2012/02/25

Animals in Art - Adam Fuss

The aesthetic of me not being there



Adam Fuss,  Untitled, From the series 'My Ghost', 2000






Adam Fuss, Untitled, 2009



Adam Fuss, For Allegra, 2009



Adam Fuss, Untitled, From the series 'My Ghost', 2001



Adam Fuss, Untitled, From the series 'My Ghost', 1999



Adam Fuss, For Allegra, 2009




Adam Fuss, For Allegra, 2009


Adam Fuss, Untitled, 2007



Adam Fuss, Untitled, 1998



Adam Fuss, Love, 1993



Adam Fuss, Untitled, 2003



Adam Fuss, Untitled, 2003



Adam Fuss, Medusa, from the series 'Home and the World', 2010




Adam Fuss, Untitled, From the series 'Home and the World', 2010



Adam Fuss, Alphabet, From the series 'Home and the World', 2010


The aesthetic of me not being there

"One doesn't have complete controle over the individual picture in the way one steps back. The force that makes the picture, the actual construction of the picture is not made by the hand it is made by the law of nature, the form that the nature takes. But one creates the situation that allows to take place. So there is a great degree of taken the helm. But there is also a situation where it is beyond, it is like another world. So there is no way you can do that. I like the aesthetic of me not being there, of the being no helm, of the looking like that there is no one there..."
(Artist's Statement: source)


Watch Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography - Adam Fuss

images found at artgallery, V&A, artnet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Articles:

"So, we are not meant to learn anything from the work but are encouraged at every turn to be seduced by and appreciate the pure wonder and beauty of nature. In this work, as in alchemy, there are accidents that the artist has discovered and exploited." (source: NY Arts)


"Adam Fuss seems to realize that one of the challenges faced by the photographer uninterested in taking pictures of the world's endless complexity is to make the medium's physical properties and processes an exciting part of the final image. (...) One of their achievements is to give the essential wonder of photography -- its capacity for both literal translation and total transformation -- a primitive directness that is also startlingly contemporary, especially as enhanced by a large scale and brilliant color." (source: NYT)



2 comments:

  1. Sophie, you went and did it again! Another great post. I've been with Fuss's work in museums. They pulse. As does your selection here. Mighty thanks. Sharing at word pond, with delight. ~ Donna

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    1. Lucky you! I am still waiting for the opportunity to see his work in a gallery. You have to watch the video I am linking to. It reveals a bit of the process these works go through - it is really magical!

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