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Indepth Arts News:
"Beat Streuli"
1999-11-15 until 2000-03-19
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL,
USA United States of America
Swiss photographer Beat Streuli documents the image of people in
urban spaces. He captures people when they are at their most natural
state, when they are not posing for the camera. Streuli uses a
telephoto lens at a distance to catch his unknowing subjects appearing
naturally, without artifice. As is typical for each of his projects, Streuli
has produced for the MCA a series that has its own particularities due
to both the place itself (Chicago) and to the particulars reached by the
artist's work at the time (people in groups, or individuals, etc.).
For
Streuli's first commission at a United States museum, the MCA's front
lobby windows have been covered with transparent, large-scale colored
photographs, so people from the outside are able to see in reverse
what those in the inside see. Streuli's photographic work, including
prints, slide installations, and videos, has been included in numerous
group exhibitions such as the 1998 Sydney Biennial and the 1997
Johannesburg Biennial.
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