NICOLAS BAIER
April 03, 2008 — May 03, 2008
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Fill, 2007 Nicolas Baier Digital ink-jet print mounted on galvanized steel under Plexiglas
| Vanity No.2 - 31, 2007-2008 Nicolas Baier Edition of 3
| Paesine, 2008 Nicolas Baier Digital ink-jet print mounted on Sintra under Plexiglas
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Reception for the artist Wednesday April 2, 6 to 9 PM
This exhibition includes two bodies of work: a selection of pieces from the artist’s Vanités series recently shown in a special project at the ARCO 08 international art fair in Madrid, and a new series of related work also produced through direct scanning of objects. In this “camera-less” photographic process only surface information is recorded in palpable detail. These images possess an uncannily familiar presence yet convey a strangely disorienting abstract quality. Each image is composed of several scans, which are then digitally ‘stitched’ together by the artist to produce the final image. While Baier is best known for the digital wizardry of his earlier work, these new works are virtually un-manipulated.
Inspired by his work with mirrors, Baier’s thoughts have turned back through photography to painting, where his career initially began. Some of the new works in this exhibition entertain the realm of landscape and the landscape tradition in painting more precisely. Others recall the traditions of modernist abstraction observed by Baier in the most banal surfaces, from a paint-speckled floor to the condensation–stained paper covering a shop window.
Artists:
Nicolas Baier