Barry Frydlender "Travelogue in Pictures"
Andrea Meislin Gallery
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The exhibition will feature seven large-scale color pictures which record Frydlender's passage through four major cities and one small town in northern Israel. All explore the interpretation of visual facts collected on the move, addressing at the same time larger social questions. The digitally reconstructed scenes from Los Angeles, Paris, New York, London, and Nazareth reveal timely issues of ethnicity, migration, class, consumption, culture, race and, finally, the question of what remains of the promise of "redemption."
This continues the core of Frydlender's practice: that of creating a visual record based on the physical and metaphorical combination of reportage and interpretation, one which allows a link to works of historical fiction and seeks to connect the history of the pictorial tradition to social structures of contemporary life.
Distinguishing the elements that characterize his constructed photographs, the artist says in an interview: "One of photography's great limitations is that because a picture is taken in an instant, you can consume it instantly.… Since my photographs are not made like that, you can't consume them all at once," he continued. "They delay understanding."
[Image: Barry Frydlender "Eagle Rock High School" (2011) C-Print 47.25 x 97.25 in.]
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Schedule
from May 05, 2011 to June 18, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-05 from 18:00 to 20:00