Matt Siber: Logos&Untitled
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Matt Siber: DENNY'S
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The exhibition shows two closely linked cycles by the American Matt Siber. These are photographic works that are concerned with the incorporation and relevance of word and image, form and content. Matt Siber creates large-format photographs of urban motifs, which he subjects to an analytically abstract fragmentation based on the use of texts and images. With his focus on the interplay of signs and symbols in the picture and their significance in a social context, Siber is to be located in the important photographic tradition associated with classic modernism. From Moholy-Nagy to Walker Evans, formal symbols and characters have repeatedly been drawn into photography as thematic elements. In Siber's work this separation is effected digitally, and it gives rise to true masterpieces both in terms of craftsmanship and in his handling of motifs. His works are to be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography and elsewhere.
Artist(s)
Matt Siber
Curator(s)
Philip Glaser
Duration of the exhibition
16.10.2008 - 17.01.2009
Vernissage
15.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Mi-Fr 14-19 h,
Sa 13-17 h
and by arrangement
Location
billirubin gallery
Linienstrasse 127
10115 Berlin
T 0049 30 30881229