Marco Breuer: Circa 1999

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Blurred black spot with red interior, and a silver haze around the edges.

Photograph by Marco Breuer, 1999. Gelatin silver print. Archival slide image. Courtesy the artist.

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Marco Breuer: Circa 1999 will present a solo exhibition of photographs made with non-photographic by this German-born artist who now resides in New York.

Breuer subjects photographic papers to all kinds of abuse, attacking them with belt sanders, razor blades, red-hot heater coils, and mold. The subsequent chemistry of the paper meeting the developer results in an indexical image of the event that has happened to the paper, with often startlingly beautiful results.

Breuer’s work has been recently on view in exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and the Ansel Adams Center and the Museum Of Modern Art, both in San Francisco.

Sponsors

The presentation of Circa 1999 is funded in part by Goethe-Institut Boston. 

Images

Blurred black spot with red interior, and a silver haze around the edges.
Brown bars and stripes, broken through and agitated by silver green marks and linear lines running through them.
Thin jittery brown lines and markings appear to jump around the paper.
Black and brown tones create a landscape-like image made of dark wavy layers.
Haloed pinpricks of light on a black background have the appearance of stars in a night sky.

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