually been seen directly by the human eye; they come to our sight via sophisticated camera systems mounted on the intricate robotic spacecraft launched over the last few decades by NASA and the European Space Agency. Benson mines the vast archives of raw data from the history of robotic spaceflight from the 1960s to the present. He then processes the hundreds of raw frames he has selected into unique portraits of celestial bodies, a process that leads him to refer to the photographs as "mosaics."
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Schedule
from February 03, 2011 to March 26, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-03 from 18:00 to 20:00