Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibitiions
It's been a couple of months of killer exhibitions in New York; Kandinsky at the Guggenheim, Tim Robbins at the Moma, Man Ray at the Jewish Museuem, David Hockny at Pace Wildenstein and many more. January is off to a good start with two simultaneous showings at the Laurence Miller Gallery next week.
Laurence Miller Gallery is exhibiting 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq's working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.
20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm
Featuring Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Andre Kertesz,
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Helen Levitt, Ramon Masatas, Jerry Uelsmann, Garry Winogrand
Simultaneously being shown is "Body Language", a selection of twenty historic photographs that celebrate the language of forms created by the body in motion. Included are a mid-1970's Garry Winogrand of leaping cheerleaders, the classic 1926 Andre Kertesz "Satiric Dancer", two "divers" by Aaron Siskind from his series "The Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation", a Jerry Uelsmann nude floating over the sea (shown above), and Helen Levitt's wonderful view of two uninhibited children dancing in the street.
20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm
Laurence Miller Gallery is exhibiting 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq's working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.
20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm
Featuring Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Andre Kertesz,
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Helen Levitt, Ramon Masatas, Jerry Uelsmann, Garry Winogrand
Simultaneously being shown is "Body Language", a selection of twenty historic photographs that celebrate the language of forms created by the body in motion. Included are a mid-1970's Garry Winogrand of leaping cheerleaders, the classic 1926 Andre Kertesz "Satiric Dancer", two "divers" by Aaron Siskind from his series "The Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation", a Jerry Uelsmann nude floating over the sea (shown above), and Helen Levitt's wonderful view of two uninhibited children dancing in the street.
20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm
