Carl Strüwe “Microcosmos”
Steven Kasher Gallery
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Carl Strüwe (1898-1988) produced his first photographs in the 1920s, and is associated with the New Objectivity of Albert Renger-Patzsch and Karl Blossfeldt. Our show presents over 50 photographs from his three-decade long artistic masterpiece: Formen des Mikrokosmos. This set of microphotographs was exhibited in iconic exhibitions including Subjektive Fotografie curated by Otto Steinert in 1951 and The New Landscape in Art and Science organized by Gyorgy Kepes at MIT, also in 1951. The Brooklyn Museum, where Strüwe had a solo show in 1949, said that his photographs “often remind us of modern artists such as Klee or Kandinsky and yet they do not encroach upon the field of painting. Rather they suggest possible sources and explanations for modern abstract art, unearthing a whole world of beauty invisible to the naked eye.” Our exhibition Carl Strüwe: Microcosmos is his first solo exhibition in the United States since 1949.
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Schedule
from April 14, 2016 to June 04, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-04-15 from 18:00 to 20:00