The Surface of Things: Andreas Gefeller, Gordon Matta-Clark, Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Plattenbau 4, 2004 (from the series “Supervisions”)
© Andreas Gefeller
Splitting, 1974
© Gordon Matta-Clark
I saw the work of German photographer Andreas Gefeller recently, images from his series Supervisions. I couldn’t help but pair the apartment building interiors with Gordon Matta-Clark’s house splitting projects — must be an influence here? Apparently Gefeller has created some type of harness system (which he straps himself into) so that he can meticulously study and document the spaces from above. Make sure to look at Gefeller’s other photographs from the series, as some of them are pretty astonishing.
As another potential parallel, I feel the need to also share the work of Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga from their series Plan.
Krasińskiego 10/154 (from the series “Plan”)
© Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
detail of Krasińskiego 10/154 (from the series “Plan”)
© Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
All rather interesting ways of looking at and deconstructing how we live. There are plenty more in this vein — anyone have photographers in mind to add to the list?
April 13th, 2007 at 7:46 am
It’s really funny, I was just looking and thinking about Matta-Clark’s work the other day and now it appears somewhere… Check out these two photographers:
Ben Stern works in the same method, except he focuses on locations of childhood memories. His website is: http://www.benjaminstern.com/
&
Georges Rousse (Who works more like Matta-Clark…)
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=georges%20rousse&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
April 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Ben’s “Work Shop” image is really nice. And I haven’t seen Rousse’s work since the Contacts DVD’s. Great stuff, Jeremias, thanks!
April 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
I saw the work of Alain Paiement recently, you might add him to the list…
April 21st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Certainly. The list gets larger…
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
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