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ADAM FUSS
27 January – 14 April 2011
FUNDACION MAPFRE
Paseo de Recoletos 23, Madrid
Free entrance
This Adam Fuss exhibition comprises fifty
images, dating from 1986 to the present
day, including major series as well as the
première of his most recent works. The
selection gathers images that the artist
believes to be among his best. The project
is organized by the Fundación MAPFRE
and Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum and curator of his first survey in the United
States, in close consultation with the artist himself.
Adam Fuss makes photographs of unrivaled beauty and mystery with traditional and
historical photographic techniques. This is all the more unusual at this moment in time
when large format, digitally manipulated color photographs compete with paintings for
our attention. His decision to use the processes for making daguerreotypes, platinum
prints or photograms, for example, is not a statement against technology nor has it
evolved from romantic notions. He explores the best means to create the images that he
has in mind. The results are timeless pictures.
Since 1999, Fuss has worked on a series called My Ghost which concentrates on the
power of memory and loss. He has created an evocative series of haunting images that
capture for instance empty christening gowns and towering columns of swirling smoke.
Fuss used the labor intensive daguerreotype process, abusing it to create blue toned,
ethereal images that seem to contradict the intended permanence of the photographic
method. It is the artist’s sensitivity to marrying image and process that has resulted in
these dramatic pictures of remarkable beauty. A decade later, he has returned to this
series and focused on the tail of a white peacock or a magnificent image of the Taj Mahal
made from a 19th century paper negative he altered.
Born in London in 1961, Adam Fuss initially lived in England and Australia. In 1982, he
moved to New York where he began to make a living as a professional photographer,
documenting contemporary art exhibitions and the work of fellow artists. His artwork is
present in distinguished private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This exhibition will be the first survey
of Fuss’ career in Spain.
Adam Fuss is represented by Cheim & Read, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Timothy Taylor, London and Marta Cervera
Gallery, Madrid.
FUNDACION MAPFRE
Paseo de Recoletos 23 Madrid
Telephone: +34 91 581 61 00
Free entrance
Opening hours
Mondays: 2-8pm
Tuesdays through Saturdays: 10am to 8pm
Sundays and bank holidays: 11am to 7pm
http://www.exposicionesmapfrearte.com/adamfuss/
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